Nine out of ten people breathe polluted air. From 24 May, through to #WorldEnvironmentDay on June 5, UN Environment Programme are calling on everyone to join the Mask Challenge. Face masks are a great symbol to show leaders we want … Continue reading →
Extinction Rebellion (XR) is an international movement that uses non-violent civil disobedience to achieve radical change in order to minimise the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse. A large number of activists in the movement have pledged to be … Continue reading →
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international environmental treaty whose objective is to “stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. UNFCCC is … Continue reading →
We have noted elsewhere how difficult it would be to label individual food items with an exact measure of their greenhouse gas emissions. However the consumer probably does not need very detailed information in order to make informed decisions. All … Continue reading →
Food systems contribute 19%–29% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions according to a report by Sonja Vermeulen and others in 2012, although there is huge inherent uncertainty in these estimates. The major impacts come from farming/agriculture and land-use change … Continue reading →
#FridaysForFuture is a movement that began in August 2018, after 15 years old Greta Thunberg sat in front of the Swedish parliament every school-day for three weeks, to protest against the lack of action on the climate crisis. She posted … Continue reading →
Reasons for Consumer Resistance Persuading people to switch from “conventional” to electric vehicles (EVs) is crucial for the global effort to reduce emissions. Most modelling assumes this. Many politicians are calling for it. And even car manufacturers are now increasingly … Continue reading →
A weekend long event is being planned to take place in the autumn as a one-off under the title Coventry Transformed. The overall theme will be climate change. The organisers are aiming to bring together a wide array of people … Continue reading →
On 20 June a day-long conference will bring together a range of key public, private and third sector stakeholders to collaborate for accelerating wider public understanding and engagement in delivering solutions to the local and global emergency caused by generating … Continue reading →
On Saturday the 25th of May, Coventry Momentum (a Labour-supporting political organisation) will organise their next protest in the Bankrupt Climate Change campaign. This demands that Barclays divest from fossil fuels. They will be meeting outside Barclays on Coventry High … Continue reading →