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'''Feb 11''' [[Education UK]]: Pupils draft their own climate bill as anxiety grows over lack of guidance for schools <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/feb/11/pupils-draft-climate-bill-anxiety-lack-guidance-schools theguardian.com]</ref><br clear=all> | |||
== 2020 == | |||
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'''Jan 22''' [[List of climate assemblies]]: UK citizens' climate assembly to meet for first time <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/22/uk-citizens-climate-assembly-meet-first-time theguardian.com]</ref><br clear=all> | |||
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'''Jan 9''' [[Trees, woodland and forest UK]]: National Trust unveils woodland expansion and tree planting projects as part of plan to become carbon net zero by 2030 <ref>[https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/press-release/national-trust-outlines-fresh-ambition-in-landmark-speech-by-director-general nationaltrust.org.uk]</ref><br clear=all> | |||
== 2019 == | |||
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'''Dec 23''' [[Bath]]: New climate emergency network launched to link schools across B&NES <ref>[https://www.bathecho.co.uk/news/community/new-climate-emergency-network-launched-link-schools-87863/ @BathEcho]</ref><br clear=all> | |||
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'''Dec 16''' [[Oxfordshire]]: City Council responds to Oxford Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change and outlines £19m climate emergency budget <ref>[https://www.oxford.gov.uk/news/article/1275/city_council_responds_to_oxford_citizens_assembly_on_climate_change_and_outlines_19m_climate_emergency_budget oxford.gov.uk]</ref><br clear=all> | |||
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'''Nov 27''' [[East Midlands]]: Green new deal for Nottingham wins top Guardian award <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/nov/27/green-new-deal-nottingham-wins-top-guardian-award theguardian.com]</ref> Nottingham city council announced in January that it intended to become the UK’s first carbon-neutral city by 2028.<br clear=all> | |||
'''Nov 19''' Opposition leaders call on Johnson to join in TV climate debate <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/19/opposition-leaders-call-on-johnson-to-join-in-tv-climate-debate The Guardian]</ref> | |||
'''Nov 7''' Majority of UK public back 2030 zero-carbon target – poll <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/07/majority-of-uk-public-back-2030-zero-carbon-target-poll The Guardian]</ref> | |||
'''Nov 2''' Climate change: Thousands invited to join citizens' assembly <ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-50264797 BBC News]</ref> | |||
'''Nov 2''' Parliamentary Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change – A first step, but a devastating missed opportunity, Extinction Rebellion <ref>[https://rebellion.earth/2019/11/02/parliamentary-citizens-assembly-on-climate-change-a-first-step-but-a-devastating-missed-opportunity/ rebellion.earth]</ref> | |||
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'''Oct 30''' Sleepy [[Cambridgeshire]] village invites Swedish climate experts to help tackle climate emergency <ref>[http://camemergency.org/swedish-experts-help-histon-impington/ camemergency.org]</ref><br clear=all> | |||
'''Oct 21''' Britain now G7's biggest net importer of CO2 emissions per capita, says ONS <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/21/britain-is-g7s-biggest-net-importer-of-co2-emissions-per-capita-says- The Guardian]</ref> | |||
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'''Sep 7''' [[XR and future democracy]]: A/UK has been working with Extinction Rebellion to develop a Future Democracy Hub, now launching <ref>[https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2019/9/9/better-democracy-climate-emergency The Alternative UK]</ref><br clear=all> | |||
'''Aug 22''' Ditch cars to meet climate change targets, say MPs <ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49425402 BBC News]</ref> | '''Aug 22''' Ditch cars to meet climate change targets, say MPs <ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49425402 BBC News]</ref> | ||
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'''Aug 13''' [[London news]]: Uni bans burgers: No more beef to be sold on campus as students combat global warming <ref>[https://www.metro.news/uni-bans-burgers-no-more-beef-to-be-sold-on-campus-as-students-combat-global-warming/1673275/ metro.news]</ref><br clear=all> | '''Aug 13''' [[London news]]: Uni bans burgers: No more beef to be sold on campus as students combat global warming <ref>[https://www.metro.news/uni-bans-burgers-no-more-beef-to-be-sold-on-campus-as-students-combat-global-warming/1673275/ metro.news]</ref><br clear=all> | ||
