What Went Right This Week: The Good News That Matters

What Went Right This Week: The Good News That Matters

What Went Right This Week: The Good News That Matters World’s marine protected areas are ‘succeeding’, a giant bird could be coming back to London, and learning an instrument ‘slows’ ageing, plus more good news This week’s good news roundup Policymakers got a climate action wake-up call The general public is more in favour of climate action than policymakers think, according to fresh research by academics at the University of Oxford, England. The team asked attendees at the United Nations Environment Assembly to guess what percentage of the global population would give up 1% of their salary to help fix climate change. The work built on previous research which revealed 69% of people would be in favour. The UN attendees, however, guessed at 37%, pointing to a perception mismatch.  Study authors said the skewed view could be hampering policymaking, suggesting leaders are throttling their climate ambitions based on a misconception.  “I hope our research encourages policy officials to be braver a…