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Author: Calum McFarlane

Climate Emergency UK needs your help to rank local Councils on #climate #action…

23 December, 2022 Calum McFarlane Leave a comment

One of the things we try to do at CEM is scrutinise the actions (and the words!) of Manchester City…

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Posted in: Climate Emergency UK

(More) fine words won’t cut Manchester’s emissions – CEM responds to Cllr Shilton-Godwin’s guest post.

29 November, 2022 Calum McFarlane 1 Comment

Last week, CEM published a guest post from Councillor Mandie Shilton-Godwin, Labour Member for Chorlton Park and chair of Manchester…

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Guest Post from Mandie Shilton-Godwin, chair of MCC environmental scrutiny committee

25 November, 2022 Calum McFarlane Leave a comment

After Cllr. Mandie Shilton Godwin took over as chair of MCC’s environmental scrutiny committee earlier this year, we offered her…

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Posted in: Guest posts Filed under: Mandie, Shilton-Godwin

The city’s carbon budget is blown. Not that you’d notice.

14 November, 2022 Calum McFarlane Leave a comment

Back in September, we reported on how the Council approved a revised Framework that didn’t move the needle on the…

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Posted in: Bev Craig, Carbon Budgets Filed under: budget, carbon, foia, inaction

On Sacrifice

4 October, 2022 Calum McFarlane Leave a comment

Today we continue a (somewhat irregular) series of posts where CEM Core Group members consider what various “big emotions” mean…

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Posted in: Coming To Our Own Emotional Rescue Filed under: sacrifice

Watch Manchester’s Carbon Budget for the **21st Century** drain away by 2027…

21 September, 2022 Calum McFarlane Leave a comment

Based on the latest projections from Manchester’s own Climate Change ‘Agency’, at current course and speed the city will use…

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Posted in: Carbon Budgets

Carbon Budget Blowout in the Age of Consequences

20 September, 2022 Calum McFarlane 2 Comments

The Manchester Evening News recently reported on the fact that Manchester has essentially no chance of staying within the 15…

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Posted in: Carbon Budgets

Manchester’s Housing Strategy fails climate emergency honesty test: so what could be done differently?  

24 June, 2022 Calum McFarlane Leave a comment

As Manchester City Council’s new Housing Strategy was up for discussion in June’s Economy Scrutiny Committee, we wrote about the…

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Posted in: Economy Scrutiny Committee, Housing, TeamSF

We were wrong, ‘burning out’ over COP26 was totally worth it

1 April, 2022 Calum McFarlane Leave a comment

So here we are, 140 days after COP26 closed in Glasgow. And what a 140 days it’s been, full of…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: burnout, cop26

If you want to learn more about how to lobby your Councillors about #climate (or other issues!), read on below…

14 June, 2021 Calum McFarlane Leave a comment

Hope For The Future are a charity who descriobe their mission (in their own words) as: Hope for the Future…

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Posted in: How to, Manchester City Council Filed under: Hope for the Future, Lobbying

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CEM Podcast Ep. 10.1 – Local Area Energy Plans https://climateemergencymanchester.net/2023/01/23/cem-podcast-ep-10-1-local-area-energy-plans/

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CEM Thoughtful Reading - here’s some thought provoking reading for your weekend. Let us know what you think

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Happy January to all our podcast followers. Illness and festivities in December mean we have a small glut of podcasts to release this month. First up, witness the historic spin cycle of Carbon Literacy Training at Manchester City Council in Ep 9.2.
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