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UK Climate news/2024
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This page brings together UK news 2024, 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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Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds, theguardian.com (Dec 11, 2024) - UK 'not ready' for extreme weather like Storm Darragh, BBC News (Dec 08, 2024) — "There are risks to our food yields, there are risks to where we can build safe homes for people, and risks to our towns and cities which are built on coastlines. These things are very obvious and we should be acting now to tackle them.", Emma Pinchbeck, head of the Climate Change Committee
- Construction is the world’s biggest carbon emitter, yet Labour still refuses to tackle it, Simon Jenkins, theguardian.com (Nov 19, 2024)
- Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful, theconversation.com (Nov 14, 2024)
- The grassroots-based Islington Climate Centre is running People’s Assemblies on practical challenges brought by climate crisis - heatwaves and flooding, Daily Alternative (Oct 31, 2024)
- Stop punishing doctors who take part in climate protests, regulator told, theguardian.com (Oct 27, 2024) — Hundreds of health workers sign letter to General Medical Council calling for halt to suspensions as GP faces jail for activism
- Labour’s carbon-capture scheme will be Starmer’s white elephant: a terrible mistake costing billions, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Oct 11, 2024) — The supposedly green project – brainchild of the previous Tory government – will increase emissions, not reduce them
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- Legal challenge to Rosebank oil field given go-ahead, BBC News (Sep 25, 2024)
- Create ‘positive tipping points’ with climate mandates, governments urged, theguardian.com (Sep 23, 2024) — Comment: Bolder: whole of housing zero emissions by 2035 or sooner! including new build & (acknowledged & reduced) embodied emissions, plus similar for local areas so communities can gain democratic right to constrain their own emissions, wouldn't that be a really super tipping point? Philralph (talk) 15:06, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
- Whitehaven coal mine plan quashed by High Court, BBC News (Sep 13, 2024)
- 'Climate change goal will be met by 2030' says Telford and Wrekin Council concerning its target for its operations to become carbon neutral by 2030, BBC News (Sep 13, 2024)
- Glastonbury gets 'climate action plan', BBC News (Aug 23, 2024)
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- UK government faces claim over alleged failure to protect people in climate crisis, theguardian.com (Jul 23, 2024)
- A record sentence for a Zoom call, arrests for those holding signs outside. This is a blight on British democracy, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Jul 19, 2024)
- Celebrities add voices to outcry over severity of Just Stop Oil sentences, theguardian.com (Jul 19, 2024)
- You may find Just Stop Oil annoying. You may dislike their tactics. But they do not belong in prison, Chris Packham and Dale Vince, theguardian.com (Jul 19, 2024) — These protesters are shouting ‘fire’ while the world burns. A society that locks them up cannot be called democratic
- North Northamptonshire Council given £3.8m to reduce carbon footprint of three key facilities, BBC News (Jul 13, 2024)
- Council in Surrey launching an action fund for projects which help tackle the impact of climate change, BBC News (Jul 13, 2024) — Elmbridge Borough Council say the fund is for projects that make a "tangible difference" to education around carbon emissions, biodiversity enhancement, and energy, water, and waste reduction
- Contempt, gagging and UN intervention: inside the UK’s wildest climate trial, theguardian.com (Jul 12, 2024)
- Wolds oil drilling plans quashed in landmark ruling, BBC News (Jul 11, 2024)
- Cumbria coalmine was unlawfully approved, government says, theguardian.com (Jul 11, 2024)
- Climate protest accused defies judge to give hours-long speech in court, theguardian.com (Jul 02, 2024)
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- Horse Hill: Historic win as Supreme Court upholds landmark climate case, Sarah Finch, wealdactiongroup.org.uk (Jun 20, 2024) — Surrey County Council acted unlawfully by giving planning permission for oil production at Horse Hill in the Surrey countryside without considering the climate impacts of when the oil is inevitably burned, the Supreme Court has ruled today.
- How to supercharge climate action? Get schools involved, positive.news (Jun 05, 2024)
- Edinburgh Council bans advertising for fossil fuel companies, airlines, airports, fossil-powered cars, SUVs, cruise ships and arms manufacturers on council-owned advertising spaces, badverts.org (May 29, 2024) — across England, one-third of local authorities now have some form of restrictions on harmful advertising
- ‘The fear has properly set in’: how it feels to watch my home town disappear into the sea, theguardian.com (May 21, 2024)
- Government defeated in High Court over climate plans, BBC News (May 03, 2024)
- Holding a placard outside court isn’t illegal, judge rules – is that the best British democracy has to offer?, theconversation.com (May 02, 2024)
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- Principles for Community-Centred Climate Adaptation, Bridie Kennerley, bioregion.org.uk (Apr 23, 2024)
- Judge throws out case against UK climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rights, theguardian.com (Apr 22, 2024)
- Ruling against Just Stop Oil doctor alarms British Medical Association, BBC News (Apr 22, 2024)
- Climate protesters in England and Wales lose criminal damage defence, theguardian.com (Mar 18, 2024)
- ‘No drilling! No drilling!’: climate choir sings truth to power in Palace of Westminster, theguardian.com (Mar 07, 2024)
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- European nations must end repression of peaceful climate protest, says UN expert, theguardian.com (Feb 28, 2024)
- ‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming, theguardian.com (Feb 25, 2024)
- ‘Assault on rights of juries’: activist decries Tory challenge to legal defence for protesters, theguardian.com (Feb 19, 2024)
- ‘A powerful message through song’: the UK’s Climate Choir Movement is growing, theguardian.com (Feb 07, 2024)
- Norway has made a vital climate leap. This is how Britain can do the same, Tessa Khan, theguardian.com (Jan 31, 2024)
- The Tories are right, we should stop the boats. Just not the ones they’re talking about, Aditya Chakrabortty, theguardian.com (Jan 18, 2024)
- Analysis: Record opposition to climate action by UK’s right-leaning newspapers in 2023, carbonbrief.org (Jan 09, 2024)
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