2019

• New climate emergency network launched to link schools across B&NES, Dec 23^[1]
• City Council responds to Oxford Citizens' Assembly on Climate Change and outlines £19m climate emergency budget, Dec 16^[2]
• Green new deal for Nottingham wins top Guardian award, Nov 27^[3] Nottingham city council announced in January that it intended to become the UK's first carbon-neutral city by 2028.
• Opposition leaders call on Johnson to join in TV climate debate, Nov 19^[4]
• Majority of UK public back 2030 zero-carbon target – poll, Nov 7^[5]
• Climate change: Thousands invited to join citizens' assembly, Nov 2^[6]
• Parliamentary Citizens' Assembly on Climate Change – A first step, but a devastating missed opportunity, Extinction Rebellion, Nov 2^[7]

References

• Sleepy Cambridgeshire village invites Swedish climate experts to help tackle climate emergency, Oct 30^[1]
• Britain now G7's biggest net importer of CO2 emissions per capita, says ONS, Oct 21^[2]
• To fight climate change, science must be mobilised like it was in World War II, Oct 21^[3]
• What does Greta Thunberg's call for equity mean? Oct 3^[4]

References

• Tyndall Carbon Targeter helps Local Authorities respond to their Climate Emergency, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Sep 23^[1]

If world leaders choose to fail us, my generation will never forgive them, Greta Thunberg, Sep 23^[2]

For the sake of life on Earth, we must put a limit on wealth, George Monbiot, Sep 19^[3]

• Faster pace of climate change is 'scary', former chief scientist says, Sep 16^[4]
• A/UK has been working with Extinction Rebellion to develop a Future Democracy Hub, now launching, Sep 7^[5]

Ditch cars to meet climate change targets, say MPs, Aug 22^[6]

• Uni bans burgers: No more beef to be sold on campus as students combat global warming, Aug 13^[7]

References

• England region plans world-first for climate change teaching, Jul 30^[1]
• Climate more pressing than Brexit, say 71% of Britons, Jul 26^[2]
• First climate assembly in UK draws up wishlist for council action, Jul 20^[3]
• Corbyn calls for UK to stop passing the buck on climate change to poorer countries, Jul 14^[4]
• Enough of the climate nightmare. It's time to paint the dream, Ed Miliband, Jul 4^[5]
• Cambridgeshire organisation launches radical response to climate emergency, Jun 13^[6]
• Theresa May commits to net zero UK carbon emissions by 2050, Jun 11^[7]

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Much shorter working weeks needed to tackle climate crisis, May 22^[1]

• 'This is a wake-up call': the villagers who could be Britain's first climate refugees, May 18^[2]
• Thousands of parents take to the streets to demand action on climate change, May 13^[3]
• UK Parliament Declares Environment and Climate Emergency, Claire Mitchell, May 1^[4]
• Thousands block roads in Extinction Rebellion protests across London news, Apr 15^[5]
• Ending climate change requires the end of capitalism. Have we got the stomach for it? Phil McDuff, Mar 18^[6]
• UK's CO2 emissions fell for record sixth consecutive year in 2018, Mar 4^[7]

References

• A report from the #SchoolStrike, AlterNatives - personal stories of making change, Feb 17^[1]
• Climate strike: UK school pupils take part in call for urgent action, Feb 15^[2]
• UK pupils to join global strike over climate change crisis, Feb 8^[3]
• Machynlleth declares 'climate emergency', Jan 24^[4]
• Britain has shifted 30% of its electricity away from fossil fuels in just nine years, Jan 10^[5]
• Scarborough Council declares Climate Emergency in first major step to combat global warming, Jan 8^[6]

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