Co-designing climate action with community groups
Image: Camden Think & Do’s Sharing Space – a community project encouraging climate action. Credit: Sarah Bower/Ashden Working with community groups helps councils deliver effective climate action. It means tackling local priorities in an inclusive way, with results that are welcomed by residents. It’s an approach that can make projects like boosting green transport and […]
Solar Sisters and forest guardians: explore climate innovation for a fairer, greener world
Rooftop power stations, rainforest defenders and refugee pioneers are in contention for this year’s Ashden Awards. The annual awards boost outstanding, inclusive climate innovation in the UK and Global South. Innovation that creates a fairer and more sustainable future – a future where green businesses thrive, nature flourishes, and communities own and enjoy the benefits […]
Introducing the 2024 Ashden Awards judges
The annual Ashden Awards boost outstanding, inclusive climate innovation. Panels of expert judges have a key role in the process – examining the entries, interviewing the people behind them, and debating who should be honoured with a prize. Ahead of the announcement of the award finalists, we’d like to thank the fantastic judges helping us […]
Celebrating ‘Solar Sisterhood’ power on International Women’s Day
This International Women’s Day (8 March), we are shining a light on the women who make renewable energy happen – particularly among the world’s poorer communities where energy access is a considerable challenge. This year’s International Women’s Day has the theme ‘Invest in women: Accelerate progress’. Traditionally, women have been far down the line after […]
Spring Budget comment from Ashden
The Chancellor’s Spring Budget predictably majored on pre-election giveaways and political dividing lines, but will do nothing for those living in cold, damp, expensive to heat homes or for local authorities struggling to provide basic services, says climate solutions charity Ashden. “Apart from some welcome extensions to existing government schemes, such as a relatively small […]
Trust, tea and cake and fuel community energy success
Main image: SELCE install solar panels on a school roof Community energy projects can lower emissions, tackle fuel poverty and spark passion for a more sustainable future. But only if they win the trust of local people. Here’s how two organisations, in Yorkshire and London, are doing just that. The Tea and PV project, from […]
How Manchester’s sponge park soaks away flood risk
The route out of recession is investment in green industrial revolution
In response to today’s news that the UK fell into recession during the final three months of last year, Dr Ashok Sinha, CEO of climate solutions charity Ashden, said: “The UK economy will continue to chronically underperform until we deliver the longer overdue investment needed for a green industrial revolution. In particular that means investing […]
Backtracking on the green agenda makes no sense – for the economy, the climate, or people
Today’s expected announcement that Labour will no longer commit to investing £28bn a year in a green prosperity plan if it wins the next election comes against the backdrop of another announcement today by the Copernicus Institute that global temperatures have surpassed the 1.5°C threshold for a year, diverging from the Paris Agreement’s long-term goal. January 2024 […]
From the Cotswolds to Cameroon: climate innovators exchange expertise in protecting and restoring nature through farming.
“They’re 10 metres apart – we must write that down!” Wrapped up well against the chilly English November air, Jaïrus Guëdjo from Cameroon paces the distance between fruit trees in the picturesque hillside heritage orchard of FarmED’s Honeydale Farm – a regenerative agriculture demonstration farm and learning centre in the heart of the Cotswolds. “We […]