The World Monuments Fund has recently released its ‘Watch List’ report which sets out the world’s 100 most endangered monuments.
Monuments and sites at threat from global warming, include:
Herschel Island in Canada, home to an ancient Inuit sites (rising sea levels)
Captain Scott’s base in Antartica (increase in snowfall)
The award-winning Rufflets Country House Hotel will be certified as CarbonNeutral® from 1 June 2007 making it the first official CarbonNeutral hotel in Scotland. Read more here.
Reuters reports that “Costa Rica aims to cut its net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2021, President Oscar Arias said on Thursday, in a push to make the tiny Central American nation the first to offset all its carbon. Here’s the big goal, which I am personally declaring for the first time tonight. By [...]
The Bollywood Oscars have been held in Yorkshire which has attracted approximately 30,000 visitors spending an estimated £10m. The International Indian Film Academy have tried to make the event carbon neutral. Read more in the Guardian newspaper.
