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Byline Times‘ coverage of the consequences of, and responses to, the climate crisis
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Wasted Opportunity: Household Recycling Stalls as EU Target to Increase It was Quietly Abandoned after Brexit Vote
A new waste strategy was drawn up by the Government in 2018 but, five years on, there are no delivery dates for it, according to a new report by the independent spending watchdog
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Can the UAE Reconcile its COP28 Agenda with its Plans to Accelerate Oil Production?
The UAE, reliant on producing and exporting heavily polluting fuels, is likely to oppose the transformative measures required to incentivise nations to move away from new oil and gas production
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‘In a World Without Sea Ice, What Next for Nature?’
We can no longer prevent the extinction of many species – but will this provide the wake-up call we need?
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Britain Stuck in an Investment ‘Doom Loop” Says New Research
Labour’s abandonment of its green prosperity plan is emblematic of an economy that has slumped to the bottom of the G7 in mobilising investment
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Government’s Target to Abolish Fossil Fuel Use in All Power Generation by 2035 Not Credible, Report Finds
The Government is expecting taxpayers to pay through their fuel bills for the transition to zero use of fossil fuels but has given no indication of the extra cost
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Photos Emerge of Jeremy Hunt at XR Rally – as Supreme Court Prepares for Legal Challenge to Oil Drilling in England that Could ‘End All New Projects’
Conservatives have passed a suite of laws targeting Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil over the past two years.
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Demonising the ‘Green Blob’: Fossil Fuel-Funded Conservatives Criticise Labour’s Energy Plans
Is it any surprise Conservative politicians and media rush to back North Sea gas and oil given their funding?
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How Major Economies are Breaking their own Climate Change Pledges
OECD countries are continuing to pour tens of billions of pounds into fossil fuel projects, despite their obligations to switch to clean energy sources
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Experts Call for Increased Scrutiny of Green Financial Products Created by Citi and BNP Paribas
Critics say fossil fuel companies are abusing a regulatory vacuum in green finance
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The Nova Kakhovka Dam Destruction will have a Global Ecological Impact
Mark Temnycky explores the consequences on global food supplies of what appears to be yet another example of the Kremlin’s ecological terrorism
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Sadiq Khan’s Pollution Paradox: On the Silvertown Tunnel, and When Rhetoric Doesn’t Match Action
Kids in one of London’s poorest boroughs, Newham, are struggling to breathe. So why is the London Mayor pushing ahead with a new road tunnel that could make the situation even worse?
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‘Denials Over Scale of Climate Challenge Faced are Military-Grade Greenwash’
A new report reveals that the Ministry of Defence has made no real progress on reducing the carbon footprint of its military bases in the UK
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Carbon Capture: A Smokescreen for the Fossil Fuel Industry
Britain is ‘strikingly unprepared’ to face the escalating consequences of inadequate action on climate change
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Agribusiness: An Impediment to Net Zero?
Thomas Perrett explores how factory farming and agribusiness industries have successfully lobbied politicians, advocating against carbon taxes and biodiversity targets
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Is the European Court of Human Rights the Next Frontier for Climate Activists?
Kate Bermingham reports on how the law is being used to make up for climate change failure, as three major cases head towards the ECHR
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‘Isn’t Journalism about Finding New Stories?’: The Climate News the Media Ignores
Rachel Donald talks to scientists and activists who are turning to protest because of the gate-keepers in the media who refuse to cover their research
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Sea Change: The Deteriorating State of the Mediterranean
Simon Speakman Cordall talks to the fishermen of Tunisia about the impact on their livelihoods as the Mediterranean becomes the most polluted sea in the world
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East African Oil Pipeline ‘Doing Little, If Anything, to Change People’s Material Conditions’
There are concerns that the project will tie Uganda, Tanzania and East African countries to fossil fuels at the expense of a robust, diverse and lasting green economies
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Police Protest Clampdown: Just Stop Oil Supporters Arrested After ‘Blanket Ban’ Imposed on Their Peaceful Marches in London
Josiah Mortimer reports on a spree of arrests of peaceful protestors in the capital
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Lawyers ‘Genuinely Afflicted by Conscience’ Should Not Represent Fossil Fuel Interests, Says Bar Council Ethics Chair
A number of barristers are speaking out against the ‘cab rank’ rule, under which advocates have to accept any case that lands on their desks, faced with their concerns about the climate emergency
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How Climate Change-Induced Food Inflation has hit the Poorest Hardest
Prolonged inaction on climate change has left those at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder exposed to the fluctuations of an unpredictable global market, writes Thomas Perrett
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Extinction Rebellion Faces the Ugly Side of the Press
The established media has been determined to stir up concerns that XR’s big four-day action will disrupt the London Marathon, writes Stephen Colegrave
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‘Milestone’ Guidance on Climate Change: Solicitors ‘Not Obliged to Provide Advice’ to Big Polluters
Law Society says solicitors in England and Wales can ‘take into account the likely impact’ of their work upon the climate crisis when taking on new clients
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Overdue Impartiality: GB News and the Voice of the Octopus
With mounting Ofcom complaints, Julian Petley looks at the ‘person’ behind the controversial new broadcaster and its biases toward climate change
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MPs Urged to Ditch Ties to Parliamentary Lobby Group Run by ‘Climate Denialist’
A controversial parliamentary group that successfully opposes fuel price rises and tough climate action is backed by a campaigner who denies that humans are causing climate change, Josiah Mortimer reveals
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‘Sunak’s ‘Green Day’ Confirms His Broken Climate Promises’
Rishi Sunak’s new list of green announcements merely shows how far the UK has fallen behind other nations on reaching Net Zero, reports Thomas Perrett
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What is the Future for British Steel?
