CampaignsExtinction RebellionSee separate article: Extinction Rebellion Other campaignsCampaign 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 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 Climate AssemblySee List of climate assemblies, United Kingdom
ResourcesCommunity is used widely to be a group that gets together such as an association, but also includes municipalities with communal governance structures. Here more formal structures that comply with legal requirements or duties imposed by higher authorities may also give frameworks for action. For example planning can be done in a participatory way. There may be national plans, local, community, neighbourhood or regional plans or design statements or climate action plans.
MapsLand projected to be below annual flood level in 2050, coastal.climatecentral.org Map, Climate Just For the love of, Paris climate talks, what's happening in the UK NetworksPlace-based Climate Action NetworkPlace-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. UK Youth Climate CoalitionThe UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC) is a non-profit youth organisation in the United Kingdom. The organisation is run entirely by unpaid volunteers, who are all aged 18 to 29. Formed in 2008, the mission of the organisation is to inspire, empower and mobilise a coalition of UK youth organisations and young people to take positive action on climate change. To achieve their aims and objectives, the organisation provides training to young people on public narration whilst coordinating a series of projects, campaigns and events each year, including youth delegations to the United Nations Climate Negotiations. W The organisation is supported by a coalition of non-governmental organisations.
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ResearchMilne, S., “Consuming Carbon: RESOLVE Scenarios to 2030 for UK Household Consumption”, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, ISBN 978-1-84469-023-7, November 2011. Resolve Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research is an organisation based in the United Kingdom that brings together scientists, economists, engineers and social scientists to 'research, assess and communicate from a distinct trans-disciplinary perspective, the options to mitigate, and the necessities to adapt to current climate change and continuing global Warming, and to integrate these into the global, UK and local contexts of sustainable development'. W UK Climate Impacts Programme, established in 1997 to help co-ordinate scientific research into the impacts of climate change, and to help organisations adapt to those unavoidable impacts Error in widget YouTube: Unable to load template 'wiki:YouTube'
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News and commentSee separate article: UK Climate news Events2015 November 29, 2015
People’s Climate March, London July 11
Fossil Fuel Divestment: Building the Movement, London March 7 Time to Act on Climate Change march, London March 2 - 8 Climate Week February 9 - 15 Go Green Week See also
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