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Revealed: The £264 billion Price Tag of the UK’s Carbon Capture Strategy
Critics argue the technology is a “dangerous distraction” to the real measures required to tackle catastrophic man-made climate change
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A Toxic ‘Sewage Sludge’ is Covering Britain’s Crops in Microplastics – Then Flowing Into Our Rivers
Campaigners including Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Caroline Lucas warn that decades-old testing rules need to be urgently updated
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‘BP’s Cynical Greenwashing Sponsorship Tactics Over British Cultural Institutions Has Now Been Exposed’
These internal memos reveal how fossil fuel companies use cultural sponsorship as a means of cultural and political control, argues Juliette Daigre
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Whistleblower Alleges Systemic Failures in UK-Approved US Biofuel Sustainability Certification
Ex-auditor claims compliance has been ‘eroded into a rubber-stamping process’
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Keir Starmer Will Trigger Voter Backlash if He Breaks Warm Homes Pledge, Polling Suggests
Over half of Labour voters say that mooted plans to cut funding for home insulation would hit their trust in the party
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‘UK Energy Is on Trial – But You Probably Didn’t Even Know’
Brits urged to listen to the plight of indigenous people, whose environments have been destroyed by fossil fuel companies, as ‘one day it will be you’
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‘The Case for Climate Popularism in the Green Party’
The future of UK politics is a fight between the Greens and Reform and its clear which Green candidates are the best placed to lead that battle, argues Rupert Read
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‘MPs Need to Listen to the Scientists, Not the Oligarchs’ — Scientists Sound the Climate Alarm at Westminster
Chris Packham was joined by more than 150 scientists in a demonstration urging Westminster to start listening to the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change
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Corporations Could Sue the Government Under India Deal, Campaigners Warn
Campaigners warn that it risks creating a system of “corporate courts”
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‘Why Tony Blair’s Intervention on Net Zero Is the Most Irrational Contribution to Climate Discourse in Some Time’
There can be no “third way” to tackling the existential threat of man made climate change, argues Russell Warfield
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BP Hit by Protests and Investor Rebellion Over Israel Fuel Sales and Broken Climate Pledges
The multinational oil and gas company is accused of complicity in Israel’s war on the Palestinian people
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The Big Money Firms Bankrolling a Global Retreat From Climate Targets
A small group of “super investors” is quietly fuelling the oil industry’s abandonment of environmental goals
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‘I’m Breaking The Silence’: The Woman Who Says She Is Exposing Greenwashing in Global Advertising
Polina Zabrodskaya has taken her former employer, AMV BBDO, to an employment tribunal alleging constructive dismissal
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Prospective Thames Water Private Equity Buyer ‘Sent Bills Soaring’ in UK and US
Campaigners say the preferred buyer of the failing UK water firm has a record of “rampant profiteering and financial abuse of service users” on both sides of the Atlantic
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UK Government’s Pro-Airport Expansion ‘Jet Zero’ Strategy Challenged in High Court
Climate groups say ministers are abandoning climate commitments at the behest of the aviation industry
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Polluting Water and Fossil Fuel Bosses Are Being Put Under Citizen’s Arrest for Causing a ‘Public Nuisance’
Activists accuse rogue water bosses of “knowingly putting the public at risk”
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Just Stop Oil Has Called It Quits, but They Say Their Fight Is Far From Over
The climate movement has announced an end to its direct action campaigns. The group’s spokesperson tells Josiah Mortimer what’s next
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Carmageddon: New Alliance Launched to Tackle ‘SUV Takeover’ in Britain
“They feel safer to drive, but are much less safe for any pedestrians and cyclists they collide with” said Green peer Jenny Jones
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The Government’s Housing Bill Branded a ‘Licence To Kill’ Protected Species for Property Developers
Environmental groups and conservationists slam the Government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill
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‘All the Ways Kemi Badenoch Is Completely Wrong About Net-Zero’
‘Pointing out the distortions, inaccuracies and outright lies is so easy that it’s almost a bore,’ argues Russell Warfield
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Kemi Badenoch Ditches Net Zero Target After Taking Donations From Funders of Tufton Street Climate Denial Group
The Conservative leader and her Shadow Net Zero Secretary took funding from key backers of lobby groups campaigning to curb action against climate change
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Warning Over UK ‘Slide Towards Authoritarianism’ After Raft of Just Stop Oil Prison Sentences Are Upheld
The Court of Appeal upheld sentences totalling 35 years for climate activists
