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, …
Climate Emergency Camden has joined Stay Grounded- a global network working to reduce the impact of aviation. Aviation is the most climate damaging form of transport and one of the fastest growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions. In the next two decades, the industry expects a doubling of air passengers. A massive global wave of aviation …
Time is fast running out. Climate Emergency Camden joined with groups from around the country to call on the government to halt all future fossil fuel extraction projects immediately. With thousands in attendance, we stood and sat in the road together and demanded: NO NEW OIL, tax big polluters and billionaires, ENERGY FOR ALL, insulate our homes, and …
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Members of Climate Emergency Camden have set up a platform to field candidates in May's local elections. it is proposed to support one independent candidate in each ward in Camden, whose remit will be to prioritise action on the climate and ecological emergency. Candidates will support the aims of Climate Emergency Camden, and sign up …
CEC's Built Environment Group has submitted a response to Camden's consultation on the Site Allocation Local Plan. Climate Emergency Camden does not think that the plans for proposed development are “sound” in relation to the urgent need to mitigate climate change and ecological damage globally, as they do not consider the impact of 'embodied carbon' …
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We were heartened to hear embodied carbon and retrofit discussed at the Housing Scrutiny Committee on 8th December. The ability of retrofit to reduce carbon emissions over the next 20 years is of prime importance to mitigate climate change. The problem with the ‘whole life carbon’ methodology that is often put forward to justify demolition …
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