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Great Big Green Week 24 Sept - 2 Oct 2022

At the first Great Big Green Week , held in 2021, over 5000 events celebrated how UK communities are taking action to tackle climate change and protect green spaces, and encouraged others to get involved too. It was the largest event for climate and nature ever seen in the UK. On their website greatbiggreenweek.com you can become an organiser, register …

World's First Urban Air Port Opened in Coventry

Urban-Air Port Ltd have opened Air One – the world’s first fully operational Urban-Air Port for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and drone technology in what used to be a Westminster Road Car Park near Coventry Station. The public are invited to the opening from 28 April to 14 May. Book your visit here You can also hear …

Shravani Sharma in Conversation Part 1

Shravani Sharma is an Urban and Transport Planner currently pursuing her PhD in Transport and Human Factors at Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick under the Engineering Physical Science and Research Council, UKRI Award. She is particularly interested in travel choices and wellbeing, travel behaviour, transport and social exclusion, intelligent mobility, active and sustainable mobility and policymaking. Her focus has …

Shravani Sharma in Conversation Part 2

Building Coventry's Grassroots Climate Alliance

On 7 May, Coventry Green New Deal will be organising a meeting to bring together grassroots climate activists and organisations, individuals, groups and communities who want a stake in shaping the way we address climate change in Coventry. The meeting will aim to form a working coalition of these people. Spaces are limited, so if you are active in driving …

New Strategy for Sustainability and Climate Change Education

On 21 April 2022, the Department for Education (DfE) published a policy paper for English schools entitled Sustainability and climate change: a strategy for the education and children’s services systems It says the DfE has an important role to play in all aspects of sustainability, and the area in which it has most work to do is reducing England's environmental …

Action for Climate Empowerment

Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) is a term adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to denote work under Article 6 of the Convention (1992) and Article 12 of the Paris Agreement. The over-arching goal of ACE is to empower all members of society to engage in climate action, through education, training, public awareness, public participation, …

Forthcoming Events

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