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Byline Times‘ coverage of the consequences of, and responses to, the climate crisis
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COP28: Meet the Top UK Politicians Paid Big Money to ‘Advise’ Oil-Rich Gulf States
Gulf states pushing fossil fuels at COP have hired Philip Hammond, Tony Blair, Francis Maude and other former leading politicians as ‘consultants’
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Stark Realities: ‘There’s a Big Delivery Challenge that’s Not Addressed by Coming to Dubai and Setting New Targets’
Chris Stark of the Climate Change Committee says the ‘acid test’ of COP28 is how it deals with fossil fuels
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A Message to White Environmentalists: Demanding a Fossil Fuel Phase Out is Not Enough
The poverty blindness of too many climate activists overlooks the huge complexities facing the world’s poorest
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Government has ‘No Vision’ for Preparing UK for Extreme Weather, New Report Finds
The lack of a risk strategy to tackle weather crises means ministers are not properly informed about how to tackle problems, according to the National Audit Office
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‘The BBC’s Claim About COP28 Secret Oil Deals Is Deeply Flawed’
The job of journalism is not to reinforce a pre-existing bias, writes Nafeez Ahmed
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First Past the Post Voting System Barrier to Urgent Action on Climate Crisis, Major Environmental Groups Say
Climate-conscious voters are locked out by our ‘winner-takes-all’ electoral system, a new report finds
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Nearly 6 Million Homes at Risk of Flooding as Rishi Sunak Cut Flood Protection Schemes
As the UK experiences more extreme weather, spending watchdog criticises Government cuts, reports David Hencke
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Rishi Sunak Trashed the UK’s Entire Climate Change Strategy for Nothing
New polling shows the Conservatives are set to lose big to Sadiq Khan in next year’s London mayoral election, despite Sunak’s attempts to weaponise, anti-green, anti-ULEZ votes
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Extinction Rebellion Co-Founder Convicted for Smashing Department for Transport Glass: Her Planned Speech to the Jury in Full
Dr Gail Bradbrook had been threatened with contempt of court for giving her motivations for direct action. She carried on through over a dozen interruptions.
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Early Signs Show Sadiq Khan’s Expanded Ultra Low Emissions Zone is Working – and the Culture Warriors Have Gone Quiet
It was meant to be a disaster, but the doomsayers appear to be in retreat.
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When Will the Sea Claim England’s Lowlands? We Don’t Know
As we continue to worsen climate change by burning fossil fuels, all these places will become harder and more expensive to defend – until the day they can’t be defended any more
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National Gridlock: The UK’s Energy System is Broken – Will Labour’s Plans Fix It?
Britain’s privatised energy distribution network could hold back Labour’s ambitious plans for renewables
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Nine UK Areas Breach Legal Pollution Limits as Manchester Tops League
Campaigners say the most polluting vehicles must be taken off the roads to save lives
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Surge in Petrol-Guzzling SUVs Means Carbon Emissions From Petrol and Diesel Cars Are No Longer Falling
Bigger, flashier 4x4s in urban centres are reversing progress in reducing emissions from petrol and diesel cars.
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Ugandan Climate Justice Activist Urges Insurers to Boycott Fossil Fuel Projects
She urged the companies to “insure our future” and cut ties with global fossil fuel giants
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‘I Did Prison Time for Mentioning Climate Change in Court. Meanwhile Rapists Walk Free’
A climate protester sent to prison twice this year tells Josiah Mortimer the Government has its priorities all wrong
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Unravelling the Enigma of Aerosol Masking: The Climate Effect We Need to Talk About
Robin Boardman, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, says we need solutions to a knotty unintended consequence of moving to renewables.
