UK Climate Emergency Blog

The Audacity Of Action

Caroline Aistrop: Stroud & Proud

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

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

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 · 3 mins

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

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

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

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

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...

Juliet Staples: Lessons Learnt From Liverpool’s Green Regeneration

Sep 13

Liverpool is a front-runner city in the international EU funded, Horizon 2020, URBAN GreenUP project, whose remit is to retrofit a range of nature-based solutions (NBS) across the city and to monitor...

Hal Rhoades: People And Places Across Time

Sep 05

Launched in the summer of 2019 on a 2,000 acre estate in the Brecon Beacons, Wales, the Penpont Project is the largest intergenerational nature restoration project of its kind anywhere in the world....

Three Words That Could Change The World

Aug 31

What would you say in a few words to those gathered at the next global climate summit? Do our politicians need to be more ambitious or simply keep the promises they’ve already made to reduce greenhou...

The Most Important Place To Be

Aug 18

Last October, I set off from Camden and walked 500 miles to COP26 in Glasgow. Part of a small team of walkers, we wanted to engage individuals and groups more widely on climate action. For humanity t...

Are You Sitting Comfortably?

Jul 21

Can we really be running out of time if we’ve given ourselves until 2050 to get to net zero greenhouse gas emissions? After all, the UK government has a solid net zero strategy in place and a legally...

Inspiration At Your Fingertips

Jun 28

What do all of the following have in common? Native Architects’ new low carbon office, built using locally-grown hemp, straw, wood fibre and cork. A Swift conservation project in the Carse...

Nelly Semaille: Filling Good Top Tips!

Jun 09

What are the five top tips for starting a zero-waste shop in your local area? Carbon Copy speaks with Nelly Semaille, co-founder and co-director of the Filling Good shops in Maidenhead & Windsor....

Claudi Williams: Kicking The Plastic Habit

Jun 07

Stroud District Action on Plastic is a volunteer group that formed following a public talk I was invited to give about my family's experiment of buying no plastic for a year during 2016. Like us, the...

Decade Zero, Year Two

May 22

We celebrate our charity’s birthday on May 22 and Carbon Copy turned two this year. What a rollercoaster the last twelve months have been, from coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions at the start to...

Hetty Key: We Can Do This!

May 09

‘Running Out of Time’ is the longest non-stop relay ever attempted, in the name of climate action. Carbon Copy speaks with Hetty Key at The World Relay about this extraordinary event and what we hope...

Together

May 03

Do we really need people to join together locally to address a global climate challenge? Whether you realise it or not, we've already entered the next phase of decarbonisation in the UK where furt...

Betsy Gorman: Bring Back The Wild

Apr 21

Almost every town has a patch of green: garden, road verge, park, or even the odd tree. Even in our most urban environments people, as a general rule, enjoy this connection to nature and flock to the...

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