Courting rapid change – the rise of holding polluters to account
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
The number of climate litigation cases around the world has more than doubled since 2015 – the year the Paris Agreement was signed.
On track to full electrification: Low carbon railways in India
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
India’s commitment to full railway electrification by 2023 shows that rapid rail decarbonisation is possible when strong political will and large-scale public investment are part of the equation.
The jump to pumps: how Finland found an answer to heating homes
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
In chilly Scandinavia, Finland has shown the extraordinary potential of one of the less visible renewable energy technologies – heat pumps.
Share Catch Chile’s waste reduction bus – how behaviour change, new infrastructure and different business models are cutting waste
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
This is the story of the potential for a rapid transformation of the waste crisis illustrated by one social enterprise in Chile, and its work to encourage people in communities and in industry to produce less waste and to recycle more.
The Sunrise Movement: how a US grassroots youth movement helped set the national climate agenda for rapid change
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
The new popularity of the term Green New Deal can be credited to this group of young climate activists known as the Sunrise Movement.
Reclaiming power
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
The rapid rise of community renewable energy and why the added benefits of local, clean power can help accelerate transition
A fast plant for rapid shifts in construction – how the ancient supercrop Hemp can help build low carbon homes
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
There is now a huge opportunity to scale up this kind of building, while also bringing a decent living to farmers from a crop that is environmentally sustainable to grow.
Badvertising – is changing the advertising industry the next step in speeding transition?
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
There are new calls to apply the lessons learned from the successful campaign to end tobacco advertising to ‘high carbon’ products and lifestyles, and to ‘stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency‘.