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Education Secretary puts climate change at the heart of education

At last: Something to Celebrate! Following the call from four education unions for the the Secretary of State for Education to take action to ensure climate change education becomes fully embedded in the education system, including a comprehensive review of the entire curriculum, which CovCAN reported here, the UK government has today announced that Nadhim Zahawi, the Education Secretary, says …

Watch Ice on Fire

Ice on Fire is a 2019 documentary which explores the potential extinction level event caused by arctic methane release, and the newly developed technologies that could reverse global warming by sequestering carbon out of the atmosphere. The film premiered to a standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJFx_geNL5s

State of Climate Action 2021

COP26 has inspired the production of a report from World Resources Institute entitled "State of Climate Action 2021" which says that to keep the window open to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal to limit global warming to 1.5°C, transformations must occur across every sector at far faster pace than recent trends. The report, authored by the UN High-Level Climate Champions, Climate …

Breakthrough Agenda

At COP26 in Glasgow, more than 40 countries launched the Breakthrough Agenda – a commitment to work together internationally this decade to accelerate the development and deployment of the clean technologies and sustainable solutions needed to meet the Paris Agreement goals, ensuring they are affordable and accessible for all. Despite different national circumstances, these nations will endeavour to work together …

Global Energy Alliance

The Global Energy Alliance aims to bring together stakeholders that would otherwise remain fragmented, and enable transformational programs to flourish. At COP26, The Global Energy Alliance for People & Planet announced a Call for Transformational Country Partnerships, which will offer financial and technical assistance to countries with the vision, commitment, and highest level of leadership to advance major national programs …

Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ)

The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) was launched in April 2021 by Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and UK Prime Minister Johnson’s Finance Adviser for COP26, and the COP26 Private Finance Hub in partnership with the UNFCCC Climate Action Champions, the Race to Zero campaign and the COP26 Presidency. Bringing together existing and …

Militarism Fuels Climate Crisis

The UK government spent around £44.6 billion on defence in 2020-21 and this will increase by about 10% and 15% in the coming years . In the 2021 budget the government pledged £15 billion for 2021-22 as part of the Net Zero Strategy, In November 2021, the UK branch of the Global Campaign on Military Spending (GCOMS UK ) published …

Watch COP26 Live

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Coventry Shamefully Far Behind in Carbon Ambition

The Renewables in Cities 2021 Global Status Report shows that more than 1 billion people – about 25% of the urban population – live in a city with a renewable energy target and/or policy. But the citizens of Coventry are not among them. Coventry has neither a target date to become net zero nor a strategy for how to reduce …

Gigafactory Update October 2021

A public/private joint venture between Coventry City Council and Coventry Airport Ltd, has now unveiled further plans to develop the UK’s largest battery Gigafactory as it explores investment opportunities with battery manufacturers from around the globe. The plan is for the Gigafactory to begin supplying high-tech batteries for electric vehicles from 2025. It would be the result of a £2.5bn …

Forthcoming Events

COP26 Regional Roadshow - Transport Expo

Coventry City Council will be hosting an exclusive Transport Expo event at Coventry University Technology Park taking place on 10 and 11 November to coincide with the Transport and Built Environment days of COP26, which is being held in Glasgow this year. This Transport Expo features an exclusive tour of the National Transport Design Centre to reveal innovative prototypes of low …

Green Film Festival

From 3 to 14 November the UK Green Film Festival will screen some of the very best films from around the world, exploring some of the big environmental issues of the day. A new wave of climate activists is rising, concerned and angry about our future in an ever warming world. Are people listening? Will governments care? Follow this link …

Climate Change and Women, Peace and Security: Defending the Future

United Nations Association UK will bring together a panel of experts on 10 November in an online event to discuss the gender-climate-security nexus, and how the global community can better integrate agendas in these areas to address risks posed to those most vulnerable. This is both the year of 26th UN Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP 26) and also …