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‘Beware Absolute Monarchs Bearing Gifts’
Afsana Lachaux warns of the impact of Britain’s dependence on the £140bn invested by Gulf states, from the impact on London’s housing to a rising political influence
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A City Caught Between Industrial Change and Climate Change
Sam Bright examines how Britain can learn from the city of Groningen in the Netherlands, and how our recent political history provides a warning to the Dutch establishment
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Sponsor Microsoft Partnering with Egypt’s Big Oil Drive to ‘Increase’ Fossil Fuel Investments
Documents reveal Microsoft is working with the Egyptian Government to use COP27 to maximise fossil fuel exploitation – and the owners of the Daily Mail are helping them
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‘“Some Sort of Reparations” Cannot Be Out of the Question’
COP27 has exposed the hypocrisy of world leaders who refuse to acknowledge it is incumbent on wealthier nations to invest in worldwide climate adaptation, writes Thomas Perrett
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Boris Johnson’s Ex-PR Guru Lands Role at Fracking Giant
The appointment raises fresh questions about the ‘revolving door’ between energy companies and the Government, reports Sascha Lavin
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‘They Know Who I Am, They Know What I’m Doing’: Arrested Journalists Speak Out over New Policing Act
Josiah Mortimer talks to Tom Bowles and Rich Felgate who were locked up for covering an environmental protest, and reports on more repressive legislation to come.
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The Hidden Climate Bomb: Carbon Footprint of World’s Armies Higher than Russia
A new analysis of undocumented military carbon emissions estimates that they are equivalent to 85% of all carbon emitted by all the world’s passenger cars, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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World Leaders Remain in Thrall to Fossil Fuel Giants
A series of geopolitical events have provided an opportunity for energy lobbyists to bend the ears of power, reports Thomas Perrett
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‘Climate Change is Not Gender Neutral’
Energy action goes hand in hand with gender equality – which is why female climate change representatives as speakers, panellists and thought leaders at COP27 is imperative, writes Rabina Khan
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Environment Agency Prosecutions 6% of the Level they were a Decade Ago
As rivers fill with sewage, budget cuts have contributed to a decrease in enforcement actions against corporations by the Environment Agency, reports Max Colbert
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Climate Scientists Blind to ‘Existential Threat’ to Humanity, New Research Warns
A new report suggests that, far from being alarmist, the real social and economic dangers of the climate emergency are outside of boundaries of traditional climate science
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REVEALED: 52 Peers Sitting in House of Lords Hold Interests in Fossil Fuel Industry
The finding raises questions about the UK’s commitment to achieving net zero – with one MP telling Byline Times ‘it’s akin to asking arsonists to legislate on robust fire safety legislation’
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‘Hunt Havoc’ Wreaking Misery in the Countryside
A new report details the impact of fox hunts on local communities
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Can Brazil’s new President Save the Amazon from Total Destruction?
Jon Lubbock explains the challenges awaiting President Lula, and how the rest of the world is also implicated in deforestation
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Government Announces £26 Million Funding for Firm Owned by Tory Donor
The owner of the company belongs to a family that has donated millions to the Conservative Party in recent years, reports Sam Bright
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Corporate Lobbying Threatens to Undermine Biodiversity
A new report shows the extent to which powerful corporations and fossil fuel interests exert their influence to delay or roll back legislation to protect the environment
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Government Investing in Carbon Polluters Funded By Major Conservative Donor
An investment firm whose CEO has given more than £1m to the Tory Party has a third of its assets tied up in petrostates which benefited from a UK Government fund
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REVEALED: Rishi Sunak Received £141,000 from Energy Interests this Year
The Conservative Party remains indebted to big money interests in oil, gas and aviation
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Trump and Putin’s War on the ‘Green Agenda’
Nafeez Ahmed reveals how the Russian energy giant Gazprom planned to control Ukraine’s gas and backed Donald Trump due to Putin’s existential fear of net zero
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A Chemical in the Works? The Mystery of the Marine Deaths on Teesside
Graham Williamson reports on a spate of unexplained sea life deaths on the north-east coast – and a new freeport being built on the site of an iconic steelworks nearby
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The Myth of the Blocked Ambulance
Jet McDonald explores how a belief that environmental protesters are blocking ambulances is used to justify anti-protest legislation and divert us from the climate emergency
