Achieving climate justice in a globally responsible Wales We need to see ambitious action towards achieving climate justice here in Wales and across the world. The climate crisis is a justice crisis; with gendered, racial and geographic dimensions which affect millions of global communities. On 16 May, Stop Climate Chaos Cymru hosted an event at
On 26th April 2023 Merthyr County Borough Council voted unanimously to refuse an application to continue mining at Ffos Y Fran open cast coal mine until March 2024. Rally against Ffos y Fran coal mine on 26 April 2023 (photo courtesy of Kirsty Luff) Ffos y Fran, near Merthyr, is the UK
Climate Sunday and Climate.Cymru A number of member organisations of Climate.Cymru are inspired by faith – as the blog by Anna Fraine from CAFOD in April expressed so powerfully. An amazingly broad coalition of Christian churches and organisations from across Britain and Ireland has come together to pool our resources in the run-up to the
Anna Fraine, a CAFOD Campaigners Officer and Trustee for Million Minutes, explains how her faith motivates her climate campaigning: This Lent, I am challenging myself to be silent as a faithful act of campaigning. My time staying silent – with hundreds of others - hopes to create a deafening ‘noise’ as an act of solidarity with young
For many years, WI members have put climate change firmly on the agenda by taking part in The Climate Coalition’s Show the Love campaign which was launched in 2015. Show the Love takes place annually around Valentine’s Day and encourages people to show the love for all the places and things they appreciate, and
A coalition of Welsh charities launched a campaign for Wales to eliminate imported deforestation from its economy to tackle climate change, nature loss and build resilience against pandemics. Ahead of the 2021 Senedd elections, the campaign by Size of Wales, RSPB Cymru and WWF Cymru calls on parties to commit to policies that would make Wales the world’s
As the Welsh Government calls for views on the Welsh recovery, we call for a recovery that is both green and just. We join the many NGO's, companies and members of the public around the world who are calling for a green and just economic recovery that puts the needs of people and
Coalitions of civil society organisations from across the UK have welcomed the announcement of a new date for COP26, the UN climate talks that were due to happen in November 2020. COP26 will now take place from 1st - 12th November 2021 in Glasgow. Clara Goldsmith, Campaigns Director of The Climate Coalition said: “Postponing
A decade to turn things around This is the warning we are giving to Assembly Members to ensure they take urgent and direct action on climate change. The world is already hitting record-breaking temperatures and the poorest communities are being affected the most. The devastating decline in biodiversity is set to wipe out a
Currently we are nowhere near to meeting our climate emissions targets, or our tree cover targets. It is now our ‘global responsibility’ to urgently address this declared climate emergency and the deepening nature crisis. “We have recently declared a climate emergency in Wales but are failing to take the action at the scale or pace