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'''Jul 30''' [[North East England]]: England region plans world-first for climate change teaching <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jul/30/north-of-tyne-mayor-signs-schools-up-for-climate-training theguardian.com]</ref><br clear=all> | |||
'''Jul 26''' Climate more pressing than Brexit, say 71% of Britons <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/26/climate-more-pressing-than-brexit-say-71-of-britons-poll The Guardian]</ref> | '''Jul 26''' Climate more pressing than Brexit, say 71% of Britons <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/26/climate-more-pressing-than-brexit-say-71-of-britons-poll The Guardian]</ref> | ||
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'''July 14''' Corbyn calls for UK to stop passing the buck on climate change to poorer countries <ref>[https://labour.org.uk/press/corbyn-calls-uk-stop-passing-buck-climate-change-poorer-countries/ labour.org.uk]</ref> | '''July 14''' Corbyn calls for UK to stop passing the buck on climate change to poorer countries <ref>[https://labour.org.uk/press/corbyn-calls-uk-stop-passing-buck-climate-change-poorer-countries/ labour.org.uk]</ref> | ||
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'''Jun 13''' [[Cambridgeshire]] organisation launches radical response to climate emergency <ref>[http://camemergency.org/launch/ camemergency.org]</ref><br clear=all> | |||
'''Jun 11''' Theresa May commits to net zero UK carbon emissions by 2050 <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/11/theresa-may-commits-to-net-zero-uk-carbon-emissions-by-2050 The Guardian]</ref> | '''Jun 11''' Theresa May commits to net zero UK carbon emissions by 2050 <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/11/theresa-may-commits-to-net-zero-uk-carbon-emissions-by-2050 The Guardian]</ref> | ||
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'''May 18''' [[Wales news]]: ‘This is a wake-up call’: the villagers who could be Britain’s first climate refugees <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/18/this-is-a-wake-up-call-the-villagers-who-could-be-britains-first-climate-refugees The Guardian]</ref><br clear=all> | |||
'''May 13''' Thousands of parents take to the streets to demand action on climate change <ref>[https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/13/thousands-of-parents-take-to-the-streets-to-demand-action-on-climate-change-9502466/ @MetroUK]</ref> | '''May 13''' Thousands of parents take to the streets to demand action on climate change <ref>[https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/13/thousands-of-parents-take-to-the-streets-to-demand-action-on-climate-change-9502466/ @MetroUK]</ref> | ||
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'''2020''' | |||
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'''Feb 4''' [[Scotland news]]: Is Scotland leading the way on climate change? <ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51088089 BBC News]</ref><br clear=all> | |||
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'''Feb 3''' [[Surrey]]: Six key issues Surrey County Council must address, Sarah Finch, Extinction Rebellion Reigate & Redhill <ref>[https://xrreigateandredhill.org/six-key-issues-surrey-county-council-must-address/ xrreigateandredhill.org]</ref><br clear=all> | |||
'''2019''' | '''2019''' | ||
'''Oct 21''' To fight climate change, science must be mobilised like it was in World War II <ref>[http://theconversation.com/to-fight-climate-change-science-must-be-mobilised-like-it-was-in-world-war-ii-125258 theconversation.com]</ref> | |||
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'''Oct 3''' [[Climate news 2019]]: What does Greta Thunberg's call for equity mean? <ref>[https://www.climatechangenews.com/2019/10/02/greta-thunbergs-call-equity-mean/ climatechangenews.com]</ref><br clear=all> | |||
'''Sep 23''' Tyndall Carbon Targeter helps Local Authorities respond to their Climate Emergency, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research <ref>[https://www.tyndall.ac.uk/news/tyndall-carbon-targeter-helps-local-authorities-respond-their-climate-emergency tyndall.ac.uk]</ref> | |||
'''Sep 23''' If world leaders choose to fail us, my generation will never forgive them, Greta Thunberg <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/23/world-leaders-generation-climate-breakdown-greta-thunberg The Guardian]</ref> | |||
