On a warm sunday in April, Stop Climate Chaos Cymru spoke to people at the Riverside market in Cardiff about their latest campaign asking Assembly Candidates to act on climate change. Several people had a go at entering their postcode into our Candidate View-Finder to see which of their candidates had responded and took home summaries of our
Welsh Twitter users are putting climate at the centre of the debate on the Welsh Assembly elections. Our analysis found that ‘Climate’ is ahead of other key words such as ‘Campaign’, ‘Party’ and ‘Cardiff’. This puts it in the top twenty most used words on twitter using the official elections hashtag - #senedd2011. Many users are tweeting
Stop Climate Chaos Cymru will be at the Riverside Farmer’s market in Cardiff on Sunday to talk about their latest campaign on climate change ahead of the Assembly elections in May. A coalition of 14 influential Welsh organisations drawn from environment and development groups, faith groups, women’s groups, trade unions and others, SCCCymru is
On Friday, voters in Cardiff North will be able to challenge the politicians vying to be their AM on what they would do to tackle climate change. From 7.30pm in Llanishen Leisure Centre, Ben Foday of Plaid Cymru, Julie Morgan for Labour, Lynne Hudson of the Conservatives and Matt Smith of the Liberal Democrats will be facing questions from their
Stop Climate Chaos Cymru has launched a new online tool for lobbying Welsh Assembly Candidates for action on climate change in Wales. Developed by Cardiff-based digital communications company NativeHQ in partnership with Paperfold Media, this will allow anyone visiting SCCCymru’s website to enter their post-code and find all their regional and constituency candidates’ views on
Tonight at 8.30pm over 50 major landmarks in Wales will be plunged into darkness as part of Earthhour - WWF's initiative on climate change. For an hour, places including the Senedd, Kidwelly Castle, the National Library of Wales, St David's Hall & Newport Clock Tower will be extinguishing the lights to display their support for action
In the run up to our campaign during the Assembly elections we have set up a twitter profile to engage with political candidates and the Welsh media to ensure that climate change is on the election agenda. This is crucial to ensure that proposals to act on climate change make it into a programme of government post-election.
Over the past two years, many businesses in Wales have reduced the number of flights they take according to research by the WWF Cymru, and there is no intention to reverse this even if finances improve. Businesses have found benefits such as staff spending less time away from the office and being better able to work through travel disruption,
With the Welsh Assembly elections coming up in May, Stop Climate Chaos Cymru is running a fringe event at this weekend's Welsh Liberal Democrats' party conference in Cardiff. On Saturday at 3pm we will be presenting research carried out by Cardiff Business School, showing affordable Welsh policy solutions to climate change which promote social justice and boost employment. The
This week the RSPB, alongside other conservation groups called on the government to introduce a levy on peat products in order to protect peat bogs, which hold almost 4 times more carbon than forests. Despite a ten-year government programme to phase out peat from garden compost, the RSPB says UK consumers are still choosing peat-based