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Welcome
I have been concerned about the impact of climate change for many years. While working as a an emergency management advisor, I decided to write a book called, Creating a Better Climate Future. The aim of the book and this website is to provide information and resources to empower and encourage people all over the world to take action on climate change. So that one day soon, there will be an overwhelming momentum for positive change.
I give examples of where I have taken action myself, had setbacks and successes. New content will be added to this site regularly.
Best wishes,
Philip Kent-Hughes
Planning Your Emissions Reductions Journey
Reducing Emissions from Consumption and Production
Planning Your Emissions Reductions Journey
There are many ways we can reduce our emissions and some simple planning can make it easier. This includes getting your household or other people together to create an emissions reduction objective. There is a free workbook that contains guides and planning tools to help you achieve success.
Reducing Food Emissions
Reducing Emissions from Consumption and Production
Planning Your Emissions Reductions Journey
This includes reducing your carbon footprint by reviewing food lifestyle options and ways to reduce food waste. We can start positive conversations about food, spread the word, and look at community groups. There are also actions to influence government, food manufacturers and retailers.
Reducing Emissions from Consumption and Production
Reducing Emissions from Consumption and Production
Reducing Emissions from Consumption and Production
This describes what a circular economy is and what the benefits are for everyone. We can find out more about reducing consumption, refusing unnecessary packaging, reusing, repairing and recycling. There are also options to communicate with brands and service providers.
Reducing Energy Emissions
Reducing Emissions from Transportation
Reducing Emissions from Consumption and Production
What are the different options and how to go about switching to renewable energy. There are options for reducing your emissions and your energy bill at the same time. There will be options for encouraging energy providers, stopping new coal and other actions as well.
Reducing Emissions from Transportation
Reducing Emissions from Transportation
Reducing Emissions from Transportation
There are many ways to reduce emissions from personal transport and changing the way we travel. We will be communicating to manufacturers, and operators of land, sea, and air travel.
Find your community
Reducing Emissions from Transportation
Reducing Emissions from Transportation
There are a range of local and international groups who have lots of opportunities for you to get involved. There are groups who take action through protest, habitat restoration such and reafforestation, coastal and river clean-up initiatives, community gardening, and many more.
Climate Action Calendar
How the calendar works
At different times of the year you can participate in actions which can help you reduce emissions or create positive change. As each month starts, more events will be added.
International annual event are occasions to put a spotlight on issues of concern, spread awareness, as well as mobilizing political change and resources to fix global problems. You can join in at any time and subscribe for monthly updates.
2024 OCTOBER
October 13th - International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction
The theme for this year highlights will be on the role of education in protecting and empowering youth for a disaster-free future. Increasing disasters, many of them driven and exacerbated by climate change, threaten the well-being of children and youth. According to UNICEF, approximately one billion children worldwide are at extremely high risk due to climate impacts, including climate-related disasters.
Find out more at iddrr.undrr.org/toolkit
2024 November
November 11th to 22nd - UN Climate Change Conference COP29
The Conference of the Parties (COP), is an annual meeting where governments assess global efforts to limit global warming to 1.5°C, informed by the latest science. This year world leaders will meet in Baku, Azerbaijan to present their updated national climate action plans under the Paris agreement. If these include strong action they could limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
Find out more about the conference https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/cop29
November 26th - World Sustainable Transport Day
This year marks the first World Sustainable Transport Day. One aim is to promote safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all. The transport sector is responsible for approximately one quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions.
Whether it’s for work or for pleasure, the choices we make on how we get from one place to another — driving, flying, ferrying, biking, scooting, and public transportation — can have a large impact on carbon emissions. Making informed lifestyle choices when it comes to transport can help us reduce carbon emissions and improve air quality — a win-win!
Find out what you can do to reduce transport emissions https://www.un.org/en/actnow/transport
November 29th - Buy Nothing Day
Buy Nothing Day is a global event held on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, as a protest against consumerism. Started in 1992 by artist Ted Dave and promoted by Adbusters, it encourages people to abstain from shopping for 24 hours to reflect on their consumption habits and promote sustainability. The movement aims to raise awareness of the environmental and social impacts of overconsumption.
The Buy Nothing Project, which grew out of the same values, takes this idea further by encouraging communities to give, share, and exchange goods and services without money year-round. It emphasizes building local networks of generosity, reducing waste, and fostering connections.
To get involved, people can participate in Buy Nothing Day by pledging not to shop and joining events like clothing swaps or repair workshops. For the Buy Nothing Project, joining or starting a local group on social media platforms allows individuals to share items and services within their community, promoting a culture of sharing.
Find out what you can do by visiting the Buy Nothing Project at https://buynothingproject.org/
Creating a Better Climate Future - the book
Overview
Are you ready to take meaningful action on climate change? This book explains how you can join millions of people already making a positive impact. Based on emergency management, there are practical steps to solve climate change that you can apply in your daily life.
IN THIS BOOK YOU WILL:
• Learn how to promote system change by influencing corporations to reduce their emissions now.
• Discover enjoyable ways to communicate and connect with others, while creating community and increasing momentum for change.
• Receive a FREE Climate Action Guide to help you take action and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (download).
• Learn how to achieve sustainable living.
• Find out how to replace feelings of despair with a sense of personal empowerment which restores your confidence in our shared future.
Imagine a future where you don't just witness the climate crisis—but participate in shaping a sustainable future. When we join the rising tide of people acting on the climate crisis, we will generate an unstoppable momentum that will change the direction of corporations, and even economies.
Review: Booklife by Publishers Weekly
"In the face of ever-increasing temperature and a prevailing sense of resigned helplessness, emergency advisor Kent-Hughes offers something healthier than doom scrolling: a helpful guide on ways that individuals can make a difference in fighting one of the hottest topics in global politics, climate change.
Clear, compact, and practical, Creating A Better Climate Future has been crafted as an encouraging eight-step “emergency plan,” complete with action steps, for making change, becoming “a client hero,” building momentum, and inspiring others. Arguing that “we still have time to turn things around,” Kent-Hughes makes the case that the real problem isn’t carbon emissions—it’s the “obstacles to positive change.”
His guide showcases what everyday people can do to “use the economic system to change itself,” first with some easy wins and then bigger goals that can build upon that foundation. Readers eager to feel that individual efforts contribute to a broader movement will find much that resonates.
Takeaway: Inspiration and action steps for individuals eager to push back against climate change."