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UK Climate news/2023
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This page brings together UK news 2023, 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.
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Climate groups begin legal actions against Rosebank North Sea oil project, theguardian.com (Dec 18, 2023) - ‘We can’t afford to wait’: a Cornish town faces climate threat head on, theguardian.com (Dec 14, 2023)
- Why South Yorkshire needed a citizens’ assembly for net zero, newstatesman.com (Dec 11, 2023)
- ‘It reaches deep inside people’: the climate choirs singing for the planet, positive.news (Dec 06, 2023)
- Chris Packham launches legal challenge over UK’s watering down of climate policies, theguardian.com (Dec 04, 2023)
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- Actors and academics criticise UK over climate ‘madness’ and limits on protest, theguardian.com (Nov 24, 2023)
- First Past the Post Voting System Barrier to Urgent Action on Climate Crisis, Major Environmental Groups Say, bylinetimes.com (Nov 21, 2023)
- Revealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classes, theguardian.com (Nov 20, 2023)
- Neighbours band together to tackle energy bills and show how climate action starts at home, bigissue.com (Nov 06, 2023)
- Claimants take UK government to court over inadequate climate adaptation, theguardian.com (Nov 01, 2023)
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- Low income UK homes ‘should be given free heat pumps’ to meet climate targets, according to the government’s advisers., theguardian.com (Oct 18, 2023)
- SUVs emit more climate damaging gas than older cars do, study finds, theguardian.com (Oct 16, 2023)
- Labour’s housing plans will not solve the affordability crisis, theguardian.com (Oct 15, 2023)
- Labour’s supposedly bold ‘new towns’ idea has been tried before. And it failed, Simon Jenkins, theguardian.com (Oct 12, 2023) — These vast sums should be spent improving our ‘second-tier’ cities – not on costly, carbon-guzzling developments in the rural south
- Stop Climate Chaos Scotland publishes largest ever Climate Manifesto, stopclimatechaos.scot (Oct 11, 2023)
- Dear Keir Starmer: here’s what you should know about Sunak’s attack on climate policy – he lied and lied, Fiona Harvey, theguardian.com (Oct 09, 2023)
- We have a date in court with the Government to demand honesty about net zero, goodlawproject.org (Oct 06, 2023)
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- Rishi Sunak has ripped up decades of cross-party consensus on climate change, theconversation.com (Sep 26, 2023)
- How Sunak’s back-pedalling on net zero could damage efforts to decarbonise Britain’s homes, theconversation.com (Sep 21, 2023)
- Al Gore leads international chorus of disapproval for Sunak’s climate U-turn, theguardian.com (Sep 21, 2023)
- Partnership project involving local communities helping nature and climate getting underway in Cambridge., climateoutreach.org (Sep 18, 2023) — The River Cam CAN (Climate Action through Nature) project will involve communities near the river working on initiatives that will benefit them and the environment. “The River Cam connects most of the city’s green spaces, habitats and communities – including some of the most economically and socially disadvantaged. The river system is also emblematic of the environmental challenges that Cambridge faces; it suffers from flooding, pollution, drought and over-use of water, all are getting worse, and many are connected to climate change. This has impacts on both communities and nature and this project is about encouraging people to get involved and help their rivers and streams." James Littlewood, Cambridge Past, Present & Future. The two-year project is a being delivered by a partnership of local organisations supported by the national charity Climate Outreach, with funding from The National Lottery Community Fund.
- Ammanford: Opencast coalmine plans rejected by council, BBC News (Sep 15, 2023)
- Fossil fuel companies have a secret weapon. Here’s how Britain can help take it away from them, Cleodie Rickard, theguardian.com (Sep 13, 2023)
- New report reveals nearly a quarter of UK shopping basket at high risk from climate change, mediacentre.christianaid.org.uk (Sep 13, 2023)
- ‘Real’ public engagement must be prioritised for path to net zero to succeed, climateoutreach.org (Sep 05, 2023) — the UPPER Coalition Reports include examples of successful co-designing and collaboration with local citizens, including Camden Think & Do’s programme, Kendal’s Climate Jury, and initiatives in Hull and Hackney
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- Nature groups prepared to ‘mobilise’ 20m members over UK climate policy, theguardian.com (Jul 29, 2023)
- To understand the right’s climate backlash, look no further than its monstering of Natural England, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Jul 20, 2023) — MPs and newspapers alike are attacking the public body charged with conserving the English countryside for doing just that
- Horse Hill oil - a legal challenge with real climate impact, friendsoftheearth.uk (Jun 28, 2023)
- High costs deterring legal challenges in England and Wales to protect environment, NGOs say, The Guardian (Jun 28, 2023)
- Campaigners win right to challenge England’s food strategy over climate crisis, The Guardian (Jun 16, 2023)
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- Wealth tax of 0.5% could cover UK’s share of loss and damage fund, says charity, The Guardian (May 12, 2023)
- The Former Extinction Rebellion Campaigners Rallying A Climate Majority, desmog.com (May 03, 2023)
- Climate groups taking government to court over “dangerous” aviation strategy, wearepossible.org (Mar 28, 2023)
- Top lawyers defy bar to declare they will not prosecute peaceful climate protesters, The Guardian (Mar 24, 2023)
- Court restrictions on climate protesters ‘deeply concerning’, say leading lawyers, The Guardian (Mar 08, 2023)
- Cabinet ministers warned of legal action over UK’s failure to tackle climate crisis, The Guardian (Mar 04, 2023)
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- Today’s climate activist ‘criminals’ are tomorrow’s heroes: silencing them in court is immoral, George Monbiot, The Guardian (Feb 22, 2023)
- The people bringing future generations into the climate fight, bbc.com (Feb 16, 2023)
- All major road building projects in Wales are scrapped, BBC News (Feb 14, 2023)
- ‘We create changemakers’: the new UK college dedicated to climate crisis, The Guardian (Feb 11, 2023)
- More than 100 writers sign letter in solidarity with jailed UK climate activists, The Guardian (Jan 06, 2023)
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