Climate change solutions UK
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of UK community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism discovering, innovating and implementing Climate change solutions. Learn about how communities positively impact through different projects and collaborations.
Peatlands urgently need to be restored for UK to meet emissions targets, theconversation.com (Dec 02, 2024) - We need a ‘Lucas Plan’ for current military spending on technology - meaning a transition of most of those skills and facilities to green and civilian ends, Daily Alternative (Oct 20, 2024)
- Labour investment in cycling and walking will be unprecedented, says Louise Haigh, theguardian.com (Aug 20, 2024)
Events
February, 2024 — Show the love, every February, growing public support for climate action through local events, heartfelt conversations and green heart craftivism in every corner of the country, theclimatecoalition.org- Jun 7 - 15, 2025 (Sat-Sun) — Great Big Green Week, celebrating communities taking action to tackle climate change and protect green spaces, greatbiggreenweek.com
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)
Solutions by topic
Food
see A People's Food Policy, Environment, Policy proposals 6.4 & 6.5
Community energy
Housing
- Climate Emergency Retrofit Guide, leti.london, added 12:28, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
"Working collectively with LETI on developing this guide has been both a learning and empowering experience. We are all on a journey of upskilling amid the Climate Emergency, but we must do it quickly, and the collaborative approach is the only way. ACAN are focusing on both public engagement on retrofit, with the launch of our campaign Households Declare, and also cross industry collaboration working with and supporting other campaigns such as the AJ's Retrofirst campaign. We are excited for the launch of this guide as we truly believe it will serve the industry as a base platform for understanding the scale of the challenge but also inspire ways in which we can urgently, effectively, and safely address and replicate solutions at scale." Sara Edmonds ACAN
- Passivhaus, climateemergency.uk
Land use
Making Sense of Land Use, Sep 3, 2019 sharedassets.org.uk
Towards sustainable economies
- Green New Deal, neweconomics.org
Sustainable livelihood
A report commissioned by the 4 Day Week campaign from Platform London, and published in May 2021, found that shifting to a four-day working week without loss of pay could shrink the UK's carbon footprint by 127 million tonnes per year by 2025. This represents a reduction of 21.3%, and is more than the entire carbon footprint of Switzerland....Stop the clock, The environmental benefits of a shorter working week,
Resources
- Zero Carbon Britain, Centre for Alternative Technology
- Climate Action Co-Benefits Toolkit, Cutting carbon and improving people's lives, ashden.org
- Solutions, climateemergency.uk
- Ten bold Ideas from Possible
- 31 Climate Actions for Councils, ashden.org added 16:14, 5 February 2020 (UTC), date not found on web page
See also: Carbon literacy, List of climate assemblies, Towards a more democratic and climate friendly way of meeting housing need across England, Visions, Visions UK
local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages