UK Climate Emergency Blog

The Audacity Of Action

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...

Seeing Red

May 08, 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...

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...

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...

Juliet Staples: Lessons Learnt From Liverpool’s Green Regeneration

Sep 13, 2022

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, 2022

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, 2022

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, 2022

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, 2022

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...

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