Co-designing climate action with community groups

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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 […]

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 […]

Spring Budget comment from Ashden

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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 […]

The route out of recession is investment in green industrial revolution

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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 London to Leeds, local authorities drive climate action

BrookERS volunteers clearing rubbish from Pymmes Brook in Edmonton, Enfield. Working with local residents, the collaboration between Thames 21 and Enfield Council has restored rivers and created new ponds, woods and wetlands to build climate resilience in north London. Winner of the 2023 Ashden Award for Local Nature Recoverers, celebrating inclusive, community-focused adaptation initiatives. Credit: Josh Caius/Ashden

First published in Unlock Net Zero. National progress to net zero is threatened by under-investment and stop-start policies. So it’s welcome news that, in many cases, cities and communities are driving forward the green transition in their area. Local authorities, in particular, have recognised that climate action can improve people’s lives through lower energy bills, […]

London under-prepared for flooding and extreme heat, new report warns

The interim report of the London Climate Resilience Review should prompt decision-makers to bring proven solutions from around the UK to the capital, says climate charity Ashden.   London boroughs, the Greater London Authority and national government must act now to protect the capital’s people, businesses and nature. The report, which Ashden submitted evidence to and […]

Energy innovation: Sparking change in low-income communities

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Last year, 7.9 million people had to borrow money to pay their energy bills. More than 1 million children live in households that have to limit their use of heating and hot water. Faced with this energy crisis, how can we make sure clean energy products, services and technologies improve the lives of people on […]

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