Coventry – Climate Change City
coventrysociety Coventry was one of the first cities in the UK to produce a Climate Change Strategy. Back in 2012 the Council set a target to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in…
Climate Change
Coventry Local Air Quality Action Plan
The Government has backed down on its plan to impose a Clean Air Zone on the central parts of the city. They have accepted the Council’s preferred plan to reduce…
40% of Global Warming?
According to the United Nations Environment Program, buildings and their construction together account for 36 percent of global energy use and 39 percent of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions annually. The…
Coventry Avoids Clean Air Zone
In our report in August 2019 we examined the pressure that the Council was under to establish a Clean Air Zone around the city centre. Following a long delay caused…
Sorting the Waste!
Currently the blue-lidded bin recycling is sent to sorting facilities in Leeds & Nottingham which is very costly. Coventry City Council has proposed the idea of building a recycling facility…
Is a Clean Air Zone coming to Coventry?
There has been a lot in the local newspapers and their online websites about the plans to create a clean air charging zone in Coventry, although one newspaper has mistakenly…
Micro:Cab – Beyond the Electric Car
A Coventry firm, Microcab, is pioneering a new approach to zero emission vehicle engineering using hydrogen fuel cell technology. Microcab is a spin-out from the SWARM project at Coventry University.…