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Dec 7, 20193 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
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Dec 5, 20192 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...
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Oct 24, 20198 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...
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Oct 22, 20193 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
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Sep 17, 20194 min read
Ubuntu and the Climate Crisis
MILLION BELAY In Ubuntu the right philosophy for the relationships that we...
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Sep 15, 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
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Aug 26, 20197 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...
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Aug 20, 20194 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...
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Aug 14, 20195 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...
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Aug 11, 20194 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...
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Aug 7, 20195 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...
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Jul 25, 20192 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
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Jul 25, 20194 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
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Jun 22, 201913 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
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Jun 17, 20193 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
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Jun 15, 20194 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...
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Jun 13, 20194 min read
What a Great British load of nonsense
EILIDH ROBB It’s no secret that the world’s most “powerful” nations have built their ivory towers from the pursuit of capitalism at all...
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Jun 13, 20193 min read
JACINDA, WE STAN.
There is a new generation of female leaders challenging the establishment. And UKYCC is here for it.
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Jun 13, 20195 min read
The Not So Free Molecule
Apparently freedom now comes in the form of fossil gas: gas exported from America to the rest of the world, that is...
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Jun 13, 20193 min read
FEATURED: Youth Voices on climate justice: Borokinni, 19, Nigeria
"What does Climate Justice Mean to me? Having graduated with a Degree in Human Physiology, many people wondered why I turned out as a...
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