With the new Welsh Government in place, now is the time to remind our elected representatives that action on climate change must not be neglected, especially as our proposals for action could create up to 20 000 jobs a year in Wales, targeted in the areas that need them most. We've altered our Candidate View-Finder at
Stop Climate Chaos Cymru have commissioned research from economist Dr Calvin Jones of Cardiff Business School to develop proposals for practical action the Welsh Assembly can take to combat climate change in Wales. Here he discusses how we will be affected in Wales. To find out your Assembly candidates' thoughts on climate change and what they think of our
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
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
The Stop Climate Chaos Cymru report launched at the Labour conference on Saturday can now be seen below in summary form. Dr Calvin Jones of the Economic Research Unit in the Cardiff Business School has researched three areas of investment for the Welsh Assembly Government that will see returns in tonnes of carbon saved and numbers of