UK Climate Emergency Blog

The Audacity Of Action

Friends of Carbon Copy: Climate Emergency UK

Dec 01, 2023

It’s one thing to have a plan of action and another thing to act on the plan. Climate Emergency UK, working with a team of trained volunteers, independently assessed all UK councils on their progress...

Circular Season’s Greetings

Nov 20, 2023

It’s that wonderful time of year, when, regardless of cultural background, many families are getting together, eating and drinking more, buying gifts for one another and generally enjoying the festiv...

Freya Stuart-Hopkins: The Force of Fungi

Oct 02, 2023

I don't know what you were doing during September’s unprecedented heatwave in the UK, but I was on the hunt for mushrooms. No not the kind you’re thinking of; but perhaps even more magical. Whilst...

Bucking Trends, Punctuating Equilibrium

Sep 21, 2023

We’ve recently published the latest release of greenhouse gas emissions data from the Department for Energy and Net Zero Strategy (DENZS, formerly BEIS). This time around, we’ve conducted some new an...

Seeing Red

Jun 20, 2023

From a young age we are taught that different colours have different meanings. Blue is a cool, calm colour. The colour of sunny, cloudless skies and beautiful crystal seas. Red is a hot, angry...

Count Me In

May 25, 2023

Perhaps you were one of the 6 million people who took up hundreds of thousands of volunteering roles on the extra May bank holiday as the coronation festivities concluded with the ‘Big Help Out’. Thi...

Decade Zero, Year Three

May 22, 2023

It’s a good thing we don’t have to depend on the UK’s independent Climate Change Committee for encouraging news! The CCC’s purpose is to report to Parliament on government progress made in reducing g...

Sophie Marple: From Anxiety To Action

May 01, 2023

We spoke to Sophie Marple, co-Founder of Mothers CAN, about how to stay hopeful in the face of eco-anxiety. Read on for her thoughts, or watch the video above for the full conversation. ‘I had don...

Friends of Carbon Copy: Climate Cymru

Apr 03, 2023

Carbon Copy is proud to be member of Climate Cymru’s growing network of over 300 organisations from every sector in Welsh society, and part of a movement of over 14,000 individuals from across Wales,...

All That Nature Holds

Mar 20, 2023

In Zen Buddhism, a 'koan' is a surprising and often perplexing phrase that makes us think twice. One of the most familiar koans is the simple question, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is ar...

Connie Muir: Croydon Community Energy

Mar 08, 2023

We spoke to Connie this International Women’s Day about her journey from working in the energy sector to founding and running a renewable energy cooperative. My name is Connie Muir. I'm based in C...

23 Community Actions In 2023

Feb 20, 2023

People who are worried about the impact of climate change – which is three-quarters of the population in the UK – are asking, “what can I do?” and too often receive answers that are clichéd and consu...

Caroline Aistrop: Stroud & Proud

Jan 20, 2023

When I first moved to Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1988, national journalists were arriving at the railway station and asking taxi drivers to ‘take me to the trees’. The drivers knew exactly where to...

CC Impact Report 2022: Glimmer Of Hope

Dec 21, 2022

Political and economic turmoil in the UK overshadowed a more disturbing theme running through our seasonal statistics this year. During winter storms, record-breaking winds caused major travel chaos...

Coal Was The Future Once

Dec 08, 2022

The UK government has announced that it intends to build a new coalmine, the first in three decades, at Whitehaven in Cumbria. A decision that has received objections locally as well as across the co...

Biodiversity Is Not An Afterthought

Dec 02, 2022

We never lost our dependency on nature; we just forgot to think about it. Our entire way of life is built on a foundation of natural resources and sustained by essential ecosystems. Biodiversity – th...

From Grief To Leadership

Nov 17, 2022

Same question, different pundits. What did you think about the outcomes from this year’s global climate summit COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh? Above all, we apparently want to hear analysis of technocratic...

Join Us On The Global Stage

Oct 20, 2022

As I write this, the longest ever non-stop relay is well over half way along its route from Glasgow (the host of last year’s global climate summit, COP26) to Sharm El-Sheikh (the host of COP27 in Nov...

Possible To Do, Impossible To Ignore

Sep 30, 2022

Thousands of runners are joining a record-breaking relay effort to pass a baton 7,767km through 18 countries. The baton contains a climate message that will be delivered to world leaders in November...

Sue Riddlestone: 3 Top Tips for a Successful Built Environment Project

Sep 27, 2022

To mark the 20th anniversary of BedZED, and the visit of the Running Out of Time relay race, we reflect on what made it a success. Starting a new project can be daunting, especially when you’re at...

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