UK Climate Emergency Blog

The Audacity Of Action

July 29: An Unwanted Date

The idea of ‘overshoot’ is simple enough. When we don’t pay enough attention and go past an intended stopping point, that’s overshoot. Taking this concept further, there’s such a thing as an ‘Earth O...

Luca Tiratelli: Why We’re Looking For Local Solutions

Jul 27

Thinking of climate change through a local lens can help us find practical solutions and stop searching for silver bullets. Climate change is the defining issue of the 21st century. It will impact...

Walk2COP26 Meet The Team

Jul 22

500 miles from London to Glasgow. 6 walkers. 26 days on the road this October, arriving in time for the start of the global climate summit. But why on earth are they doing it? Let’s hear from eac...

Picture This: Conversations

Jul 13

Land Use, Food & Agriculture Recorded as part of the launch event for our Picture This: exhibition. The fifth and final photograph selected by guest host Atul Kumar was by Grow Batheaston....

Looking Beyond Glasgow

Jul 08

The global climate summit in Glasgow this November (COP26) is being described as the most significant climate event since the 2015 Paris Agreement. It’s an opportunity to refocus policy makers’ and p...

Picture This: Conversations

Jul 06

Biodiversity & Nature Recorded as part of the launch event for our Picture This: exhibition. The fourth photograph selected by our guest host Atul Kumar was by The Mersey Forest. In this p...

Welcoming Our New Trustee Claudia Jaksch

Jul 01

We are delighted to announce the appointment of a new Trustee, Claudia Jaksch to the Carbon Copy team. Claudia, a seasoned policy expert, is Chief Operating Officer and Head of Sustainability at the...

Picture This: Conversations

Jun 29

Carbon Zero Transport Recorded as part of the launch event for Carbon Copy's Picture This: exhibition. The third photograph selected by guest host Atul Kumar was by Car-Free Norwich. In this p...

Picture This: Conversations

Jun 26

Circular Economy Recorded as part of the launch event for Carbon Copy's Picture This: exhibition. The second photograph selected by guest host Atul Kumar was by East Belfast Mission (EBM). In...

Picture This: Conversations

Jun 24

Renewable Energy On June 17, 2021, Carbon Copy launched Picture This: with an event hosted by Trustee, Ric Casale, and environment presenter and author, Atul Kumar. Atul had the challenging ta...

Pictures to warm your heart (not the planet!)

Jun 23

Writing this on a ridiculously wet Monday morning in June, I can think of nothing more uplifting than to wander through the newly-opened online gallery of Carbon Copy’s Picture This: photographic exh...

Lucy Stone: Between Doom & Utopia

Jun 08

The fragile parameters within which human life on this lonely planet has flourished are already starting to tip. As we hurtle through space on trajectories beyond our control, the life support system...

Lucy Stone: Commoning Our Way through the Climate Crisis

Jun 01

The pandemic has forced a retreat into our homes in the grand finale of our atomisation and separation from nature, which started with the enclosures. Physically distanced, with the fragility of the...

Are Cows Worse Than Cars?

May 26

Which is the bigger contributor to climate warming, cows or cars? To answer this question, it’s helpful to unbundle greenhouse gases into their main constituents and recap how we (should) compare the...

Seize The Moment

May 24

“We find ourselves in total alignment about what needs to be done. We need to level up, we need a greener economy and, my God, we should not waste this opportunity." Tony Danker, the director...

Year One, Decade Zero

May 17

Carbon Copy is one year old this month. Born on 22 May, out of the climate emergency, our aim is to accelerate local climate action through faster learning, copying and joining of forces. We’ve been...

Spring To Action

Apr 27

Spring is when you feel like whistling, even when you get caught in the rain. It’s no coincidence that we have a bounce in our step this season: the arrival of Spring reminds us how much our menta...

UNLESS

Apr 19

And all that the Lorax left here in this mess Was a small pile of rocks, with one word... UNLESS. Whatever that meant, well, I just couldn't guess. A lot of remarkable things happene...

Picture A Carbon Zero Future

Apr 12

This week we have launched submissions for our first ever online photography exhibition. Picture This: will showcase images of collective action from across the country, covering a broad range of app...

How to... raise funds for your community initiative

Mar 30

Funding is a key element required to launch a successful community initiative. In this bitesize interactive session, we get top tips on securing the financial support you need, from Richard Tynen, Di...

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