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Squaring urgency and equity in the just transition debate

Is it possible to accelerate transitions in inclusive ways? Can rapidity be squared with attending to questions of equity and social justice? The question...

By Peter Newell on 25 October 2018
Secure rights

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Smog Day fell as pollution rose & one of Europe’s worst air quality countries holds climate talks

The possibility of rapid transition comes from accepting how much we are a part of nature and its cycles argue Nick Robins and Andrew Simms, and marking...

By Nick Robins and Andrew Simms on 6 December 2018

Commentary

New economic stories are needed to unblock the political embrace of rapid transition

The breakdown of the climate will only be averted by rapid and radical action, but political courage and imagination are blunted blocked by narrow...

By Katherine Trebeck and Jeremy Williams on 28 January 2019

Commentary

‘We march now so we won’t have to swim later’

Many have wondered when the scale of public protest will match the scale of the climate crisis. That question increasingly is being answered by the sudden...

By Andrew Simms on 15 February 2019

Commentary

A civic plan for a climate emergency; building the 1.5 degree, socially-just city

Leeds City Council became the latest local government body to pass a resolution declaring a climate emergency on Wednesday, 27th March. It becomes part of a...

By Paul Chatterton on 28 March 2019
Liveable cities

Commentary

Can design catalyse transition? Thinkers and practitioners from a range of disciplines explore possibilities of rapid transition

In the first of an occasional series on what members of the Alliance are doing in the field of rapid transition, we hear from Ruth Potts of Schumacher...

By Ruth Potts on 28 March 2019

Commentary

Given Half a Chance: Ten Ways to Save the World

Environmentalist Edward Davey’s new book, Given Half a Chance: Ten Ways to Save the World shows how little it would take to set a rapid transition in...

By Edward Davey on 12 April 2019
Clean energy, Liveable cities, Safe water, Enough money, Secure rights

Commentary

How Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly helped climate action

Holding a Citizens’ Assembly on climate action is one of just three demands by the headline-grabbing activists of Extinction Rebellion, whose...

By Frances Foley on 26 April 2019

Commentary

Museum of Rapid Transition: museums in a world facing existential crisis

History teaches us nothing,’ wrote the Russian medievalist Vasily Klyuchesvsky, ‘but only punishes [us] for not learning its lessons’. Somewhere in...

By Andrew Simms on 30 April 2019
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