UK Climate Emergency Blog

The Audacity Of Action

Lisa Ashford: Five Innovative Funding Tips

Here are five innovative ways to raise flexible and affordable finance from the community to enable groundbreaking initiatives to scale and grow. All around the UK, there are small, community-led...

Sam Baker: Climate Action Needs Company

Sep 02

I’ve been working on a project called the Goal 13 Impact Platform for over a year. It’s an initiative formed by the CBI, A4S, Chapter Zero, the Met Office, Dell, and Deloitte to create a free and ope...

Becky Baines: Back To School

Sep 01

Imagine you are eight years old again. Imagine seeing photos of burning forests and words such as "CODE RED for humanity". Imagine living in fear of the Earth ending. Now reflect upon the fact...

Climate Avengers, Time To End Your Games

Aug 25

Marvel’s ‘Avengers: Endgame’ is the biggest grossing film of the 21st century, ending the long story of several main characters in a climactic battle to save the universe from destruction. Superheroe...

Where Ambition Leads To More Action

Aug 10

As the UN's IPCC report on climate change sounds 'code red' for the planet, we can see that local authorities with more ambitious climate action targets and plans in place have also been more effecti...

Walk2COP26 London To Glasgow

Aug 03

I have bought a decent waterproof jacket. And I have bought an extra battery pack for my old iPhone. Both objects say a lot about the long-distance walk that I will be attempting with the rest of the...

July 29: An Unwanted Date

Jul 29

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...

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