Looking North: Northern England and the National Imagination (Studies in Popular Culture)

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The UK has continued to work with other countries to deliver on the Glasgow Climate Pact and drive further action. At COP27, under Egypt’s Presidency, Parties agreed under the Sharm El Sheikh Implementation Plan to maintain momentum and ambition for ocean-climate action, building on the Glasgow Climate Pact, by improving the annual dialogue process, encouraging national ocean-based action, and recognising the impact of climate change on the cryosphere. People The scene encapsulates the bustling nature of life on and around the busiest stretch of the Grand Canal. Rialto was the commercial (as well as the geographical) centre of Venice housing the largest markets in the citywhich were frequented by each and every citizen. On either side of the bridge, and on it, rows of shops sold luxury goods, both manufactured in the city itself and imported from the east. The principal markets were situated on the far quay; these were the Fabbriche Nuove and Fabbriche Vecchie, to be found just behind the Palazzo Carmelenghi, the upper storey of which can be seen protruding above the left slope of the bridge; the fabbriche themselvescan be best seen in the pendant (see fig. 1) which represents the full façade of the Fabbriche Vecchie and the corner of the Fabbriche Nuove. Just behind them are the Pescharia (fish market) and the Erberia (greengrocers market). On the near (eastern) quay of the present work, and behind it, were the major banks, insurance companies and tax offices and here many of the richest bankers built their palazzi, right next to their businesses; the large palazzo just over the small bridge at the right of the composition, for example, was built for the Dolfin family of bankers to a design by Venice's leading Renaissance architect Jacopo Sansovino; more latterly, it housed the Venice branch of the Bank of Italy.

We recognise that the growing interest in the Arctic, together with the need for wide cooperation on Arctic issues, has led to the development of a number of Arctic conferences, including the Arctic Circle Assembly, Arctic Frontiers, and Arctic Futures to name but a few. These events provide valuable opportunities for discussion and the sharing of ideas and learning for the benefit of all. The UK will continue to encourage engagement in such meetings, bringing together academics, civil society, scientists, businesses and governments. 2. Protecting the climate, people and environment The pendant to the present work, View of the Rialto Bridge with the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi, is the only signed painting of these four. The topographical accuracy of the Bayonne and Berlin drawings led Morassi to assume that Guardi drew the scene in situ, closely observing the relationship between the various buildings. It is true of both the Louvre and Bayonne/Berlin drawings that the atmospheric light, created by the broadly applied wash, and the figures, formed with confident dabs of ink, recall Canaletto's early painting and drawing style and it is clear that Guardi was consciously imitating Canaletto's more youthful works. 12 It is also true that Guardi's early 'Canalettian' phase is indebted to the elder painter's early pictures, themselves characterised by a concentration on atmosphere and ephemeral weather conditions, rather thanto the more stilted and schematic style of Canaletto's output after his return to Venice from England in 1755, themoment Guardi was just starting out as a painter of vedute.You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. Compare Standard and Premium Digital here. The UK looks forward to developing this approach across other areas of Arctic research, and we hope that there will be further opportunity for similar collaborations in the future. Environment, biodiversity and nature Marine conservation The UK aims for a prosperous Arctic, where economic and commercial development is achieved in a way that is safe, responsible and sustainable. The people who live in the Arctic should benefit from increasing prosperity in the region.

Climate change will continue to have a devastating impact on Arctic ecosystems and communities, with increases in the frequency and intensity of rapid sea-ice loss events, melt events on the Greenland Ice Sheet, wildfires and permafrost thaw. Unique ecosystems are at risk and some are vanishing, and the change in climate is threatening the subsistence, harvest-based livelihoods of small Arctic communities – especially Indigenous communities. The UK government is committed to working with partners to ensure that effective governance, and environmental protections, are in place to regulate ships operating in Arctic waters. Visual Magnitude: This is the astronomer's scale for measuring the brightness of objects in the sky. The dimmest object visible in the night sky under perfectly dark conditions is about magnitude 6.5. Brighter stars are magnitude 2 or 1. The brightest objects get negative numbers. Venus can be as bright as magnitude minus 4.9. The full moon is minus 12.7 and the sun is minus 26.8. Looking north, the Rialto Bridge is seen from the Fondamenta del Carbon. To the left, or west, the Riva del Vin terminates in the Palazzo dei Dieci Savi at the foot of the bridge. At the extreme right is the corner of the Gothic Palazzo Bembo; the eye is led up the Fondamenta del Carbon, over a small bridge that crosses the Rio di San. Salvatore, and straight into a colonnade under the imposing Palazzo Dolfin-Manin. Beyond the palazzo, leading up to Rialto, is the Riva del Ferro. The point from which the pendant is painted can just be made out under the arch of the bridge at the extreme left. The low white house seen there is probably the same that features in the extreme lower left corner of the pendant (see fig. 1).Over the month, Saturn's brightness will diminish a little from magnitude 0.7 to 0.85. Viewed in a telescope during November Saturn will show an apparent disk diameter of 17.4 arc-seconds, and its rings will span nearly 41 arc-seconds. Climate change poses an existential threat to the Arctic as we know it, and to the people that live there, and changes in the Arctic will have implications for the rest of the world. The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) ‘Arctic Climate Change Update 2021 report’ [footnote 2] highlighted that the increase in Arctic annual mean surface temperature between 1971 and 2019 was three times higher than the increase in the global average during the same period. Further research has indicated the Arctic is now warming four times higher than the global average.