CLIMATE CHANGE

Authorities mark a net zero milestone

The UK100 network of climate-ambitious councils has just unveiled its first co-presidents and is looking forward to its flagship local net zero summit next month, explains Polly Billington.

From the first Earth Day in 1970, to Earth's atmosphere exceeding 400 parts per million of CO2 for the first time in human history in 2017, we tend to measure the climate crisis in milestones.

And the milestones keep coming. This month, the Met Office announced the chance of breaching the 1.50C turning point on global heating in the next five years is now 50-50.

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