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The Audacity of Action
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Local Power
The climate problem is an energy problem. In 2018, almost one-quarter of all net greenhouse gas emissions in the UK…
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Friends of Carbon Copy: ADEPT
Carbon Copy is delighted to have the support of the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport (ADEPT),…
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From Paris To Home
What road are we on and how should we travel to get to our destination? The ambition of the Paris…
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Coming Up For Air
‘What if we had this sort of air quality not because everyone is forced to sit at home but because…
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Reallocating Roads
If cities belong to people, why are we building them for cars? Before the advent of the automobile, city streets…
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Negative Emissions Technology: Winner 2020
Did you know that stopping the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not enough to avoid global warming…
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Working With Nature
What does working with nature look like to help protect us from climate change impacts? You might as well as…
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Calling Up A Conservation Corps
Many of our towns and cities are located in biodiversity-rich areas – beside a river, along the coastline or on…
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Blurring The Boundaries
Architects, planners and we as residents have control over our built environment and have the power to reinvent the role…
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Climate Justice
Why are we talking about climate justice this week? Shocked and appalled by George Floyd’s killing in the USA, it…
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Thinking Big Locally
In the post-mortem that will follow the pandemic about what our government should have done differently, we have an opportunity…
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Build Back Better: Why Climate Mitigation Won’t Do
Resilience is defined as our ability to ‘recover’ but not necessarily to go back to how things were before. It’s…
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Seeing The Bigger Picture
Will COVID-19 derail or accelerate climate action? A few weeks ago, I attended a thought-provoking seminar by Professor Frédéric Dalsace,…
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Build Back Better: Who Is Going To Build What?
What does ‘building back better’ really mean? Who is going to build what? The principles behind this campaign for our…