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For the first time at a key climate summit, the F word got a mention in the final text: fossil fuels. Yet even then, extensive lobbying ended with the word...

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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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This year’s COP27 took place in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt, at a time of multiple threats facing the international community. Things do not look good. A fossil...

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Norway is making the world’s fastest transition to zero emissions road transport. Over half of all cars sold in the country are electric vehicles (EVs),...

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Rapid Transition Alliance contributor Matt Rendell’s new book, Colombia Es Pasión, was awarded ‘Cycling Book of the Year’ 2021, and it is about much...

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2022 was a year punctuated by climate disasters. The destruction wrought by climate impacts around the world was, at times, difficult to fully comprehend....

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Rich countries cause human movement – in a warming world they need to protect and accept those forced to flee. Mo Farah, one of the greatest distance...

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Last week the Climate Change Committee warned that time is running out for realistic commitments to tackle the climate crisis. The Committee highlighted...

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Vaccine Verse by the Plague Poets This volume of poetry from troubling times emerges on National Poetry Day and at a time when global and local challenges...