Community climate action UK
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of UK community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism in response to Climate emergency. Learn about how communities positively impact through different projects and collaborations. The majority of our information about this is collated via our place pages ...Near you. Climate action resources UK, Climate change solutions UK and Climate change solutions UK news are separate pages.
News[edit | edit source]
The UK’s international commitments on climate and nature could soon become law – and better protect our environment, theconversation.com (Jan 22, 2025) — Climate and Nature Bill (CAN Bill), includes a climate and nature citizens’ assembly- At Extinction Rebellion, we aimed for UK net zero in 2025. That won’t happen – so here’s what to do instead, Rupert Read, theguardian.com (Jan 01, 2025) — With the climate crisis hitting Britain, we must build resilience at a local level by rewilding, saving water and fighting floods
- Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds, theguardian.com (Dec 11, 2024)
Video[edit | edit source]
Events[edit | edit source]
February, 2024 — Show the love, every February, growing public support for climate action through local events, heartfelt conversations and green heart craftivism in every corner of the country, theclimatecoalition.org- Jun 7 - 15, 2025 (Sat-Sun) — Great Big Green Week, celebrating communities taking action to tackle climate change and protect green spaces, greatbiggreenweek.com
Networks and support initiatives[edit | edit source]
- Mothers CAN, UK-based network of mothers set up at the beginning of 2020, bringing local groups of mothers together, facilitating discussion of the climate crisis, and supporting groups to identify where they can best direct their energy to cause positive change in their communities. added 18:49, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
- Champions for Earth, Green Recovery Letter, September 2020, open letter to the Prime Minister and UK Government, calling on them to prioritise the environment in their recovery from the COVID pandemic, supported by over 310 GB Olympians and Paralympians, including over 40 Olympic and Paralympic Champions added 14:19, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
- UK Students Climate Network on facebook
Climate justice
- Cop26 coalition, Climate Justice Movement at COP26, added 10:59, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
Place-based Climate Action Network
Place-based Climate Action Network (PCAN), an ESRC-supported Network bringing together the research community and decision-makers in the public, private and third sectors.
Find your place, pcancities.org.uk, opportunities for cities, LEPs, local authorities, country or regions. Opportunities to reduce energy use and carbon footprints while cutting energy bills, creating jobs and creating a wide range of other benefits.
UK Youth Climate Coalition
The UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC) is a non-profit youth organisation in the United Kingdom. It is part of The Climate Coalition in the UK
Formed in 2008, the mission of the organisation is to mobilise and empower young people to take positive action for global climate justice. To achieve this, the UKYCC organises a series of projects, campaigns and events each year, including sending youth delegations to the United Nations Climate Negotiations.
The organisation is supported by a coalition of non-governmental organisations.
Organisations supporting community action
- Climate Majority Project, "...provide funding and expertise to initiatives working to bring serious climate action into the mainstream. The Incubator gathers funding from visionary ‘investors’, to support entrepreneurs of citizen climate action with essential finance, strategic and practical input, and access to a network." added 10:20, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
- Rights Community Action, "coalition of campaigners, lawyers, planners, facilitators, writers and scientists, united by a shared commitment to tackle the Climate Emergency – with people and for people, and the environment." added 16:47, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
Arts, sport and culture
- Letters from the Global South, "Educational workshops on climate change for community-led environmental action", "...committed to amplifying the voices of communities that are underrepresented in the environmental movement through the promotion of these environmental initiatives at the local and national level.", added 10:36, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Visions[edit | edit source]
- Dreams of a Low Carbon Future, downloadable pdf's via lowcarbon.leeds.ac.uk, added 16:09, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Community action projects[edit | edit source]
Climate emergency centres
Climate emergency centres are about a coming together and building of relationships in a common space, sharing resources, skills and ideas to build community resilience and adaption to multiple social and environmental crises.
Climate assemblies
This article is an offshoot or our Citizens' assembly page. It is also related to our XR and future democracy article. There's also a separate global article: List of climate assemblies.
The term climate assembly is used here to mean any citizens assembly considering, either exclusively or otherwise, a response to climate change or climate emergency.
