UK Climate Emergency Blog

The Audacity Of Action

Embracing The Circular Economy

Aug 20, 2020

“Economics is broken,” says Kate Raworth, visionary author of Doughnut Economics. “It has failed to predict, let alone prevent, financial crises that have shaken the foundations of our societies.”...

Asher Craig: Deliberative Democracy

Aug 18, 2020

Deliberative Democracy. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused great disruption to people’s lives and livelihoods. The health and economic impacts have fallen unequally and often hardest on people who a...

Power By The People, For The People

Aug 13, 2020

Energy democracy is an exciting international movement which has been steadily gathering momentum, and is having an increasing impact in the UK. Its revolutionary premise is that energy users shou...

Friends Of Carbon Copy: Friends Of The Earth

Aug 12, 2020

The Carbon Copy team is delighted to have the support of Friends of the Earth in our collaborative work to help speed up local climate action. Whether individuals wear the badge with pride or not, CO...

Green Spaces And Health

Aug 06, 2020

“Wash your hands for the time it takes to sing Happy Birthday twice!” Yes, an unlooked-for benefit of the coronavirus pandemic is that we all know a lot more now than we used to about how to av...

Asher Craig: Social Inclusion

Aug 04, 2020

Having identified the equalities issues endemic to the environmental sector, we have spent the last four years at Bristol City Council learning and acting to address these issues. These will inform o...

Wilful Kindness

Aug 03, 2020

“Humankind”, the latest book by Rutger Bregman, will make you think very differently about your fellow human beings if, like most people, you have a pessimistic view of their true motives. According...

Bicycle Mayors

Aug 02, 2020

We cannot reduce overall carbon emissions and meet legislated national targets without addressing head on the UK’s biggest emitter, the transport sector. The main source of these emissions are the pe...

Can We Walk Away From Owning A Car?

Jul 29, 2020

It’s mind-boggling when you think about it. As much as fifty percent - yes, half - of inner-city land consists of roads and parking spaces, reports the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. In one of the UK’s...

Rob Greenland: How To Build A Movement

Jul 28, 2020

Our aim at Zero Waste Leeds is to build a movement. What exactly do we mean by that? In summary, for us it's largely about engaging with people from across Leeds who want to play a part in us moving...

People’s Green New Deal

Jul 23, 2020

The Green New Deal is an ambitious plan to secure a safe climate and fairer society, by totally transforming our economy. It is not intended to be a single policy, but a bold programme of policies, i...

Asher Craig: Discovering Gold

Jul 21, 2020

There are many existing projects, products, and initiatives in Bristol which help local communities take more effective climate action, including repair cafés, local parks groups, wildlife and f...

Making The Money Work Harder

Jul 16, 2020

Building Back Better is a slogan that’s been painted onto the sides of a pretty diverse collection of wagons, but they’re all on the same trail, and have a similar destination. In essence, it’s about...

Beyond Sustainability

Jul 13, 2020

Conventional economics is degenerative. Business as usual depletes our finite natural resources faster than they can recover and we become inevitably poorer as a result. The exciting idea of ‘buildin...

Friends Of Carbon Copy: Centre For Responsible Business

Jul 10, 2020

Carbon Copy is privileged to receive support and advice from some of the brightest minds at Birmingham University’s Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business. Building the foundations for...

Committed To 100%

Jul 07, 2020

It is entirely possible to transition the energy system of the UK to one hundred percent renewables. Professor Mark Jacobson and team have developed individual roadmaps for 139 countries to transform...

Local Power

Jul 03, 2020

The climate problem is an energy problem. In 2018, almost one-quarter of all net greenhouse gas emissions in the UK were estimated to be from energy supply. Reducing the carbon intensity of electrici...

Friends Of Carbon Copy: ADEPT

Jul 02, 2020

Carbon Copy is delighted to have the support of the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport (ADEPT), who represent Place Directors from county and unitary auth...

From Paris To Home

Jun 27, 2020

What road are we on and how should we travel to get to our destination? The ambition of the Paris Agreement is for humanity to emit no more greenhouse gases than the planet can absorb, by 2050. To ac...

Coming Up For Air

Jun 25, 2020

‘What if we had this sort of air quality not because everyone is forced to sit at home but because we managed the shift to clean transport and energy?’ So said Lauri Myllyvirta, lead author of a C...

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