The Time is Now: join us to demand climate action
CAT is supporting ‘The Time is Now’ – a mass lobby around Parliament on 26th June to call for urgent action on climate change. Read on to find out more…
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Category: Press Releases
How many wind turbines do we need to get to zero carbon?
How many wind turbines do we need to get to zero carbon? CAT’s Zero Carbon Britain research has been quoted recently as finding that we’d need wind turbines ‘covering an…
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Net zero – let’s up the ambition!
Today’s Committee on Climate Change report is a clear call for strong government action – but it doesn’t go far enough. The urgency of the climate crisis requires radical solutions,…
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Can we reach zero carbon by 2025?
Through researching and communicating a detailed model of a Zero Carbon Britain, CAT aims to stimulate debate around rapid decarbonisation, engage the research community and get society thinking in new…
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CAT CEO to Step Down
Adrian Ramsay, Chief Executive of the Centre for Alternative Technology, has informed the Charity’s Board of Trustees that he will be stepping down from his role in late January 2019.…
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‘Woefully little’ in budget to address climate crisis
Responding to today’s budget announcement, CAT CEO Adrian Ramsay said: “The government is fiddling while the planet burns. Released just weeks after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a…
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Target zero – a message from CAT to the UK government
If the UK Government wants to create a truly ‘Green GB’, they should start by committing to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. Following last week’s release of the IPCC…
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CAT calls for cross-party consensus on climate action plan
As major UK political parties sign up to the net-zero target demanded by the latest climate science, CAT calls for a cross-party consensus around a delivery plan by 2040, to…
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Net zero needed – stark warning from IPCC demands urgent action
‘Rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society’ are required if humanity is to stay within the threshold of 1.5 degrees of global temperature rise and prevent really…
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A low carbon pathway for Wales – Centre for Alternative Technology reaction
Responding to the Welsh Government’s consultation on low carbon pathways for Wales, the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) welcomes the commitment to action on climate change, but calls for more…
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