Tag - climate emergency

Thermometer showing 40C during a hot weather heatwave

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London-wide exercise explores capital’s resilience to extreme heat

27 June 2024

Alex Wilson, Reform UK member of the London Assembly. (credit Noah Vickers/Local Democracy Reporting Service)

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First-ever Reform UK politician at City Hall says climate change ‘not an emergency’

21 May 2024

Benji Bailes pictured during the Greenpeace protest on the River Thames in April (credit Fionn Guilfoyle/Greenpeace)

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Why I blocked a Russian oil tanker

24 December 2022

Love Your Planet award winners being presented with prizes at the Culture Palace last week

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Children presented awards for protecting the planet

30 November 2022

Enfield Council is electrifying its vehicle fleet

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Enfield named on global ‘A list’ of local areas tackling climate change

28 November 2022

Gas meter (credit Arthur Lambillotte via Unsplash)

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‘Energy shock’ to cost Enfield residents £110m a year, research finds

4 November 2022

Forty homes were destroyed by fire as the UK's heat record was smashed on 19th July, with London among the places surpassing 40C for the first time (credit Sky News)

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This summer’s heatwave is a wake-up call

3 August 2022

The fires at Wennington in East London and (inset) Sadiq Khan (credit Sky News)

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Khan pays tribute to firefighters after busiest day in decades

22 July 2022

The current Met Office 'red alert' for extreme heat covers all of London

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Red warning for ‘extreme heat’ as Enfield swelters

18 July 2022

The protest outside Enfield Power Station on Saturday

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Protest against company’s climate-busting court action

27 May 2022

Flash flooding (credit Chris Gallagher via Unsplash)

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Building community resilience

15 February 2022

Enfield Council cabinet members celebrate declaring a 'climate emergency'

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Enfield ranked behind most London councils on climate

31 January 2022

Protesters blockade the Edmonton incinerator on Monday 13th December (credit Extinction Rebellion)

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Edmonton incinerator blockaded by protesters

13 December 2021

A 'Fridays for Future' protest in Germany calling for global temperatures to be kept below a rise of 1.5C (credit Mika Baumeister via Unsplash)

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Why COP26 matters and what we can do about it

30 October 2021

Incinerator protestors march along the North Circular with a sign saying "stop burning recyclables" (credit Extinction Rebellion)

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Hundreds march against Edmonton incinerator

27 September 2021

Opponents of a new incinerator in Edmonton staged a protest outside Enfield Civic Centre

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Council defends new incinerator after protesters stage ‘die in’

21 September 2021

Enfield Council cabinet members celebrate declaring a 'climate emergency'

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Fresh call for council to quit fossil fuel investments

26 August 2021

How the new Edmonton incinerator will look

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Last-ditch bid to stop new incinerator

26 August 2021

Activists from Enfield Extinction Rebellion stage a protest outside Enfield Civic Centre

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Go green for Glasgow

25 July 2021

The plans for the new incinerator and (inset) NLWA chair Clyde Loakes

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Calls for head of waste authority to resign over incinerator

25 June 2021

Enfield Council cabinet members celebrate declaring a 'climate emergency'

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Council ‘hypocrisy’ claim over fossil fuel investments

26 February 2021

People share their ideas at the inaugural meeting of Enfield Climate Action Forum in January

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New climate group inspires action

14 March 2020

'Rebels' from Extinction Rebellion outside Enfield Civic Centre in January, when they disrupted a council meeting

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Why we staged council chamber protest

8 March 2020

Louis Velati on a climate change demo in London

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Be the change you wish to see

8 September 2019