Climate change solutions UK

This article focuses on information specific to the United Kingdom. Please see our Climate change solutions page for a topic overview.

Zero Carbon Britain

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Solutions for cities

  • Climate Action Co-Benefits Toolkit, Cutting carbon and improving people’s lives, ashden.org


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Solutions by topic

Community energy

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Food

see A People’s Food Policy, Environment, Policy proposals 6.4 & 6.5

Housing

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Land use

Making Sense of Land Use, Sep 3, 2019 sharedassets.org.uk

News and comment

2021

‘Reservoirs of life’: how hedgerows can help the UK reach net zero in 2050, Feb 2 [1] ...Biodiversity UK news

2020

Missing in action: natural climate solutions in England's national parks. [2] Sep 29

The climate decade: The UK is full of ‘oven-ready’ solutions. [3] Feb 24

‘Build local’ innovation and citizen power key to zero-carbon goals. [4] Feb 7

Ofgem sets out nine-point plan to prioritise climate crisis. [5] Feb 3

The power of councils in the climate era by @FutureGov. [6] Jan 23

Make big polluters pay for mass tree planting, officials say. [7] Jan 23

Major shift in UK land use needed to deliver Net Zero emissions, Committee on Climate Change. [8] Jan 23

New UK housing 'dominated by roads'. [9] "... too many highways engineers are still approving roads that do not fully account for pedestrians and cyclists." Prof Matthew Carmona, University College London. Government poll suggests 76% of people think that for the sake of the environment, everyone should reduce their driving. Jan 21 ...Towards a more democratic and climate friendly way of meeting housing need across England

2019

Self-authoring and self-transforming communities should be our goal. But new citizens need personal development, too. [10] Nov 20

Is #GE2019 really going to become the "climate election"? The polls suggest that parties could make it so. [11] Nov 13

Technology will not save us from climate change – but imagining new forms of society will. [12] Oct 28

The climate crisis issue that no one is talking about? Your gas boiler. [13] Oct 17

Cross-sector ‘third spaces’ incubate social, climate solutions. [14] Oct 9

Riba Stirling Prize: Norwich council estate wins architecture award. [15] Oct 8 ...Norfolk

CAT - New hub and innovation lab to share zero carbon solutions. [16] Jul 29

Much shorter working weeks needed to tackle climate crisis. [17] May 22 ...UK Climate news 2014 - 2019

Resources

Networks

  • Rapid Transition Alliance, Rapid economic transition, including widespread behaviour change to sustainable lifestyles, is necessary to live within planetary ecological boundaries and to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees. Rapid transition shows examples of evidence-based hope for change whose speed and potential scale will steer us towards staying within those boundaries and which advance social justice. Content published under a Creative Commons license. added 14:51, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Other resources

  • 31 Climate Actions for Councils, ashden.org added 16:14, 5 February 2020 (UTC), date not found on web page

See also

local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages

References

  1. ↑ theguardian.com
  2. ↑ @friends_earth
  3. ↑ eciu.net
  4. ↑ ashden.org
  5. ↑ theguardian.com
  6. ↑ blog.wearefuturegov.com
  7. ↑ theguardian.com
  8. ↑ theccc.org.uk
  9. ↑ BBC News
  10. ↑ The Alternative UK
  11. ↑ The Alternative UK
  12. ↑ theconversation.com
  13. ↑ wired.co.uk
  14. ↑ Shareable
  15. ↑ BBC News
  16. ↑ cat.org.uk
  17. ↑ The Guardian
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