UK Climate Emergency Blog

The Audacity Of Action

Possible To Do, Impossible To Ignore

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...

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...

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