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‘I’m a Labour Councillor and This Is Why My Party Should Ground Heathrow Plans and Rejoin the EU Instead’
Rachel Reeves is looking in the ‘wrong direction’ for stimulating growth in the UK, argues Labour Councillor Salman Shaheen
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Climate Activists to March on Courts as Mass Just Stop Oil Appeal Kicks Off
The Met Police have promised arrests if the protesters, who are campaigning for protest rights, step out of line
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‘Trump’s Return Must Be a Turning Point for the UK to Stop Pandering to America and Forge a Brighter Future With Europe’
Trump is taking the US in a dark direction and we must not let ourselves be dragged along with him, argues Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer
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How a Police Crackdown on Climate Protests Made Me Join the Frontline for the First Time
“For me, the act of civil disobedience was a stand against the increasing erosion of a fundamental pillar of democracy – our right to protest”
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The Times Is Forced to Correct a Misleading Article Claiming Electric Vehicle Demand Is Falling When It’s Actually Rising
Britain’s ‘newspaper of record’ had two complaints over inaccuracy upheld against it in one day
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‘2024 Was the First Year Above 1.5C of Global Warming – Here’s How We Should Respond’
Extinction Rebellion UK reflects on the meaning of this historic moment
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2025 Is the Year Extinction Rebellion Demanded We Should Go Zero Carbon but ‘Britain Has Woefully Failed’
The Government is ‘absolutely not going to save us… 2025 needs to be the year we start to save ourselves’
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Tortoise and the Heir: The ‘Slow News’ Media Firm Behind the Observer Sale and the Curious Company It Keeps
As the Guardian announces the ‘sale’ of the 233-year-old Observer to Tortoise Media, Carole Cadwalladr takes a closer look at its moneymen
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Climate Groups Demand Gatwick and Luton Airport Expansion Decision is Delayed
The Government has already approved some airport expansion plans, but these two will be a bigger test of Ministers’ climate commitments
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Bad Cops: Why the Climate Crisis Keeps Getting Worse No Matter How Many Conferences World Leaders Hold
Governments and businesses keep talking the talk on preventing a catastrophic climate breakdown, while consistently refusing to walk the walk
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Was COP29 a Cop-Out? Those Bearing the Brunt of Climate Change Say Yes
“In many ways, this COP was a deep disappointment”, those feeling the full force of catastrophic climate change tell the Byline Podcast
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‘The Selfishness of Wealthy Nations Trying to Shirk the Bill for a Climate Crisis They Caused’
COP29 was far from the dramatic turning point in the fight against catastrophic climate change that the world needs
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Bloomberg ‘Misled’ Investors on Green Credentials of Bonds Worth More Than $50 Billion
The financial data company is accused of listing dozens of bonds as raising funds for a ‘sustainable purpose’ when they could be used to fund fossil fuel companies and deforestation
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COP29: The Gap Between Political Action and the Accelerating Pace of Catastrophic Climate Change Is Terrifying
World leaders are failing to commit to the dramatic action required to prevent devastating climate change, reports Mike Buckley from the COP29 summit
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COP29: As the Climate Crisis Intensifies, Trump and World Leaders Are Leaving the Stage
The global consensus on tackling climate change is fragmenting at the very moment action is most needed
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GMB Weather Presenter Says Editors Tell Her to Only Highlight the Most Extreme Climate Disasters as There’s Too Many to Cover
“We have to [only] choose the ‘good’ ones that have the best pictures or the highest fatalities”, says Laura Tobin
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COP29: Drastic Action Is Needed to Bring Global Climate Systems Back From the Brink of Collapse
The election of the climate-denying President elect Donald Trump has raised the stakes at this week’s global climate summit
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More Than a Million Pallets of Unusable Covid PPE Costing £8 Billion Have So Far Gone Up in Smoke
Billions of pounds were spent on unusable protective equipment, with priority contracts handed to associates of Conservative ministers
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Donald Trump is a Catastrophe for our Climate and we Must Start Preparing for the Disasters to Come
Governments around the world need to act now to prevent the worst of what is coming our way
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Kemi Badenoch and Shadow Net Zero Secretary Funded by Backers of Tufton Street Climate Science Denial Group
The Conservative party leader and several leading members of her new Shadow Cabinet have ties to the opaquely-funded group campaigning against plans to reach Net Zero
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Ecocide and Genocide: What Trump Wants in Gaza and Why Jill Stein is No Answer
Trump plans to accelerate Israel’s violence in Gaza, male violence against women and industrial violence against the earth. He must be stopped.
