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Index

1.  Climate Junction  Goal

2. Climate Junction Context

• The Climate Crisis
• Clean Energy Transformation
• Climate Engagement
• Climate Junction –  Which direction?

3. Climate Junction  Purpose

• Aims
• Informing
• Engaging and Community

4.   Climate Junction Team and Feedback

• The Team
• Site Announcements
• Future Site Development
• Feedback

      5. Climate Junction – the Themes          

1.  Goal

The goal of Climate Junction – Which Direction’? is to help in some way to inform what is happening in climate science and at a practical level to support personal and community level engagement, small or large, for social, economic and political transformation to gain a safer and better world for ourselves, our descendants and for nature. Aspirations which we believe are fundamentally shared by the great majority of people who seek the knowledge, ways and means to protect our planet.

2. Context

Following is the high level context into which Climate Junction – Which Direction? is situated in terms of its  main themes of Crisis, Transformation and Engagement.

The Climate Crisis –

2024 was the warmest year ever recorded with global warming exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels; a key marker of danger which the Paris Agreement sought ten years ago to prevent happening.

From wildfires, flooding fatalities and severe hurricanes rarely out of the news, with wildfires in Europe alone destroying over 1 million hectares in the Summer of 2025, 4 times the 20-year average.

 To recent alarming and widely covered warnings of the near term potential for collapse of the Gulf Stream (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) which gifts the Northwest Atlantic Europe with a mild climate compared to Canada on the same latitude.

Despite all the talk, policies and efforts of recent years, emissions in 2024 rose again by almost 1% reaching 37.8 billion (Giga) tonnes of Carbon Dioxide from burning fossil fuels alone. Whilst record breaking oceans heatwaves and forests fires,  reduces their capacity to act as carbon sinks resulting in more carbon dioxide being held in the atmosphere, heating the planet further in one of the many climate system vicious circles or feedbacks.

The Clean Energy Transformation –

Yet something remarkable is also happening. In the past year, renewable energy accounted for over 90% of all new power installations globally while total solar power capacity has doubled in a period of only three years.

China, with the biggest global emissions by a long stretch has met its 2030 clean energy installations target five years early and its emissions there have appear to have begun to plateau and even fall for the first time ever outside of covid years.

Record investments were made in 2024 into clean energy at $2,100bn US dollars, well over double the amount committed to fossil fuels in the same year. Clean energy now accounts for 40% of total generation; more than double what it was 20 years ago and now increasing at a staggering 11% compound annual growth rate.

Climate Engagement –

Technology and science may present the opportunity for a low-carbon future, but it is for us to decide whether we take it or not. Engagement, public, political, social, and economic,   will decide whether that future is realised in time. The energy transition accelerates when  citizens appreciate, commit and demand and governments respond when the political cost of delay or even denial becomes greater than the cost of action. Engagement is the critical factor that can turn technical possibility into political inevitability.

Positive climate engagement is already having an impact and reshaping the landscape, even if sometimes through disruptive methods, similar indeed to the tactics that Suffragettes or civil rights activists used in the UK and US in the past century.

 Young people looking beyond the next five years are demanding accountability, communities devastated by flooding are making the connections and finding their voices. Each of these acts of engagement closes the gap between possibility and reality.

Negative climate engagement – But engagement has its darker powerful twin, funded by the fossil fuel establishment, propagating disinformation, polarisation and delaying tactics to maintain their position, power and wealth; closely allied to political power bases that they fund and in turn receive favour from.

 The vested interests behind these political movements can undo years of progress as we have seen in recent election cycles.  Even for people in the middle without a particular view or affiliation  it sows seeds of doubt and delay; a corrosive indifference sets in which neutralises the will to act on climate change.

Climate Junction – Which Direction? –

This is the paradox of our age: the crisis has never been more urgent, and yet the solutions have never been more within reach. Which way we tip will depend not on technology, but on will. If governments phase out coal, choke off oil and gas expansion, and double down on the clean surge already underway, we may yet hold the line close to 1.5–2 °C. If they hesitate, delay, or continue to prop up fossil fuels, then the cascading fires, floods, and crop failures of today will look tame compared to what’s coming compounded by rising food prices, water shortages, millions forced to migrate from parched and flooded land.

The stakes could not be clearer – we are standing at a unique and pivotal moment in our history and development down one path accelerates into breakdown, the other into transformation of our energy systems and lifestyles.

This is the context of  Climate Junction – Which Direction?  It is up to us in a very real way to chose which direction and it is the purpose of this website to support that choice and commitment.

