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The elephant in the room: Fossil fuel non-proliferationThere is a huge elephant in the world of climate policy that no one wants to name. The burning of fossil fuels is the primary cause of the current climate...
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The elephant in the room: Fossil fuel non-proliferationThere is a huge elephant in the world of climate policy that no one wants to name. The burning of fossil fuels is the primary cause of the current climate...
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Exit apocalypse – New Internationalist magazine explores how to avoid climate breakdownMy nine-year-old son, Laurie, looked up at me from the sofa the other day. ‘I know!’ he said, apropos of nothing. ‘What if we found something to put...
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What would a climate emergency plan look like?Across the world, national and local governments are declaring a climate emergency on the back of dire warnings from UN scientists about the need for urgent...
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The “transformation points” towards decarbonisationWe need large scale, systemic change if we are to meet the 1.5˚c warming target set out in the IPCC Paris Agreements. In this guest post, Lisa Luna from...
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Museum of Rapid Transition: museums in a world facing existential crisisHistory teaches us nothing,’ wrote the Russian medievalist Vasily Klyuchesvsky, ‘but only punishes [us] for not learning its lessons’. Somewhere in...
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How Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly helped climate actionHolding a Citizens’ Assembly on climate action is one of just three demands by the headline-grabbing activists of Extinction Rebellion, whose...
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Given Half a Chance: Ten Ways to Save the WorldEnvironmentalist Edward Davey’s new book, Given Half a Chance: Ten Ways to Save the World shows how little it would take to set a rapid transition in...
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Can design catalyse transition? Thinkers and practitioners from a range of disciplines explore possibilities of rapid transitionIn the first of an occasional series on what members of the Alliance are doing in the field of rapid transition, we hear from Ruth Potts of Schumacher...
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A civic plan for a climate emergency; building the 1.5 degree, socially-just cityLeeds City Council became the latest local government body to pass a resolution declaring a climate emergency on Wednesday, 27th March. It becomes part of a...