Addressing Climate Through Food
Lecture by Dr Joseph Poore, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford See also this article in The Guardian 2018 on his recent report and this interview on The Naked Scientists. … Continue reading →
Monthly Archives: September 2019
Minutes of Meeting with Sarah Watson 16-09-2019
Present Sarah Watson Head of Energy & Low Carbon at Coventry City Council Denise Osborne Marketing and Events Coordinator, Energy and Low Carbon Bethany Kitchener Work Placement, Coventry City Council Philip Brown Coventry Climate Action Network David Chapman Warwick University … Continue reading →
Report from Rugby September 2019
CovCAN Rugby member Samren Reddy was invited to join the Extinction Rebellion Rugby group on Saturday 14 September in a March called ‘The Air We Grieve’. The main aim of the march was to show how further expansion of the … Continue reading →
Coventry Council Consultations
Coventry City Council needs to update its Climate Strategy and will be running a public consultation during the autumn of 2019. CovCAN will be helping them to do this. One way we are planning is to create a public theatre … Continue reading →
Coventry Air Quality Action Plan
In July 2017, the UK Government published a plan to reduce NO2 emissions. Coventry was named as one of the 28 towns and cities forecast to exceed legal limits by 2021. The city council responded by working with the government’s … Continue reading →
Emissions Charge in Coventry
In July 2017, the UK Government published a plan to reduce NO2 emissions. Coventry was named as one of the 28 towns and cities forecast to exceed legal limits by 2021. The city council responded by working with the government’s … Continue reading →
Microplastics in drinking-water
The World Health Organisation published a report on Microplastics in drinking-water in 2019. Studies reporting the presence of microplastics in treated tap and bottled water have raised questions and concerns about the impact that microplastics in drinking-water might have on … Continue reading →
Plastic Oceans
Plastic Oceans UK work with businesses, scientists, schools and policy-makers to change attitudes and behaviours towards plastic. They claim to have been experts on the issue for a decade, and to be solving the crisis through their science, education and … Continue reading →
Climate Justice Now
According to Wikipedia, Climate Justice Now! (CJN!) is a global coalition of networks and organizations campaigning for climate justice. The coalition was founded at the 2007 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Bali, and has since mobilised … Continue reading →
Climate justice
According to Wikipedia Climate justice is a term used for framing global warming as an ethical and political issue, rather than one that is purely environmental or physical in nature. This is done by relating the effects of climate change … Continue reading →