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UK Climate news/2019

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This page brings together UK news 2019, on Climate action, highlighting innovative strategies and community efforts that recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism in response to climate emergency. Learn about how communities positively impact through different projects and collaborations.

  • New climate emergency network launched to link schools across B&NES, Dec 23[1]
  • City Council responds to Oxford Citizens' Assembly on Climate Change and outlines £19m climate emergency budget, Dec 16[2]
  • Green new deal for Nottingham wins top Guardian award, Nov 27[3] Nottingham city council announced in January that it intended to become the UK's first carbon-neutral city by 2028.
  • Opposition leaders call on Johnson to join in TV climate debate, Nov 19[4]
  • Majority of UK public back 2030 zero-carbon target – poll, Nov 7[5]
  • Climate change: Thousands invited to join citizens' assembly, Nov 2[6]
  • Parliamentary Citizens' Assembly on Climate Change – A first step, but a devastating missed opportunity, Extinction Rebellion, Nov 2[7]

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  • Sleepy Cambridgeshire village invites Swedish climate experts to help tackle climate emergency, Oct 30[1]
  • Britain now G7's biggest net importer of CO2 emissions per capita, says ONS, Oct 21[2]
  • To fight climate change, science must be mobilised like it was in World War II, Oct 21[3]
  • What does Greta Thunberg's call for equity mean? Oct 3[4]

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  • Tyndall Carbon Targeter helps Local Authorities respond to their Climate Emergency, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Sep 23[1]

If world leaders choose to fail us, my generation will never forgive them, Greta Thunberg, Sep 23[2]

For the sake of life on Earth, we must put a limit on wealth, George Monbiot, Sep 19[3]

  • Faster pace of climate change is 'scary', former chief scientist says, Sep 16[4]
  • A/UK has been working with Extinction Rebellion to develop a Future Democracy Hub, now launching, Sep 7[5]

Ditch cars to meet climate change targets, say MPs, Aug 22[6]

  • Uni bans burgers: No more beef to be sold on campus as students combat global warming, Aug 13[7]

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  • England region plans world-first for climate change teaching, Jul 30[1]
  • Climate more pressing than Brexit, say 71% of Britons, Jul 26[2]
  • First climate assembly in UK draws up wishlist for council action, Jul 20[3]
  • Corbyn calls for UK to stop passing the buck on climate change to poorer countries, Jul 14[4]
  • Enough of the climate nightmare. It's time to paint the dream, Ed Miliband, Jul 4[5]
  • Cambridgeshire organisation launches radical response to climate emergency, Jun 13[6]
  • Theresa May commits to net zero UK carbon emissions by 2050, Jun 11[7]

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Much shorter working weeks needed to tackle climate crisis, May 22[1]

  • 'This is a wake-up call': the villagers who could be Britain's first climate refugees, May 18[2]
  • Thousands of parents take to the streets to demand action on climate change, May 13[3]
  • UK Parliament Declares Environment and Climate Emergency, Claire Mitchell, May 1[4]
  • Thousands block roads in Extinction Rebellion protests across London news, Apr 15[5]
  • Ending climate change requires the end of capitalism. Have we got the stomach for it? Phil McDuff, Mar 18[6]
  • UK's CO2 emissions fell for record sixth consecutive year in 2018, Mar 4[7]

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  • A report from the #SchoolStrike, AlterNatives - personal stories of making change, Feb 17[1]
  • Climate strike: UK school pupils take part in call for urgent action, Feb 15[2]
  • UK pupils to join global strike over climate change crisis, Feb 8[3]
  • Machynlleth declares 'climate emergency', Jan 24[4]
  • Britain has shifted 30% of its electricity away from fossil fuels in just nine years, Jan 10[5]
  • Scarborough Council declares Climate Emergency in first major step to combat global warming, Jan 8[6]

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