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Byline Times’ coverage of the consequences of, and responses to, the climate crisis
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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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Nigel Farage Branded a ‘Con Artist’ by Green Party Leader Who Challenges Him to Climate Debate
Reform UK leader accused of being “bankrolled by fossil fuel interests, climate deniers, and major polluters” after he questioned the link between human activity and climate change
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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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‘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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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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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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‘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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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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Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as “middle class” protesters causing “chaos” while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners
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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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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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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.
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The Climate Case for Having More Children and Why we Should Be Concerned by the UK’s Record low Fertility Rate
We are facing the ‘literally unprecedented demographic stress of a permanently ageing global population’
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Anger from Green Groups and Transport Campaigners as Rachel Reeves Freezes Fuel Duty While Bus Fares Surge
Maintaining the £3bn tax break for motorists has been a long-term campaign of The Sun newspaper
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Pink Boats, Flares and Zombie ‘Die Ins’: Climate Protesters Storm City of London Insurance Giant HQs in Week of Action
Extinction Rebellion activists target 52 firms in week-long campaign demanding end to fossil fuel project insurance, as arrests made in City protests
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From the Sea to the Thames: Ocean Rowing MP’s Bid to Put ‘Climate and Nature’ at the Heart of Everything Government Does
Liberal Democrat MP and former ocean rower Dr Roz Savage is challenging the Government’s “narrow” environmental plans
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Clean Water Protesters to March on Parliament Launch as They Urge Labour to Review ‘Failing, Greedy’ System
A clean water coalition is calling for the new Government to enforce existing laws and comprehensively review the UK’s entire water infrastructure and will march on parliament on 3 November
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Hurricane Milton: How Right Wing Media Ignored a Report Showing Climate Change Made the Storm Much Worse
As destruction spreads across Florida this week, Media Storm examines why the media is choosing to ignore the real causes of such extreme weather events
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Starmer’s £22 Billion Carbon Capture Gamble is a ‘Waste of Money and Helps Polluting Sectors Avoid Changing How They Operate’
The Government is making a huge bet on a technology that has never previously delivered, argues climate campaigner Alethea Warrington
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New Coal, Oil and Gas Projects are Still on the Table under UK Government’s Planning Reforms, say Campaigners
The Government is accused of failing to rule out new fossil fuel projects, and in some cases potentially cheering them on, in updated national plan
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Candriam Faces ‘Greenwashing’ Accusations Over Investment in Grenfell Fire Company Kingspan
Kingspan was slammed as ‘deeply entrenched and persistently dishonesty’ in the Grenfell Inquiry but has been kept on in ‘sustainable’ investment portfolios
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Qatar 2022: ‘How the Greenest World Cup Ever was the Dirtiest in History’
Fifa president Gianni Infantino boasted that the World Cup would be carbon neutral – here’s what really happened after the final whistle
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Activists to Launch Fresh Wave of Protests Against ‘Draconian’ Anti-Protest Laws as Leading Actress Speaks Out
Campaigners plan civil disobedience outside courts, demanding meeting with Attorney General over harsh sentencing of peaceful protesters
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‘If the UK is Serious About Tackling Climate Change it Must Combat Military Emissions’
Like David Lammy, the military recognises the threat of climate breakdown. But that hasn’t stopped the sector’s vast emissions
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Can the West and Russia Co-operate to Save a Melting Arctic?
“Half the Arctic is now a black box of empty data” as Russian scientists and journalists no longer work with the Arctic Council
