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We Are Green: City of Culture COP26 Event Programme

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Coventry Council may help finance Very Light Rail

Coventry City Council is set to discuss the provision of a £3.2m grant to support the Coventry Very Light Rail (VLR) project, in a measure to lock in investment to date while the project seeks funding from City Region Sustainable Transport Fund (CRSTS). Coventry VLR is a unique transport project which aims to bring urban light rail to Coventry, at a more affordable cost …

New transport strategy proposed for Coventry

Coventry City Council’s Cabinet is to consider a bold new transport strategy that could change the way that people travel to, from and around the city in the future. The strategy, which puts forward a plan for how the city’s transport system could evolve over the next 15 years, will be discussed at the upcoming Cabinet meeting on the 12 October. If the …

Climate Change Anxiety

Professor Jem Bendell writes in the October 2021 edition of Deep Adaption Quarterly: Anxiety about climate change and its impacts was discussed more widely in mainstream media in the last few months. For both children and adults, the main message coming from psychologists is that we can become more open about our feelings, rather than suppress them and pretend we …

Welcome March to Glasgow on 9 October 2021

Join the fun on Saturday 9 Oct as a colourful troupe of Coventry performers welcome March to Glasgow to our city. Gather outside Coventry train station at 12 noon to see pantomime characters and drummers dancing their way through the pedestrian centre to Coventry cathedral ruins, where there will be free entertainments to raise awareness of this year’s 20+ million …

Peace & Climate Change Pledges

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Traffic/Pollution in Sherbourne Ward

Letter from Mr Amrit Coyle to MP Taiwo OWATEMI and various Coventry City Councillors. Can I suggest that, as one of Coventry’s members of parliament, you use Coventry’s status as City of Culture as a platform to raise awareness of the real dangers to us all from climate change and traffic pollution. Scientists have known for decades the consequences of …

Forthcoming Events

Is your business ready to seize the latest digital opportunities?

European Space Agency (ESA), Coventry City Council’s Green Business Programme and Transport Team are delighted to run this webinar to share with businesses in our region how 5G and satellite applications can support sustainable development in the next GreenTalk LIVE webinar. Attendees will discover about the opportunities for business with ESA sharing how satellite applications can support sustainable development and …

Evidence Week

On 1st November, Sense about Science, are launching Evidence Week in Westminster 2021. We are inviting different communities from across the UK to ask how well-equipped the government and parliament are to understand and use scientific information. Brand new for 2021 is our Ask an MP discussion board, providing you and your colleagues the chance to ask an MP about whether they’re using evidence to …

Making our Fair Green Solar Future

This public event will showcase the potential to generate from multiple sources many times greener clean solar power today, creating new jobs both in manufacture, installing and servicing. The presentations highlight the latest installation of 5,000 solar panels on 41 Coventry buildings with publicly funded. Also, the Warwickshire located Heart of England Community Energy solar farm with 55,000 panels. Also, …

Severn Trent & BiTC Climate Change & COP 26 Discussion

Severn Trent and BiTC will host the Walk2COP26 team together with representation from local government, business, civil society groups and students to discuss: climate change and COP 26; local and national responses; and what we should do to accelerate action. The main session will run for two hours with speakers from the different constituencies, plenty of opportunity for Q & …