Climate Emergency Declaration – Our work to keep up the pressure
We have been working hard to keep the pressure of Birmingham City Council in relation to the importance of delivering carbon reductions in our city and how key the Climate Emergency Declaration is to this. The following letter and briefing was sent to all Birmingham...
Climate Campaign
Climate change is a theme across all of Birmingham Friends of the Earth’s campaigns, and the issues we focus on always represent elements of how Birmingham might respond to the climate crisis. Leading up to and following on from the council declaration of a climate...
Event: Climate Emergency: Fast Forward Birmingham
Join us on Monday 24 February, 6:30pm until 9pm at The Warehouse Cafe, 54-57 Allison Street, B55TH. *About this Event* Birmingham is on a mission to become carbon neutral by 2030. What do we imagine our city of the future could look like? What transformation do we...
Campaigning on the climate emergency
2019 was a big year for the climate movement, with a whole range of trends pushing the issue up the political and media agendas. School children all over the world followed Greta Thunberg out of their classrooms and onto the streets as part of the Fridays for Future...
Fossil Fuels and their effects
I’m sure that we are all aware that China and India have become two of the powerhouse economies of the modern world. More than 50% of the world’s population live in these countries. These innovative “forward-thinking” nations are primarily still powered by fossil...
Birmingham Youth Strike for Climate
By Olivia Wainwright On Friday 15th February, I sat down outside Birmingham City Council House for the first time. I was on strike from school, protesting about how little The Government are doing to tackle and even recognise the issue of climate change. Just a month...
