8th meeting of the ESPOO Convention working group on SEA and EIA; draft guidance on assessing health impact in SEA
in Geneva today… http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=50466 
Are electric vehicles really so climate friendly?
This does not raise the important point that motor vehicles are responsible for e.g. respiratory diseases in cities. – But it does support the argument that the CO2 issue is unlikely to be solved by technology alone. It will require behavioural change, too. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/25/are-electric-vehicles-really-so-climate-friendly?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0dyZWVuTGlnaHQtMTkxMTI1&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=greenlight_email&utm_campaign=GreenLight
“Many managers don’t know what to do,” he says, and when they are “unsure of their role”, they respond by generating more meetings‘…
‘…the rise in meetings reflects changes in the workforce – with fewer people doing and making things and an increase in those involved in “meetings-intense” roles such as strategists, advisers, consultants and managers’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-50418317
“There is no reason to fear low-skilled migration.”
Nobel prize-winning economist Esther Duflo says “the effect of low-skilled migration on low-skilled wages is zero”. pic.twitter.com/VILxSCtBsO
Climate change impacts…
… of a different type… soils and underground drying up… https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2019/11/13/climat-d-un-projet-de-vie-a-la-maison-de-la-poisse-pour-les-proprietaires-d-une-maison-fissuree_6018925_3244.html
Thomas B Fischer 