Climate change and energy

Bluebells in a wood, but the countryside could look very different with climate change. Photo: FreeDigitalPhotos
Climate change: a threat to the countryside
Climate change, caused by increasing greenhouse gas emissions, is the greatest threat to the future of the English countryside. Unless we take strong action to tackle climate change now, it is likely, within a few decades, to alter many of our most cherished landscapes forever.
A low-carbon development, Elmswell, Suffolk. Photo: © RHM Architects / Nick Kane
Our high-carbon economy, based on roads and airport expansion, and energy-wasting new buildings, needs to make way for the kind of low-carbon, carefully planned development which we have long championed.
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