CovCAN Weekly Newsletter

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

covcanuk@gmail.com

Finding Help with Climate Anxiety

We published an article in 2019 explaining that Climate Anxiety is Normal and Healthy and since then a lot of people have been suffering from COVID anxiety. But we were not aware at the time of writing that a plan existed to increase the number of people with anxiety disorders or depression who can access talking therapies through an online …

Weekly Newsletter

We have had to update our weekly newsletter due to a software change beyond our control, so hopefully you should receive an email every week that new content is added to this website. Philip Brown, Editor CovCAN website

Climate and SDG Forum Monthly TeleConversations

Meet others interested in taking action on climate change and sustainable development goals, share knowledge, make plans Coventry Climate Action Network, the Sustainable Development Forum and anyone else interested in these issues are invited to attend telemeetings at 7pm on the first Tuesday of every month in 2021 to share experience and plan activities. Coventry Climate Action Network (CovCAN) has …

Ode to the (S)murf

This article is a very personal lament for our natural world by Sara Maycock, a long time Coventry resident and climate change campaigner who just sees conflict in Coventry’s many grandiose policy statements and no recognition of the impact on local communities in the city, of the many bleeding edge technological projects the city is signing up to. She hopes …

Plant-Based Meats & Meat Alternatives

This is part of an article first published on the Seriously Smoked website on November 27, 2020 and is reproduced with permission. The Complete Guide to Plant-Based Meats & Meat Alternatives Plant based meat is seeing significant growth around the world as more and more people are looking to limit their meat consumption. In fact, there has been a 26% …

UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2020: An Inflection Point

The United Nations Environment Programme has issued their Emissions Gap Report 2020: An Inflection Point which shows that, despite a dip in greenhouse gas emissions from the COVID-19 economic slowdown, the world is still heading for a catastrophic temperature rise above 3°C this century – far beyond the goals of the Paris Agreement. But UNEP's Emissions Gap points to hope in a green …

UK100 Launch New Pledge

At on online event on 10 December, UK100 announced the first group of 41 local leaders who have signed the new Net Zero Local Leadership Pledge and invited local leaders from across the UK to join them. These 41 leaders have committed to go further and faster than national government with earlier Net Zero targets, whether by 2030 for their own …

UK100 - Will Coventry Ever Join?

UK100 is the only network for UK locally elected leaders who have pledged to play their part in the global effort to avoid the worst impacts of climate change by switching to 100% clean energy by 2050. The most ambitious - our Net Zero Local Leadership Club - are doing everything within their power to get their communities to Net …

Appeal for help on traffic pollution

The following appeal was made by a reader of this website. Please contact me asap I am tearing my hair out re Traffic Pollution in the City Centre and CCC Highways plans to “seem” to solve the issue around Holyhead Road when all that will actually be done is to INCREASE it by moving traffic to directly outside a local …

Warwick Sustainability Summit 2020 video

Warwick Sustainability Summit took place on 3 December 2020 hosted by Sustainability at Warwick. Participants included Coventry City Council and Warwick District Council who reported what they have been doing in the region. Staff, students and alumni reported their work on various projects on campus, in the region and across the world. A Keynote Discussion on Circular Economy was held …