3. Purpose:

Aims –

The aim of Climate Junction – Which Direction? is to inform and engage across the three central themes of the website; Climate Crisis, Energy Transformation and Climate Engagement.

Climate Junction – Which Direction? is seeking  to engage with all people whether expert, informed amateur or more casually interested.

Climate Junction – Which Direction? is intended to be action oriented and seeks to make a contribution which helps to raise awareness and understanding, discusses experiences, perspectives,  solutions and presents opportunity for actions towards positive change at all levels.

Our Climate Junction- Which Direction?  basic position accepts that climate change is real, is man-made, has potential to have impacts on an existential level for all living beings on Earth and urgently requires positive commitment and significant action to preserve our common home. We welcome discussion from all parties but do not accept denial of the scientific basis for climate change as most authoritatively outlined in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Synthesis Report,  2024

Informing –

The informing headline aim for Climate Junction – Which Direction? is to provide an information hub for the  three main Themes of the site: Climate; i)  Crisis,  ii) Engagement  and iii) Transformation. 

Each of these Themes are divided into topics and sub-topics. Each sub-topic has a Context page which provides background information on the particular topic and which will be updated every two years approximately.

 More regular Updates are posted to the site on a monthly basis depending on capacity of the team,  (which is wholly voluntary).  Some longer ‘Feature’ Updates go into more  detail and more general ones are focused on one piece of recent news, relevant to the particular topic.

Most recent Updates appear on the Home Page under the relevant Theme column and are then filed in the relevant sub-section of the Updates page linked in the header.  The Context background pages can be accessed directly in the drop-down menu on the Home Page and there are buttons that connect any particular Update to the related Context page. Context Pages also have links to more recent news items from other sources.

A number of Context pages have yet to be written which are indicated in the Context menu.

Engaging and Community –

The second headline aim for Climate Junction – Which Direction? relates to engagement. As well as having a separate Theme related to the topic of Engagement;  the website seeks to facilitate and provide a platform for  opportunity to be involved with climate action and make a positive difference at grass roots level.  

Each Update post has a comments section which follows the basic rules of lively but respectful interaction. But the main source of engagement opportunity is through the Community menu in the site header.  This has a drop down menu to the following Climate Junction-Which Direction? landing areas which it is intended to be the main focus for practical engagement. All, except for Guest Posts, are in the development stage yet.

Guest Posts – this will feature posts received from people in all stages and walks of life and will be their lived experiences of climate change, action and transformation from individual perspectives as well as from their particular expertise or field of work. It could be anything from gardening to walking or the impact in their profession of some aspect of the Climate Junction – Which Direction?  themes and topics.

  Visitors are  invited to request  a  Guest Post by submitting on the Feedback form (link at the bottom of this page) and will be positively reviewed in line with the Aims section above for publication.

Climate Groups – This will perform the main signposting function of the website.  The aim here will be to provide a database of Climate Action Groups with weblinks categorised by Country (and for UK by region) and by focus type, whether core climate, environmental focus or other.  The listings will also classify by type of climate activity; whether community groups focused on more local issues, political party (eg Green Party), lobby group, or   ‘Non Violent Direct Action groups, ( such as Extinction Rebellion).

Climate Group Events –  The aim here will be to provide a calendar type functionality which indicates upcoming events from the Climate Groups listed on that page described above.

Discussion Forum –  A key aim for Climate Junction – Which Direction? is to create a community; to make connections, exchange ideas, discuss and even plan together here. In other words to act as a hub for interaction and engagement.

The planned Discussion Forum is one of the main ways to facilitate this community of interaction and action.  Further work is planned to make the Forum an interesting, meaningful and fulfilling place to connect with people looking to create their own answers to the major strains and challenges that climate change is causing and will continue to increase in all our lives. 

It is also hoped that the Forum may help to respond in some way to the experience of climate anxiety, identified as a significant issue for young people and indeed for people of all ages who seek to grapple with the implications of climate science. Positively engaging with others is an effective way of dealing with the sense of isolation and alienation that so many people worried about the future of our world can feel.

Which Direction? –  This is a little different in that it ‘takes the temperature’ every few months based on the recent Updates posts to make a rough, subjective evaluation whether the climate Crisis is deepening (or receding, likely rarely unfortunately) or Transformation is quickening (or slowing) and indeed on the general topic of Engagement itself.

It will be based on the Tags system on each Update which gives a range of -2, -1, 0, +1, +2; the minus being negative developments and pluses positive news. An overview of the articles and results will give a very, very rough temperature check as much a launch for discussion as anything else.  The Comments section on those ‘temperature check’ articles invites  comments more generally on the state of the Climate and mitigation action.