UK Climate Emergency Blog

The Audacity Of Action

Reallocating Roads

Jun 24, 2020

If cities belong to people, why are we building them for cars? Before the advent of the automobile, city streets were human spaces. They were thoroughfares and public places where people would meet,...

Negative Emissions Technology: Winner 2020

Jun 12, 2020

Did you know that stopping the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not enough to avoid global warming of two degrees Celsius? Emissions cannot be cut fast enough to keep the stock of gree...

Working With Nature

Jun 10, 2020

What does working with nature look like to help protect us from climate change impacts? You might as well as ask, how long is a piece of string? We can do everything from protecting and restoring nat...

Calling Up A Conservation Corps

Jun 08, 2020

Many of our towns and cities are located in biodiversity-rich areas – beside a river, along the coastline or on a floodplain – where the abundance of life favoured the location for settlement. With d...

Blurring The Boundaries

Jun 05, 2020

Architects, planners and we as residents have control over our built environment and have the power to reinvent the role of greenery within our towns and cities. By changing how we design and live in...

Climate Justice

Jun 02, 2020

Why are we talking about climate justice this week? Shocked and appalled by George Floyd’s killing in the USA, it is impossible to remain silent in the face of systemic injustice. It’s critical...

Thinking Big Locally

May 28, 2020

In the post-mortem that will follow the pandemic about what our government should have done differently, we have an opportunity to see things as they should be: to reconsider the fundamental role of...

Build Back Better: Why Climate Mitigation Won’t Do

May 28, 2020

Resilience is defined as our ability to ‘recover’ but not necessarily to go back to how things were before. It’s an important distinction to make. In tackling the current coronavirus crisis and the c...

Seeing The Bigger Picture

May 27, 2020

Will COVID-19 derail or accelerate climate action? A few weeks ago, I attended a thought-provoking seminar by Professor Frédéric Dalsace, Professor of Marketing & Strategy at the International In...

Build Back Better: Who Is Going To Build What?

May 26, 2020

What does ‘building back better’ really mean? Who is going to build what? The principles behind this campaign for our post-COVID recovery in the U.K. are clear enough: our social and economic model s...

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