Philip Brown is the Secretary of the United Nations Association Coventry Branch which organises Coventry Climate Action Network.
This article was originally published on United Nations Association Coventry’s website. With recorded global temperatures hitting record highs and extreme weather events affecting people around the globe, the Conference of the Parties COP29 held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November 2024 … Continue reading →
The petition says: Run a public information campaign on the climate crisis Communicate clearly: 1) the science behind the climate crisis – how & why for the first time in the last year we’ve averaged 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels … Continue reading →
CovCAN member and Coventry Green Party Coordinator, Anne Patterson, is asking other CovCAN members to support Power for People’s campaign to obtain cross-party support for an amendment to the Great British Energy Bill by including community energy. She asks you … Continue reading →
Following the success of the tree giveaway scheme in the last two years, the West Midlands Combined Authority Environment Team in partnership with the Woodland Trust has tree saplings to give away at community events and to community groups between … Continue reading →
Greenpower Park is an area near Coventry Airport aimed at being a centre of excellence for battery technology and manufacturing. It already houses the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) and aims to house a West Midlands battery Gigafactory if funding … Continue reading →
On 23 September 2024, Swedish lithium-ion battery manufacturer Northvolt announced that it would make 1600 of its 6500 employees redundant “to match the needs of a reduced scale of operations” to meet “a challenging macroeconomic climate”. See CNBC among others … Continue reading →
This video produced by the Financial Times in 2022 explores carbon capture and storage which has become a key part of decarbonisation plans the world over. Supporters argue that we need a way to remove CO2 already in the atmosphere … Continue reading →
Lithium and lithium-ion batteries currently power devices including smartphones and electric cars and is currently the basis of storing solar and wind energy. The popularity of these batteries is due to their high energy density and efficiency and they are … Continue reading →
West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) is planning a new initiative aiming to improve air quality. As part of the project there is a network of sensors being installed across the region that will measure air quality on a hyper-local level. … Continue reading →
Coventry Energy Storage Limited (CES) is proposing a new energy storage facility located off Hodgetts Lane to the northwest of Burton Green as shown in the maps below. The energy storage facility will effectively serve to extend the existing electricity … Continue reading →