UK Climate Emergency Blog

The Audacity Of Action

Nelly Semaille: Filling Good Top Tips!

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...

Chris Baines: Urban Wildlife

Apr 18

Chris Baines, one of the UK's leading independent environmentalists, talks to Carbon Copy about our changing attitudes towards urban wildlife and the opportunity for greater connectivity....

John Blowes: Halton Lune Hydro

Mar 30

John is the Director, Project Manager and Chairman of Halton Lune Hydro – a community owned hydro-electric project generating around 750MWh of electricity per year – situated on the River Lune, just...

Keeping Our Heads Above Water

Mar 30

When it comes to flooding in the UK, we seem to be heading for a perfect storm. Sea levels continue to rise. Global warming will cause warmer, wetter winters. Extreme rainfall events both in su...

Karla Ricalde: Sparking Conversations, (Em)powered Communities

Mar 07

Energy underpins most aspects of our everyday lives (I would say all, but I am cautious with absolutes). That is what makes it the perfect excuse to get on to other topics. Energy is often seen as ne...

Jacinta Challinor: Wrexham Green Infrastructure Project

Mar 07

We hear from Jacinta about the amazing work she and her team have been doing in Wrexham, Wales, to improve and expand green spaces for the local community. Recorded for International Women's Day...

1000 Climate Action Stories

Jan 12

We’re working on an ambitious drive to start 2022 with over 1,000 inspiring stories about collective climate action hosted on Carbon Copy. Since we launched in May 2020, our primary aim has been to s...

National Tree Week: The Carbon Community

Nov 30

Recorded for National Tree Week 2021, Charles Nicholls of charity The Carbon Community, explains more about his organisation's fantastic science-focused project based in the Glandwr Forest in Wales.

Hope Is Alive… And Kicking!

Nov 17

It would be easy to feel disheartened by the final watered-down statement, the Glasgow Climate Pact (GCP), signed off by 197 countries at COP 26. Although tougher than previous COP agreements, it doe...

Hannah Garcia: Green Squirrel

Nov 16

Hannah Garcia, of Welsh social enterprise Green Squirrel, tells us about the huge and exciting range of climate and nature-saving intiatives her organisation is working on.

Reflections On Walking To COP26

Nov 09

It has been easy to get wrapped up in the latest announcements from the global climate summit in Glasgow. To be overexcited or hugely disappointed by the headlines of countries that are – or are not...

Crichton Carbon Centre: Why Peatlands?

Oct 26

Back in March, the Crichton Carbon Centre published a blog about why peatlands needed to be on the COP26 agenda. We’ve teamed up with them to give another 5 reasons why these important habitats need...

#ClimateConversations: Cumbria Wildlife Trust

Oct 22

Karl Bartlett, of Cumbria Wildlife Trust's Get Cumbria Buzzing project tells us about the organisation's work to protect and reinstate habitats for bees and other pollinators in the county. Record...

#ClimateConversations: Spenbeck

Oct 14

Becky Valentine of Nottingham eco-office company Spenbeck talks about the challenges of meeting zero carbon in Grade II Listed buildings - and about the exciting climate action happening in her home...

Corporate Offsetting Is Never Enough

Oct 12

In the race to zero, companies are racing to invest in carbon offsetting schemes to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions. More progressive organisations, however, are heading in a different direct...

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