'''Sep 19''' For the sake of life on Earth, we must put a limit on wealth, George Monbiot <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/19/life-earth-wealth-megarich-spending-power-environmental-damage The Guardian]</ref><br clear=all> | |||
'''Sep 16''' Faster pace of climate change is 'scary', former chief scientist says <ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49689018 BBC News]</ref> | |||
'''Jul 4''' Enough of the climate nightmare. It’s time to paint the dream, Ed Miliband <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/04/enough-climate-nightmare-paint-dream-inequality The Guardian]</ref> | '''Jul 4''' Enough of the climate nightmare. It’s time to paint the dream, Ed Miliband <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/04/enough-climate-nightmare-paint-dream-inequality The Guardian]</ref> | ||
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'''Nov 26''' [[Trees, woodland and forest UK]]: We need to bring back the wildwoods of Britain to fight climate change, Isabella Tree <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/26/wildwoods-britain-climate-change-northern-forest The Guardian]</ref><br clear=all> | '''Nov 26''' [[Trees, woodland and forest UK]]: We need to bring back the wildwoods of Britain to fight climate change, Isabella Tree <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/26/wildwoods-britain-climate-change-northern-forest The Guardian]</ref><br clear=all> | ||
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Revision as of 16:54, 11 February 2020
Feb 11 Education UK: Pupils draft their own climate bill as anxiety grows over lack of guidance for schools [1] 2020Jan 22 List of climate assemblies: UK citizens' climate assembly to meet for first time [2] Jan 9 Trees, woodland and forest UK: National Trust unveils woodland expansion and tree planting projects as part of plan to become carbon net zero by 2030 [3] 2019Dec 23 Bath: New climate emergency network launched to link schools across B&NES [4] Dec 16 Oxfordshire: City Council responds to Oxford Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change and outlines £19m climate emergency budget [5] Nov 27 East Midlands: Green new deal for Nottingham wins top Guardian award [6] Nottingham city council announced in January that it intended to become the UK’s first carbon-neutral city by 2028. Nov 19 Opposition leaders call on Johnson to join in TV climate debate [7] Nov 7 Majority of UK public back 2030 zero-carbon target – poll [8] Nov 2 Climate change: Thousands invited to join citizens' assembly [9] Nov 2 Parliamentary Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change – A first step, but a devastating missed opportunity, Extinction Rebellion [10] Error in widget YouTube: Unable to load template 'wiki:YouTube'
Oct 30 Sleepy Cambridgeshire village invites Swedish climate experts to help tackle climate emergency [11] Oct 21 Britain now G7's biggest net importer of CO2 emissions per capita, says ONS [12] Sep 7 XR and future democracy: A/UK has been working with Extinction Rebellion to develop a Future Democracy Hub, now launching [13] Aug 22 Ditch cars to meet climate change targets, say MPs [14] Aug 13 London news: Uni bans burgers: No more beef to be sold on campus as students combat global warming [15] Jul 30 North East England: England region plans world-first for climate change teaching [16] Jul 26 Climate more pressing than Brexit, say 71% of Britons [17] Jul 20 Camden: First climate assembly in UK draws up wishlist for council action [18] July 14 Corbyn calls for UK to stop passing the buck on climate change to poorer countries [19] Jun 13 Cambridgeshire organisation launches radical response to climate emergency [20] Jun 11 Theresa May commits to net zero UK carbon emissions by 2050 [21] May 18 Wales news: ‘This is a wake-up call’: the villagers who could be Britain’s first climate refugees [22] May 13 Thousands of parents take to the streets to demand action on climate change [23] May 1 UK Parliament Declares Environment and Climate Emergency, Claire Mitchell [24] Apr 15 Thousands block roads in Extinction Rebellion protests across London [25] Mar 4 UK’s CO2 emissions fell for record sixth consecutive year in 2018 [26] Feb 15 Climate strike: UK school pupils take part in call for urgent action [27] Feb 8 UK pupils to join global strike over climate change crisis [28] Jan 24 Wales news: Machynlleth declares 'climate emergency' [29] Britain has shifted 30% of its electricity away from fossil fuels