• Purchasing Peat: the hidden ingredient inside our shopping baskets

    Have you ever considered that the products you buy at the supermarket or garden centre could be causing damage to nature and climate? In most cases, you would never know, as this information is often hidden or hard to find, and this is precisely why we are asking retailers to make that change and offer…

  • Lancashire Climate Action Network (LancsCAN)… goes live!

    Today, the website for the newly created Lancashire Climate Action Network (LancsCAN) goes officially live. LancsCAN was formed in June 2023 following the first Lancashire Community Climate Action Forum event held on 17 May 2023 at Edge Hill University, with SustainNET as the lead organiser. The Network’s membership currently comprises around 100 people from about 60 community-oriented organisations from…

  • COP27 – Something’s got to change

    It’s that time of the year again for the annual COP (Conference of the Parties) climate summit. This time we are in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for COP27. Last year the UK hosted COP26 in Glasgow. The COP process is the political decision-making arm of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Intergovernmental…