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Fracking Hell: Living with the Government’s Unpopular Policy
Stuart Spray speaks to the residents of Great Plumpton, close to a shale gas exploration site, about the realities of fracking – as Westminster descends into chaos over banning it
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Britain’s Stark Choice Ahead: Transformation or Collapse
The country is following a familiar pattern of environmental, energy and economic-driven state failure – and if the next government refuses to break with neoliberal orthodoxy, it will only accelerate this downwards trajectory, writes Nafeez Ahmed
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Environment Agency Investigations Fall by 30% Amid Sewage Crisis
Government cuts have hamstrung the regulator at exactly the wrong moment, reports Andrew Kersley
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Government ‘Close to Decriminalising Waste Crime and Fly-Tipping’, say MPs
A Commons report accuses the Government of turning a blind eye to organised crime by failing to punish hundreds of thousands of offences which cost the taxpayer at least £1bn a year
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Manchester and Liverpool Join Forces to Explore Green Energy Potential for Powering Both Cities
A dynamic collaboration could turn two of England’s largest cities into green technology leaders in the race to net zero, reports Stuart Spray
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Britain and the World is Falling Behind on Climate Change, as COP27 Approaches
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shaken an already precarious consensus on climate action, says Thomas Perrett
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Is a Big Money Coalition Influencing Liz Truss’ Climate Change Policies?
Max Colbert reports on the well-funded, well-connected groups seemingly determined to water-down Britain’s climate commitments
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The Government is Prolonging the Cost of Living Crisis and the Climate Emergency
The Conservative Party’s decision to ‘cut the green crap’ has had far-reaching consequences, writes Thomas Perrett
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Conservative MP Gets Promotion at Energy Firm He Was Called to Resign From
Mark Pritchard has been handed a new, upgraded title, weeks after he was warned to quit the £46,800-a-year role
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How Austerity has Endangered Britain’s Ability to Safeguard its Natural Environment
Debilitating cuts have reduced regulators’ role in safeguarding the natural environment and stymied the Government’s approach to net zero, reports Thomas Perrett
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Climate Activists Evicted from Labour Conference Fringe Event Sponsored by Power Station Firm
The campaigners argued that the party should not be aligning itself to the company, which emitted million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere last year
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Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Funding Ties with Dirty Canadian Pipeline Giants and Palm Oil Deforestation
Rees-Mogg’s appointment as Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary suggests the Government is not committed to its own net zero aims, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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Five Policies that Jacob Rees-Mogg Should Adopt Now on Climate Change
Stuart Spray runs through some of the immediate actions that could be taken by the Government to address global warming and fix our energy system
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‘Liz Truss’ Premiership Will Spell Disaster for Net Zero’
A worrying environmental record and the appointment of climate change sceptics to the Cabinet doesn’t bode well for the UK’s climate commitments under the new Prime Minister, argues Thomas Perrett
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The Upside Down: Why Being ‘Bird-Brained’ is a Compliment
Warbling, tweeting, courting, teaching – John Mitchinson explores the ever-deepening mystery of birdsong
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12 Years of Conservative Failure on Renewables is Costing the Environment and the Economy
Thomas Perrett tracks the administrative missteps that have incubated the current energy crisis
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‘Ecological Disaster’: Sewage Pollution in the North Sea
Stuart Heaver looks at the failures of regulation and enforcement against Northumbrian Water, owned by a Hong Kong based billionaire
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From Tufton Street to Downing Street: The Opaque Charities at the Heart of Power
Rachel Morris tracks the burgeoning influence of ‘free market’ think tanks on Conservative politics
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How is Energy Transformation Key to Defeating Vladimir Putin?
A mass roll-out of home insulation, heating efficiency and heat-pumps could rapidly eliminate gas dependence in Europe – and neuter Putin’s most potent energy weapon, writes Nafeez Ahmed
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‘I Contracted a Parasitic Disease After Swimming in My Local River’
Alan Pretsell explains the human cost of privatisation and deregulation
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‘More Girls are Being Married Off Young due to Climate Change’
Salma Zulfiqar examines how the climate emergency is causing desperation around the world, particularly for women and girls, while people lack common knowledge of the crisis