The list could be expanded to include also peoples' assemblies, or other gatherings, for example of the kinds listed on the Future Democracy Hub happening in response to climate emergency.
Campaigns[edit | edit source]
Climate and Nature Bill
Zero Hour, campaign group behind the Climate and Nature Bill, (CAN Bill). Zero Hour on youtube.com, added 11:58, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
Insulate Britain
- Insulate Britain, campaign group that is calling on the UK government to put in place policy and funding for a national home insulation programme starting with all social housing.
Insulate Britain Demands
- That the UK government immediately promises to fully fund and take responsibility for the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025;
- That the UK government immediately promises to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and take responsibility for the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030 as part of a just transition to full decarbonisation of all parts of society and the economy....Insulate Britain Press Release, 28 October 2021, insulatebritain.com
Extinction Rebellion
- Here Comes Everyone: XR's strategy for 2023-24 aims sees strengthening communities as the path to effective climate protest, The Daily Alternative (Jun 04, 2023)
- Extinction Rebellion: Climate activists stage Earth Day demonstration, BBC News (Apr 24, 2023)
- Extinction Rebellion announces move away from disruptive tactics, The Guardian (Jan 01, 2023)
Extinction Rebellion (abbreviated as XR) is a socio-political movement with the stated aim of using civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance to protest against climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse.
Extinction Rebellion was established in the United Kingdom in May 2018 with about one hundred academics signing a call to action in support in October 2018, and launched at the end of October by Roger Hallam, Gail Bradbrook, Simon Bramwell, and other activists from the campaign group Rising Up!.
Citing inspiration from grassroots movements such as Occupy, Gandhi's Satyagraha, the suffragettes, Gene Sharp, Martin Luther King and others in the civil rights movement, Extinction Rebellion wants to rally support worldwide around a common sense of urgency to tackle climate breakdown.
The movement uses a circled hourglass, known as the Extinction Symbol, to serve as a warning that time is rapidly running out for many species. Special Note: This is an abbreviated version of the introductory text from Wikipedia's article. You are encouraged to read the full version. W See also next section.
Other campaigns
- Just Stop Oil, coalition of groups working together to demand that the government immediately halt all future licensing and consents for the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels in the UK. Coalition of groups demanding the no-brainer things be done immediately – actions that will reduce the demand for fossil fuel energy dramatically such as insulating our homes, rethinking how we travel, getting on with renewable energy and making sure no-one is left behind...press release, Feb 14, 2022, juststopoil.org, added 15:03, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
- Take Climate Action, campaign from Friends of the Earth to encourage local councils to adopt a Climate Action Plan, added 20:57, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
- Households Declare!, from Architects Climate Action Network. Time for every UK household to declare a climate emergency! Sign the letter to Alok Sharma. Check out the resources section of their website. added 16:25, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
- Badvertising, campaign to stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency, including ads for cars, airline flights and fossil fuels, added 16:42, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
- Parents For Future UK
- Campaign against Climate Change, UK-based pressure group that aims to raise public awareness of anthropogenic climate change through mobilizing mass demonstrations. W
- Divestment Campaign, Move Your Money
- Fossil Free UK, Fossil Free UK, Pension tool
- Fossil Free campaign, People and Planet
- Rising Tide UK is the United Kingdom part of the International Rising Tide Network, both of which were created in 2000 to carry out direct action against the root causes of climate change, and to work towards a fossil fuel free future. RTUK takes a no-compromise position and believes that only the complete dismantling of the fossil fuel industry and a shift to low consumption lifestyles will be sufficient to halt climate change. Rising Tide UK is formed of regional and local groups in the UK, and supports networks of similar groups around the country. Actions carried out by Rising Tide UK groups range from protests and street-theatre style events, to mass occupations of petrol stations, and blockades of key fossil fuel industrial sites. W
- Time To Act
Video archive[edit | edit source]
See also
Carbon emissions from UK schools, Localism UK, XR and future democracy
External links
- Wikipedia: Climate change in the United Kingdom (category)
- Declare a climate emergency, go zero carbon by 2030
- Possible
- Carbon Omissions
- Climate UK
- Committee on Climate Change, independent, statutory body
- Hope for the Future
