Posted on December 23, 2020 at 15:17 0 Comments 0 Likes
Despite the twenty-five COP (Council of Parties) meetings organized since 1995 by the UNFCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) which is tasked with strengthening the global response to climate change; there is little or no sign they’ve had any impact at all on the soaring levels of green-house gasses.
2020, despite a significant ramping up of renewables, is likely to be another year in which all the wrong sorts of records have been broken. It’ll…
ContinuePosted on December 9, 2020 at 21:00 0 Comments 0 Likes
The Silvertown Tunnel must be stopped! In 2018 London’s mayor pledged that by 2030 the capital would have air pollution concentrations within the WHO (World Health Organization) guidelines for fine particulate matter. The Silvertown Tunnel will scupper this policy aspiration. Currently at £2 billion, twice the original budget; it involves the construction of a four-lane carriageway under the Thames beside the existing Blackwall Tunnel. No road building project has ever reduced traffic and…
ContinuePosted on December 5, 2020 at 22:00 0 Comments 0 Likes
Hackney Stand up to Racism’s Christmas fundraiser is again dedicated to supporting Care for Calais. Again Sustainable Hackney is glad to support this initiative, but not on the other hand glad our support is…
Posted on December 5, 2020 at 18:30 0 Comments 0 Likes
Education for Sustainability is a priority work-stream of Sustainable Hackney and our ambition is to see the borough become a beacon for EfS. So when the Head of Ofsted, Amanda Spielman, this week dismissed out of hand the opportunity to make schools’ curricula responsive to the existential threat of climate change and the ecological crisis; it was…
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