Pressures of decarbonisation and evolving international markets could lead to a significant slump in its competitiveness, writes Thomas Perrett
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Insulate Britain Activists Defiant After Being Locked Up for ‘Speaking Truth’ on Climate
“I’ve always known that it was the right thing to do, and paying this price is the right thing to do as well. It had to be done,” one ex-prisoner tells Josiah Mortimer Insulate Britain protesters locked up for defying a judge’s ban from speaking about climate change and fuel poverty have told Byline Times…
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Britain’s Top Lawyers Sign Climate Declaration Refusing to Prosecute Activists
The 120 lawyers signing a ‘Declaration of Conscience’ are slammed by Daily Mail as ‘woke’
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In Deep Water: As Europe’s Drought Worsens, the Government Remains Silent on Water Company Failures
The Conservatives’ inaction to alleviate droughts in England is indicative of the party’s wider ideological failings, writes Iain Overton
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Can Plans to Decarbonise Heavy Industry in South Wales Deliver?
Andrew Taylor-Dawson reports on £30bn plan which relies on controversial ‘carbon capture’ and appears to be dependent on developing a deregulated Welsh freeport
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Save Our Statues: But Cut Down the Trees
After 110 trees were felled overnight in Plymouth, Katherine Denkinson looks at the city’s climate-change-sceptic head of Council and his links to the Tufton Street network of lobbyists
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‘Cabinet Reshuffles Won’t Fix this Government’s Net Zero Failures’
Thomas Perrett looks at the Whitehall changes over environmental policy, and sees a lot of deckchairs being re-arranged which fail to address the climate emergency
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UN Ocean Treaty: ‘A Step Forward, but Achieving Action will be the Real Test’
Many countries fail to protect, or even actively exploit, their coastal marine reserves – how will new initiatives be different?
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‘Courts of Conscience and the Climate Emergency’
Tom Hardy explores the role of the judiciary in combatting the climate emergency as activists are prohibited from mentioning the issue in their defence in court
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Aviation Growth and Decarbonisation: A Circle You Can’t Square
A new report casts further doubt over the Government’s Jet Zero strategy and its inherent contradictions, reports Andrew Taylor-Dawson
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UK’s Biggest Polluter Doubles Profits while Raking In Hundreds of Millions in Government Subsidies
The UK gives more to bioenergy firms than any other country in the world, reports Rachel Donald
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‘Young People are Being Let Down by Politics on the Climate Crisis’
The climate crisis is at the top of young people’s agenda but political parties are failing to meet their concerns. Is electoral reform the only hope of change?
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Putin’s Energy Attack: Surviving a Warm Winter Battle is Not Winning the War
Though gas prices have fallen they are expected to rise again this Summer, so Europe can waste no more time diversifying its energy market, says Mark Temnycky
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Preparing UK’s Homes for Extreme Weather ‘Chronically Under-Funded’, New Report Finds
Adaptation to the effects of climate change remains ‘overlooked’, according to a new report by the Government’s independent advisory body on tackling the issue
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Hundreds of ‘Toxic’ North Sea Oil Spills Since 2019
Sam Bright reports on the scale of pollution being pumped into the North Sea
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Concerns that Government’s Finance Bill Benefits Big Money and Harms the Planet
The Financial Services and Markets Bill risks wrecking the UK’s commitment to net zero, writes Thomas Perrett
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Labour MPs Quit Parliamentary Lobbying Group Set Up to Slash Tax on Petrol as Ties to Big Polluters Emerge
One Labour MP quit after a report by the APPG criticising the move to electric vehicles was backed by the Global Warming Policy Foundation – often described as the most high-profile climate ‘sceptic’ body in the UK
