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Guilford’s new Climate Hub offers focal point for community
Zero Carbon Guildford has opened a Community Climate Hub in the town centre, aiming to bring the community together to build a climate action plan. Ben McCallan describes how ZERO got to this point and outlines the project’s aims. ZERO is a community-led initiative...
Climate Action: Are councils telling us what’s happening?
How are our local councils progressing with their climate action plans? How well are they keeping us in touch with their action? Sally Barnard and Alison Marshall have been investigating and report back on their findings. Nearly all councils in the SECA area have now...
Council Climate Pledgers Push For Change
As the South East region gears up for another round of local council elections in May, we talked to some of the councillors who signed SECA’s ABCD climate pledge last year. This blog from Thalia Griffiths reflects on the challenges they have found in keeping climate...
Campaign group issues league table of council climate plans
Climate Emergency UK has just published the first ever league tables comparing local authorities’ climate action plans. They show a wide variation in scores across the country, and will no doubt spark debate on which councils are leading from the front on climate and...
Net zero – or not zero!
Talk of “net zero carbon” emissions assumes future innovations will save us from the need to make big changes now. This blog by Tony Whitbread considers the risks we face by continuing with business as usual. “Net zero” carbon dioxide (CO2) is the idea that if you...
A COP Out in Glasgow?
While COP26 produced some positive forward steps, these fell far short of what is needed to save the world from climate disaster. In this blog, Tony Whitbread gives his personal take on the outcome of the Glasgow Climate Summit and suggests this grassroots pressure...