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Meet the Member – Pledgeball

Pledgeball is an initiative that encourages millions of people in the football community to make a small, easy change to their lifestyle to collectively...

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Real climate leadership means ending finance for fossil fuels

If the UK is going to be a good host for COP26 and pave the way for rapid transition, its climate policies need to be more coherent – and it could start...

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‘Moment of truth’ to act on climate says UN’s Guterres

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned today that the planet is waging a “suicidal” war on the natural world. We are facing a ‘moment of...

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Meet the member – African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)

The African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) aims to strengthen the capacity and policies of African countries and institutions to harness science,...

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Time to mobilise like we mean it

Excerpt from A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency by Seth Klein Lessons from the Second World War have guided our pandemic response....

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Tour tomorrow, today! Why we made a travel guide to an imaginary future city

In the absence of opportunities to travel under The Current Circumstance, we thought you might enjoy a bit of armchair exploration instead—and so we’re...

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Meet the Member – Scientists for Global Responsibility

Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) is a UK based membership organisation promoting responsible science and technology. We caught up with Executive...

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Fossil fuel disarmament

Three years ago, on 7 July 2017, something quite remarkable happened. After decades of trying to get the nuclear powers to fulfil their commitments under...

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Let’s work with nature and let nature work with us

I was reminded by Facebook yesterday that I had posted a picture of my sunglasses 5 years ago. One balmy June evening, I had dug my bike out from the back...