climate emergency

Local government climate action with Rachel Coxcoon

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Local government climate action with Rachel Coxcoon
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Rachel Coxcoon is the founder and director of ClimateGuide, cabinet member for climate change and forward planning at Cotswold District Council and a PhD student. She talks about the power of local governance within the climate emergency, constructing a robust local plan and challenges such as budgets and politics.

Environmental activism

We are in a climate emergency.  There was a time when there was a need to persuade people of the reality of increasing greenhouse gases and the consequential dangers.  In the light of acceptance, the voice of the denier has largely disappeared.  However, significant mitigation and adaptation are required, and the question now is, are …

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Environmental activism with John Grant

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Environmental activism with John Grant
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John Grant is Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Construction and Climate Change at Sheffield Hallam University. John has been involved with environmental activism for many years to sound the alarm on the climate emergency and shares his thoughts and experiences of protesting.

What I learned about climate change from Dr James Dyke

Dr James Dyke gave a pragmatic and powerful account of the Earth’s state of play, climate change and problematic solutions in our podcast conversation. Here, in this blog, I share his wisdom. How James became interested in climate change James was doing his dream job at an incredible institute, looking for life elsewhere in the universe. However, …

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Earth systems and climate change with Dr James Dyke

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Earth systems and climate change with Dr James Dyke
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Dr James Dyke is Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter. He shares his expert insight into climate change, explaining how humans have and continue to impact earth systems to the detriment of all life and the issues surrounding solutions.