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Countryside Climate Network
16.11.2020

Countryside Climate Network

The Guardian has reported on warnings that cuts and a lack of support from central government have hampered local authority attempts to tackle climate change Three-quarters of local authorities across the UK have issued climate emergency declarations over the...

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Putting the Rural Voice into Climate Action
21.09.2020

Putting the Rural Voice into Climate Action

Article written by David Cope, Countryside Climate Network Coordinator David Cope, UK100’s Countryside Climate Network Coordinator, spoke at the  Rural Service Network ’s annual conference  Revitalising Rural  on Thursday. In this adaption of David’s talk, he spells out why...

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Northumberland - Whitton and Tosson Tree Planting Project
07.09.2020

Northumberland - Whitton and Tosson Tree Planting Project

This is an article about how one little Parish Council is doing its very best to help combat the threat of climate change Climate change and forestry: the time for action is now There is now a...

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Call for south west countryside industry to help shape rural recovery plan
27.07.2020

Call for south west countryside industry to help shape rural recovery plan

Somerset County Gazette reports that rural stakeholders are joining forces to create a rural recovery plan for the south west, and are calling on rural groups to take part and help shape the region’s future Working with partners including...

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Rural areas demand support to tackle climate change
06.07.2020

Rural areas demand support to tackle climate change

The Ripley and Heanor News writes that authorities in Derbyshire have called upon the Government to take notice of the expertise that rural communities can offer in combating climate change Rural councils have joined forces to set up the...

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Rural areas demand support to tackle climate change
29.06.2020

Rural areas demand support to tackle climate change

A group of rural council leaders has launched a new network to promote the voice of the countryside in the climate change debate. In a letter published on the 24th June by the new Countryside Climate Network, a cross-party...

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CPRE Events on the Climate Emergency and Pandemic
22.06.2020

CPRE Events on the Climate Emergency and Pandemic

The CPRE have announced two events which will focus on their manifesto post coronavirus as well as possible countryside solutions to the climate change emergency. Details of these events are below: Launch of CPRE, the countryside charity’s Post-coronavirus...

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Calls for more support to rural communities
16.12.2019

Calls for more support to rural communities

The rural economy needs more support from the next Government to ensure it does not miss key targets such as climate change, the managing director of Madeleys Chartered Surveyors has said The Shropshire Star covers the comments, which outline...

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Rural Services Network partners to encourage use of biofuel
09.12.2019

Rural Services Network partners to encourage use of biofuel

The website Bioenergy Insight reports on comments made by Rural Services Network (RSN) chief executive Graham Biggs on the potential of using biomass as fuel in the UK RSN has announced that it will work in partnership with the...

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Councils need power and funding to tackle climate change
30.09.2019

Councils need power and funding to tackle climate change

The Local Government Association (LGA) has called for councils to be handed further power and funding in order to meet national climate change targets, according to the website, Public Sector Executive. 230 councils across England and Wales have declared...

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