in just nine years, Jan 10 [30] Jan 8 Yorkshire and the Humber: Scarborough Council declares Climate Emergency in first major step to combat global warming [31] 2018Bristol plans to become carbon neutral by 2030, Nov 14 [32] Fracking protesters walk free after court quashes 'excessive' sentences, Oct 17 [33] Top climate scientist blasts UK’s fracking plans as 'aping Trump’, Oct 13 [34] UK carbon emissions in 2017 fell to levels last seen in 1890, Mar 7 [35] Edinburgh University divests from all fossil fuels, Feb 6 [36] Transport is UK's most polluting sector as greenhouse gas emissions fall, Feb 6 [37] 2017Boost for fossil fuel divestment as UK eases pension rules, Dec 18 [38] In-depth: How the ‘Clean Growth Strategy’ hopes to deliver UK climate goals, Oct 12 [39] Scotland: Scottish government bans fracking after public opposition, Oct 3 [40] University fossil fuel divestment total tips £80 billion globally, Aug 17 [41] Bristol news: University of Bristol announces new fossil fuel divestment and carbon reduction plans, Mar 8 [42] UK carbon emissions fell 6% in 2016 after record drop in coal use, Mar 6 [43] Divestival in Walthamstow, Feb 9 [44] UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions Continue Decline, Feb 8 [45] 2016Fossil Free Southwark: Our Story, Dec 14 [46] UK's carbon footprint rises 3%, Aug 2 [47] UK poorly prepared for climate change impacts, government advisers warn, Jul 12 [48] UK sets ambitious new 2030s carbon target, Jun 30 [49] UK lacks policies to meet more than half its carbon emissions cuts – report, Jun 30 [50] Analysis of official government energy use figures: The UK's emissions fell by 4.3% in 2015 after largest recorded annual drop in coal use, Feb 25 [51] Independent review of Local Enterprise Partnership climate change good practice published, January 18 [52]
2015This map shows how prepared for climate change 30 UK cities are, September 8 [53] Large fall in UK emissions in 2014, official figures confirm, March 26 [54]
2014UK greenhouse gas emissions fall by 2%, March 27 [55] |
Comment2020 Feb 4 Scotland news: Is Scotland leading the way on climate change? [56] Feb 3 Surrey: Six key issues Surrey County Council must address, Sarah Finch, Extinction Rebellion Reigate & Redhill [57] 2019 Oct 21 To fight climate change, science must be mobilised like it was in World War II [58] Oct 3 Climate news 2019: What does Greta Thunberg's call for equity mean? [59] Sep 23 Tyndall Carbon Targeter helps Local Authorities respond to their Climate Emergency, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research [60] Sep 23 If world leaders choose to fail us, my generation will never forgive them, Greta Thunberg [61] Sep 19 For the sake of life on Earth, we must put a limit on wealth, George Monbiot [62] Sep 16 Faster pace of climate change is 'scary', former chief scientist says [63] Jul 4 Enough of the climate nightmare. It’s time to paint the dream, Ed Miliband [64] May 22 Much shorter working weeks needed to tackle climate crisis [65] Mar 18 Ending climate change requires the end of capitalism. Have we got the stomach for it? Phil McDuff [66] Feb 17 A report from the #SchoolStrike, AlterNatives - personal stories of making change [67] 2018 Nov 26 Trees, woodland and forest UK: We need to bring back the wildwoods of Britain to fight climate change, Isabella Tree [68] The planet is burning - and you know it. How should you behave with family, friends, fellow citizens? Oct 1 [69] Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals, Martin Lukacs, Jul 17 [70] The environmental case for keeping the clocks on summer time – all the time, Mar 28 [71] Theresa May, charging us for plastic won't make up for those awful Tory environmental policies you're keeping quiet about, Jan 11 [72] 2017 UK climate change masterplan – the grownups have finally won, Oct 12 [73] Ministers who fail to cut greenhouse gas emissions should face legal action, says former chief government scientist, Sep 27 [74] Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals, Martin Lukacs, Jul 17 [75] UK climate change act threatened by “immensely scary” Brexit, says policy guru, Jun 1 [76] 2016 Power to the people? Populism, polarisation and public engagement, Jul 28 [77] We must close the loopholes in Britain's carbon budget, Damien Morris, April 12 [78] Climate change action needs widespread democratic change, Andrea Westall, Strategy and Policy Consultant and Trustee of the Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development, January 8 [79] News sourcesCreative commonsSee also
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