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3 weeks ago | 
pointtopoint.co.uk | Frank Yeo |Sophie Davies
Trebudannon looked magnificent on a sunny afternoon with the course pattern rolled and immaculate fences a credit to the team led by Paul Hancock. The going was good with the back straight called good to soft. Runners were just enough to provide competitive racing and punters backing 3 favourites left smiling.
Josh Newman scored another three timer but was pushed by in form improving combatants and needed all his tactical skills to score.
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3 weeks ago | 
gasoutlook.com | Sophie Davies |Nicholas Cunningham
Opinion AfricaGasEmissions After at least three fires and blasts on oil and gas pipelines were reported in the space of the last week in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta, a debate has reopened into corporate responsibility for ageing oil and gas infrastructure.
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1 month ago | 
gasoutlook.com | Sophie Davies |Nicholas Cunningham
Opinion AfricaGasPipelines The construction of the massive East African crude oil pipeline (EACOP) that will cross Uganda and Tanzania has served to highlight the vulnerabilities of women to fossil fuel development, in spite of the female empowerment claims made by the oil and gas firms themselves, new research reveals.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
thisislocallondon.co.uk | Sophie Davies
This article was written by one of our Young Reporters, a scheme that gives 14 to 18-year-old school students a chance to write for a real newspaper. Find out more at the Young Reporter website. Lyme Regis is a charming seaside town, located on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England. Known for its stunning beaches and picturesque views, it is a dream for those seeking natural beauty and tranquillity.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
thisislocallondon.co.uk | Sophie Davies
This article was written by one of our Young Reporters, a scheme that gives 14 to 18-year-old school students a chance to write for a real newspaper. Find out more at the Young Reporter website. Andy Parsons’ comedy tour, Bafflingly Optimistic, is a laugh-out-loud journey that expertly combines British wit with hilarious social observations.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
gasoutlook.com | Sophie Davies
After two weeks of tense negotiations, this year’s U.N. summit COP29 delivered a deal on climate finance of $300 billion annually by 2035. The fraught deal came two days past deadline, after significant wrangling between nations, in Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku. It replaced a previous goal of $100 billion annually, which was contained in an earlier draft COP29 text.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
gasoutlook.com | Sophie Davies
(Baku, Azerbaijan) — A little-known but highly toxic greenhouse gas called tropospheric ozone poses a risk to human health and a threat to crops and forests, a group of researchers told delegates at COP29 on Thursday. Tropospheric ozone is not emitted like many other gases and particles, but rather formed in the atmosphere when sunlight interacts with a suite of other pollutants including methane and nitrogen oxides, they explained.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
gasoutlook.com | Sophie Davies
(Baku, Azerbaijan) — Fossil fuel subsidies remain at an all-time high and funding for fossil fuel-prolonging projects quadrupled between 2021 and 2022, researchers said in a briefing warning COP29 negotiators. The new Climate Action Tracker (CAT) report, published this morning — on Day 4 of COP29 in Baku — said that emissions targets are unlikely to meet the Paris Agreement goal as a consequence.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
gasoutlook.com | Sophie Davies
(Baku, Azerbaijan) — UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday called for early warning systems to protect people from extreme heat in what he described as this “era of climate catastrophe.”“This is on track to be the hottest year in the history books. It has scorched countries and communities with temperatures that push the limits of human endurance,” he said in an address at COP29 in Baku.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
gasoutlook.com | Sophie Davies
(Baku, Azerbaijan) — New research released on Wednesday saying that emissions from fossil fuels have reached a record high in 2024 has added a sense of urgency to negotiations at COP29 in Baku. Fossil carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are expected to reach 37.4 billion tonnes in 2024, up 0.8% from 2023, according to the Global Carbon Project report, which is produced annually by a team of more than 120 scientists.
