Articles added to the CovCAN website this week are listed below.

For a list of forthcoming events please see covcan.uk/events-list

If you have news about climate change in the Coventry area, please write to 

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News

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59% of UK people making low-carbon choices

The UK Met Office has published the results of a YouGov survey which finds that over half the British public are consciously making low-carbon choices, with nearly two thirds wanting to do more. A representative sample of the British public was asked about the action they are taking to reduce their carbon footprint and their perceptions on if people in …

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A Green Vision for Our City?

Article by David Ridley and Tom Maidment of Coventry Green New Deal. On Wednesday 15th February, Coventry City Council launched its new Climate Change Strategy, “A Green Future for a Changing City 2022 – 2030.” With the strategy many years late, what was presented didn’t meet expectations, although there were glimmers of hope which must be seized upon. There is …

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IPCC Assessment Report March 2023

A summary for policymakers  of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was published on 20 March and in 36 pages summarises the current state of knowledge of climate change, its widespread impacts and risks, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Perhaps the most important conclusions are: Global GHG emissions in 2030 implied by …

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Coventry finally creates a Draft Climate Change Strategy

We have reported earlier that Coventry's Climate Change Strategy ran out in 2020. Now, only three years late, the city has finally got round to publishing a draft of the replacement strategy which was supposed to cover the period from 2020 to 2030. For a highly critical article on this "strategy" see this article by David Ridley and Tom Maidment of Coventry Green …

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Forthcoming Events

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For a list of events please visit https://covcan.uk/events-list/

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