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Author: Calum McFarlane

Got your summer break booked yeah?

5 May, 2023 Calum McFarlane Leave a comment

With apologies to Modern Toss. Encouraging people to engage in the single most carbon intensive activity most of us can…

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Posted in: Badverts

Send us your #badvertsMCR

28 April, 2023 Calum McFarlane Leave a comment

How many of these vehicles actually ever get driven “offroad”? This is a common theme in high-carbon advertising, associating the…

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Posted in: Badverts

Climate Emergency Manchester launches #BadvertsMCR campaign against high carbon advertising

14 March, 2023 Calum McFarlane 1 Comment

Advertising. Probably not something you give much thought to, day in, day out. And yet in modern Britain it’s all…

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Posted in: Badverts

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 2 Comments

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 1 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 1 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

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