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Below we list the latest news from our website related to international affairs and issues such as sustainable development.

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You might also like the Coventry Climate Action Network website which we also maintain. Please check it out at https://covcan.uk/

Philip Brown

Secretary, UNA Coventry Branch
philip@unacov.uk

Recent News Highlights

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EcoForum Website Available Now

EcoForums are meetings where specific groups committed to building a sustainable, clean future can meet to share their achievements, exchange ideas, plan new joint projects such as how to engage their communities and the public in their work. United Nations Association Coventry Branch have created a website ecoforum.uk where groups can create their own forum to discuss issues of importance …

Winners Announced for Coventry International Young People’s Peace Essay Competition 2021

After a record-breaking number of entries to Coventry International Young People’s Peace Essay Competition from 29 different countries, the 2021 winners were announced in November. The winning essays can be found at youngpeoplespeaceessay.org/2021-peace-essays. United Nations Association Coventry Branch are hoping for even greater number of entries next year. We thank the judges from Coventry University and the University of Warwick. …

Education Secretary puts climate change at the heart of education

At last: Something to Celebrate! Following the call from four education unions for the the Secretary of State for Education to take action to ensure climate change education becomes fully embedded in the education system, including a comprehensive review of the entire curriculum, which CovCAN reported here, the UK government has today announced that Nadhim Zahawi, the Education Secretary, says …

Watch Ice on Fire

Ice on Fire is a 2019 documentary which explores the potential extinction level event caused by arctic methane release, and the newly developed technologies that could reverse global warming by sequestering carbon out of the atmosphere. The film premiered to a standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJFx_geNL5s

Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ)

The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) was launched in April 2021 by Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and UK Prime Minister Johnson’s Finance Adviser for COP26, and the COP26 Private Finance Hub in partnership with the UNFCCC Climate Action Champions, the Race to Zero campaign and the COP26 Presidency. Bringing together existing and …

Militarism Fuels Climate Crisis

This article was first published on our sister-website, CovCAN.uk The UK government spent around £44.6 billion on defence in 2020-21 and this will increase by about 10% and 15% in the coming years . In the 2021 budget the government pledged £15 billion for 2021-22 as part of the Net Zero Strategy, In November 2021, the UK branch of the …

Peace & Climate Pledge Posters

Climate Change is probably the biggest threat not just to our children’s futures but also to World Peace. Each one of us can do our bit to reduce the risk by taking action to reduce our carbon footprints. Coventry Climate Action Network (CovCAN) have produced posters where people can pledge to take action. Pledge Now: what action you will take? …

Forthcoming Events

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Reflections on COP26 by Chris Philpott

Green activist and environmental educator Chris Philpott will address a Zoom conference organised by Warwick District UN Association on the theme Reflection on COP26 – What happened, what does this mean and what happens next? Chris Philpott has been a green activist for 40 years and a member of Warwick District UNA for over 30 years. He has always tried …

Climate and SDG Forum December 2021

Coventry Climate Action Network, the Sustainable Development Forum and anyone else interested in these issues are invited to attend telemeetings at 7pm on the first Tuesday of every month in 2021 to share experience and plan activities by visiting the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82205125165?pwd=Wng1YldmV2VpL0l2dXBIcElxbDk4UT09 Meeting ID: 822 0512 5165 Passcode: 492479

University of Warwick Resonate Festival

University of Warwick will be putting on a year-long programme of events from May 2021 to April 2022 as part of City of Culture Programme. The theme in June 2021 will be 'Sanctuary' What does it mean to provide sanctuary? How does it feel to need sanctuary? We highlight the importance of sanctuary as a concept, tell its histories, and …

Green Week 2022

Information about next year’s Coventry & Leamington Spa Green Week will be shared on http://greenweek.coventry.domains/

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