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Storm rages at Town Hall over unspent £4m climate funding
Jamaica has been declared a disaster zone, after Hurricane Melissa ripped through the Caribbean island overnight. But according to Mayor Jason Perry’s most senior colleague at Croydon Town Hall, the climate emergency “is not a priority”. Today, the supercharged Hurricane … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Climate Crisis Commission, Croydon Community Energy, Croydon Council, Croydon Friends of the Earth, Environment, Jason Cummings
Tagged Climate Crisis, Climate emergency, Cllr Jason Cummings, Connie Duxbury, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Community Energy, Croydon Council, Cuba, Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica, Jason Cummings, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Tory
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Climate crisis? It’s not a priority for Croydon, says Cummings
Last week, the cabinet member for finance, Conservative councillor Jason Cummings, pictured left, stood up in the Town Hall Chamber and explained that the council had failed to spend £3.9m of carbon offset grants in nine years because… well… they … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Crisis Commission, Croydon Community Energy, Croydon Council, Croydon Friends of the Earth, Environment, Jason Cummings
Tagged Climate Crisis, Climate emergency, Connie Duxbury, Conservative, Councillor Jason Cummings, Croydon, Croydon Climate Action, Croydon Community Energy, Croydon Council, Jason Cummings, London Borough of Croydon, Tory
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Time to act is now. But our council is ignoring climate change
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The glaciers are melting faster than the glacial pace of progress at our council. TRACEY HAGUE takes Town Hall bosses to task, six years after they declared a climate emergency Croydon Council declared a climate emergency in 2019. … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, Activities, Climate Crisis Commission, Community associations, Croydon Community Energy, Croydon Council, Croydon Green Network, Croydon Greens, Environment, Scott Roche, Tracey Hague
Tagged Climate emergency, Cllr Scott Roche, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Community Energy, Croydon Council, Croydon Green Network, Green Party, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Net zero, The Green Party, Tory, Tracey Hague
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Apply now to claim free trees in latest Woodland Trust scheme
The Woodland Trust is giving away hundreds of thousands of trees to schools, community groups, sports clubs and similar organisations to try to help everybody have the chance to plant a sapling and play their part in reducing the impact … Continue reading
Fire fighters air worries after IPCC’s ‘atlas of human suffering’
The country’s firefighters, the public service which is primarily tasked with responding to natural emergencies such as flooding or wildfires in heatwaves, says it is ill-prepared to cope with the kind of events which UN-backed scientists predict will occur over … Continue reading
After another year of hot air, XR Sutton give council a shoe-ing
Remember when the leaders of councils in south London declared that there was a climate and ecological emergency in their boroughs, when they were taking the political heat from more than just global warming? And what have the councils across … Continue reading
It’s time to vote for someone who ‘gets’ the climate emergency
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Worried about flooding locally, and climate change globally? PETER UNDERWOOD, pictured right, a Green Party candidate, says that these issues should be a central in the London Assembly elections Families and businesses are yet again being left to … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 London elections, Caroline Russell, Croydon Greens, Environment, Extinction Rebellion, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Peter Underwood, Sadiq Khan, Sian Berry, Waste incinerator
Tagged Climate emergency, Croydon, Croydon and Sutton (London Assembly constituency), Croydon Council, Extinction Rebellion, Labour, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Peter Underwood, Sadiq Khan, Sian Berry, Tony Newman
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