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The Day After Earth Day
UKYCC | HARRY HOLMES 2020 has been a long four months. One could be forgiven for letting usual observances and events pass without...
Apr 22, 20204 min read


Support the UCU Strikes
UKYCC fully supports the UCU strike action and would encourage other environmentalists to support it too.
Feb 19, 20202 min read


PREVENT response
We stand in solidarity with those targeted unnecessarily under PREVENT and other forms of state sanctioned harassment.
Jan 13, 20202 min read


Where do we go as a climate movement?
HARRY HOLMES We're writing this as the results come in for the 2019 General Election. It's not looking good for the planet...
Dec 13, 20192 min read


#youthwashing: the fossil fuel industries latest marketing tool
EILIDH ROBB Almost a year ago, youth climate activist and founder of the Fridays for Future youth strikes movement, Greta Thunberg, hit hard
Dec 7, 20193 min read


#MakeThemPay: Climate Justice For Brazil
GUEST BLOG: IGOR VIEIRA Hello everyone, my name is Igor Vieira. I am from northeast Brazil, the most vulnerable region to the impacts of...
Dec 5, 20192 min read


A Country and its Environmental Chaos: Oil in the Ocean Blue
GUEST BLOG: IGOR VIEIRA Though it’s hard to believe, things are more turbulent than ever in Brazil. In recent months...
Oct 24, 20198 min read


Why are the west so self-obsessed?
EILIDH ROBB Brazilians in the North East have been rushing to the ocean now to clean up a massive toxic oil spill that has been polluting
Oct 22, 20193 min read
Ubuntu and the Climate Crisis
MILLION BELAY In Ubuntu the right philosophy for the relationships that we...
Sep 17, 20194 min read


Climate Striking 101
REBECKA BERGH Wait - what’s happening?! Young people are calling for everyone across the planet to disrupt business as usual by joining the
Sep 15, 20194 min read


There's (Literally) a Whole World of Alternatives
MARK ROBINSON Blog 5 of 5 in UKYCC's Systems Change Not Climate Change blog series. Click here to find the first four blogs. Systems...
Aug 26, 20197 min read


What Might Systems Change Look Like? Useful Theories and Models
CHIRSTY MCFADYEN Blog 4 of 5 in UKYCC's Systems Change Not Climate Change Series. Click here for blogs 1, 2 and 3. If you’ve read our...
Aug 20, 20194 min read


Why Climate Justice Means Fighting for All Justice
KATJA GARSON Blog 3 of 5 in UKYCC's Systems Change Not Climate Change series. Follow these links to read blog 1 and blog 2. Why are we...
Aug 14, 20195 min read


Beyond Trump and Toothbrushes: The Socioeconomic System Causing Climate Change
ELLIE WHITLOCK Blog 2 of 5 in UKYCC's Systems Change Not Climate Change series. Blog 1 available here. In these politically dystopian...
Aug 11, 20194 min read


Ecosystems and Ecological Breakdown
Blog 1 of 5 in UKYCC's Systems Change Not Climate Change series. Ecosystems, which can be defined as ‘all the living things in an area...
Aug 7, 20195 min read


Claire the COP President
SARAH DOBSON With leaders elected, cabinet shuffles & the 24 hour news cycle at breakneck speed, it’s completely understandable if
Jul 25, 20192 min read


Boris the British PM
EILIDH ROBB So, as he struts into Number 10 with a spectacular array of racism, classism, misogyny & homophobia to toot it’s fair to
Jul 25, 20194 min read


(Un)Learning about Girls & Women for Intersectional Climate Justice: 7 Stories from Across The World
EMILY B. N'DOMBAXE DOLA writes about powerful women at the UN climate conferences
Jun 22, 201913 min read
Playing the China Card
EILIDH ROBB The conversation goes like this: Them: “So what do you do?” Me: “I campaign on the climate crisis.” Them: “Oh yes, I’ve heard of
Jun 17, 20193 min read


What is SB50 and Why Does it Matter?
LUCY JORDAN SB50. Yet another acronym to add to the UNFCCC’s extensive list. This one, however, refers to the 50th Meeting of the...
Jun 15, 20194 min read
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