Climate Majority Project News Today

A professional touring production by Lj Hope Productions is coming to town.

All those climate scientists talking about temperature recently? This is what it means for us, right here, right now, and for the rest of our lives

Case delays are seeing "justice denied", according to a former Met chief - with arrests from demonstrations on top of significant government cuts to the courts system leaving a huge backlog. So are longer hours the answer?

What if, when the next disaster hits – whatever its cause or location – the most numerous, doable and beneficial ideas lying around were those that support the rebuilding of local economies. This is what I call “disaster localization”.

As the realities of climate change begin to bite, there’s a new problem emerging: the voices suggesting it’s too late to stop looming, species-ending catastrophe.

Climate anxiety is affecting many, especially young people, but what they need most is hope

In a two-hour video posted on YouTube in 2021, Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam looks directly into the camera as he imparts a message to young people about the supposed reality of future climate change.

The real danger of the way CoP28 ended with a ‘positive’ outcome is that it makes it seem as if something has been achieved. Whereas all that has been achieved, after 28 years, is a toothless statement of the obvious: that we need to transition away from fossil fuels.

Global network Local Futures, organiser of the three-day event, calls for a gravitation to localised systems to support local economies and sustainable communities. It’s about “shifting power from transnational corporations to genuinely democratic institutions, while simultaneously building up regional self-reliance.”

Swampy responded to the scrapping of the HS2 leg between Birmingham and Manchester by dubbing the project a ‘white elephant’.