CEC has campaigned with the Save Museum Street campaign group to stop the harmful redevelopment of Selkirk House. An individual supporter of the Save Museum Street Coalition is now taking legal action against Camden Council over its failure to look at alternatives to tall buildings and demolition in a conservation area. Can you contribute to the campaign? …
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CEC invited Future Transport London to a meeting to discuss the Camden Highline. What we learned was very concerning. This was summarised in our letter to the CNJ published 25th April: "Camden Council needs to think for itself about how to reduce carbon emissions and other forms of ecological harm. Unfortunately, the evidence is that …
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CEC joined with housing activists to discuss the crisis in housing in Camden. CEC's contribution focussed on the need for maintenance and retrofit: We urgently need homes that are safe, warm and dry, and fit for the future. This is a human right. We also urgently need action to ensure our planet is safe for …
CEC's letter to the Ham and High: Is the climate putting your pension at risk—and vice versa? Until recently, those of us who tried to understand the interactions between climate breakdown and pensions could be stymied by paywalls or impenetrable jargon. That changed in 2023, when critiques of economic modelling broke through to the mainstream, exposing …
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Camden Friends of the Earth are campaigning for action on insulating Camden's homes. Please help by signing the petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/ask-keir-starmer-mp-to-take-action-for-warm-homes
As part of the SAVE MUSEUM STREET campaign group CEC is opposing the unnecessary demolition of several existing buildings in Bloomsbury, including a 17 storey concrete framed tower. In a cynical move, the new owner is seeking to push through scheme against all climate logic: we cannot afford this wasteful approach to development if we …
Climate Emergency Camden joined Camden XR and XR Walkers to walk through the streets and parks of Camden to join the Big One, a 4 day action where people from all groups and movements gathered throughout Westminster and at the Houses of Parliament to hold the government to account on the climate and ecological emergency. …
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Climate Emergency Camden joined Zero Hour and Camden for the CE Bill for a meeting with Georgia Gould. The Agenda was as follows: update Georgia on the CE Bill campaign; and ask her how best we can work together to promote the Bill publicly, across the Labour Party movement, and ahead of Labour's annual conference; …
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Climate Emergency Camden has written to the Council to express dismay at their proposal to sell the Holmes Road Depot to a private company for redevelopment, 2 years after it was retrofitted at a cost of £8.4m. To throw away this investment in insulation and a low-carbon heating system, which itself has a carbon cost, …
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