Climate change solutions UK news

• ‘A share in the delight’: the people investing in the UK’s first community-owned solar battery, theguardian.com (May 08, 2026) — Oxfordshire’s Ray Valley Solar already generates clean energy for 7,000 homes, and is now crowdfunding storage to marry daylight with evening demand
• How a London energy co-op is trying to bring power to the people, thenews.coop (Feb 06, 2026) — We speak to Giovanna Speciale, CEO of South East London Community Energy, about its work towards an inclusive transition

• How soil could help us reach climate targets, theconversation.com (Nov 13, 2025)
• “We believe our communities should be benefiting from the transition to renewable energy, not being left behind”, says Highland People’s Power, Dailt Alternative (Oct 22, 2025)
• How Japanese 'tiny forests' are sweeping Scotland, BBC Future (Sep 11, 2025) — Grown using the Miyawaki method, fast-growing miniature forests in the middle of cities can bring surprisingly big benefits for people and the environment.
• Cool Britannia: the heat pumps keeping pace with the UK’s wild weather, theguardian.com (Aug 09, 2025)
• UK may be on verge of triggering a ‘positive tipping point’ for tackling climate change, theconversation.com (Jul 02, 2025)
• Rooftop revolution: Why putting solar on car parks makes sense, cpre.org.uk (May 16, 2025)
• Working less is the most underrated climate solution, sower.world (May 14, 2025)
• Why the British are flooding parts of their coast, Leo Plunkett, Sandy Watt, news.mongabay.com (Mar 19, 2025)

• Peatlands urgently need to be restored for UK to meet emissions targets, theconversation.com (Dec 02, 2024)
• We need a ‘Lucas Plan’ for current military spending on technology - meaning a transition of most of those skills and facilities to green and civilian ends, Daily Alternative (Oct 20, 2024)
• Labour investment in cycling and walking will be unprecedented, says Louise Haigh, theguardian.com (Aug 20, 2024)
• ‘Building something better’: the UK residents retrofitting their homes amid the climate crisis, theguardian.com (Aug 03, 2024) — From weekly skills-sharing to rewilding streets, communities are working to improve the planet while bolstering the health of people
• Five reasons to heat your home using infrared fabric, theconversation.com (Feb 14, 2024)

• Britain’s roofs can be a huge resource for solar energy, theguardian.com (Dec 22, 2023)
• Charity uses carbon credits to make more homes energy efficient and greener – and it’s genius, bigissue.com (Oct 07, 2023)
• Orkney islands to trial electric ferries to cut carbon emissions, theguardian.com (Sep 11, 2023)
• Insulating Britain: while politicians dither, this social enterprise gets the job done, positive.news (Aug 01, 2023)
• Birmingham's Zero Carbon House is doable, scalable and beautiful - and expresses what the "climate majority" want, says Rupert Read, The Daily Alternative (Jul 29, 2023)

• Carbon-busting hemp could help transform Scottish agriculture to zero emissions, The Conversation (Nov 09, 2022)
• No space for a heat pump? Here’s how your whole street could get off gas heating, The Conversation (Apr 11, 2022)

• Coastal saltmarsh 'engineered' to fight climate change, Nov 11, 2021...^[1]
• Electric boilers: a green alternative to heat pumps that no one is talking about, Oct 28^[2]
• Plantwatch: a climate solution is hidden in the hedgerows, Aug 18^[3]

Citizens juries fuel and drive the IPPR's major new report on a "people-powered" plan for the Green Transition, Jul 16^[4]

• 'Love our bogs': UK should harness all its landscapes in fight for climate – report, May 12^[5]
• Blue Carbon – Ocean-based solutions to fight the climate crisis outlines the importance of the UK's seas in helping the UK to reach its goal of net zero by 2050. May 4^[6] The Marine Conservation Society and Rewilding Britain are calling on UK governments to adopt ocean-based solutions at pace and scale by 2030.
• How can cities that rely on consumption recover from the pandemic, while reducing emissions? Here's some good ideas. Mar 24^[7]
• 'Reservoirs of life': how hedgerows can help the UK reach net zero in 2050, Feb 2^[8]

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• Missing in action: natural climate solutions in England's national parks.^[1] Sep 29, 2020
• The climate decade: The UK is full of 'oven-ready' solutions.^[2] Feb 24

'Build local' innovation and citizen power key to zero-carbon goals...^[3] Feb 7

• Ofgem sets out nine-point plan to prioritise climate crisis.^[4] Feb 3
• The power of councils in the climate era by @FutureGov.^[5] Jan 23
• Make big polluters pay for mass tree planting, officials say.^[6] Jan 23

Major shift in UK land use needed to deliver Net Zero emissions, Committee on Climate Change...^[7] Jan 23

• New UK housing 'dominated by roads'.^[8] "... too many highways engineers are still approving roads that do not fully account for pedestrians and cyclists." Prof Matthew Carmona, University College London. Government poll suggests 76% of people think that for the sake of the environment, everyone should reduce their driving. Jan 21

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Self-authoring and self-transforming communities should be our goal. But new citizens need personal development, too...^[1] Nov 20

• Is #GE2019 really going to become the "climate election"? The polls suggest that parties could make it so.^[2] Nov 13
• Technology will not save us from climate change – but imagining new forms of society will.^[3] Oct 28
• The climate crisis issue that no one is talking about? Your gas boiler.^[4] Oct 17
• Cross-sector 'third spaces' incubate social, climate solutions.^[5] Oct 9
• Riba Stirling Prize: Norwich council estate wins architecture award.^[6] Oct 8
• CAT - New hub and innovation lab to share zero carbon solutions.^[7] Jul 29
• Much shorter working weeks needed to tackle climate crisis.^[8] May 22

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