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‘A Growing Number of People Believe in the Same Values As We Do’: The Greens Look Ahead to the Next Election
Siân Berry, former Co-Leader of the Green Party, is hoping to be Caroline Lucas’ successor as MP for Brighton Pavilion
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‘If You Ask People to Change their Minds Quickly, they Struggle with It’: Chris Packham on the Need for Political Parties to Step Up to Save Our Planet
Stuart Spray speaks to the activist and TV presenter, who has announced he is challenging the Prime Minister on the legality of abandoning key net zero commitments
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‘The Conservatives are Flogging Our Collective Environmental Security’
By backing ambitious and transformative environmental policies, Labour could offer a clear vision for substantive change, writes the CEO of the Environmental Justice Foundation
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‘From Brexit to Clexit? Delaying Climate Action is the Right’s Next Big Political Culture War’
The manner in which the Conservatives’ anti-net zero campaign has been waged has resonant parallels with that which produced Brexit, writes Julian Petley
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Sunak on Net Zero: Desperate, Cynical and Doomed to Fail
The climate was the one last issue on which Britain could credibly claim a degree of global leadership – the Conservatives’ cheap electioneering has shattered that
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‘Sunak’s Climate Failure is Even Worse Than You Think’
The Prime Minister’s abandonment of a series of climate pledges hides a much bigger failure, writes Rachel Donald
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‘Sunak’s Climate Betrayal is a Retreat Into the Politics of Unpopulism’
The Prime Minister is abandoning a popular green agenda in order to benefit a shrinking minority of voters, writes Josiah Mortimer
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Insurance Firms Won’t Provide Financial Backing for Cumbrian Coal Mine
Four companies have ruled out underwriting the controversial plans for a deep mine off the coast at St Bees
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Plans to Massively Expand UK’s Largest Private Jet Airport Face Mounting Local Opposition
“We must stop expanding aviation until the technology exists to provide emission free, low-noise flights.”
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Government Changes to UK’s Emissions Trading Scheme: More Evidence of Sunak Abandoning the Green Project
An adjustment to the scheme will make it cheaper for companies to pollute, boosting their corporate profits
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Climate ‘Sceptic’ MP Steve Baker in War of Words Over Local Campaign Group Bidding to Unseat Him
The former European Research Group chairman was a prominent Brexiteer but has now turned his attention to anti-Net Zero campaigning.
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Courts to Face Wave of Protests as Climate Campaigners Say Right to Jury Trial ‘Under Attack’
Climate campaigners say the right to jury trial faces unprecedented threats – with several activists facing court proceedings for telling jurors of their ‘right to acquit’ on conscience
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The Links Between the ULEZ Protests, Radical Anti-Vaxxers and the Far Right
The heavily-publicised protests were not quite the grassroots movement the right-wing press made them out to be
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Big Oil Billions and The Real Cancel Culture Threatening Brits With Prison for Telling the Truth
How the legal system is silencing climate activists fighting for their right to speak up about the crisis
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‘Conservative Attempts to Fight a Climate Change ‘Culture War’ Betray Our Planet’
Conservative strategists are prioritising partisan games over the survival of the planet, writes Tom Burke
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BP and Shell Dish Out Bonanza Payouts to Shareholders as Climate Crisis Rages
The fight against climate change is failing to put a dent in the huge profits of the same companies who helped fuel the crisis
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How the Younger Generation is Being Betrayed on Climate Change
As the climate crisis worsens, our politicians are increasingly giving in to the demands of corporate lobbyists
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‘There’s Nothing Patriotic about Anti-Green Extremism’
It is no coincidence that the Government’s backtracking reflects the anti-green rhetoric often involving those who pushed for Brexit
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As Sea Ice Melts and Forests Burn, Will the World Heat More than We Feared?
If there’s any risk future climate change may be worse than we’re anticipating, we must double-down on decarbonisation even more urgently, writes Charlie Gardner
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Climate Change and Culture Wars: Rhetoric Can’t Mask Reality
How the right-wing elites of politics and media want you to give up on the climate crisis
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Uncertain Waters: Deep Sea Mining Faces Critical Turning Point
The pressure is on to decide how best to use – if at all – the unexplored deep that humans have decided is the common property for the good of all mankind
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‘The World Burns as Our Dangerous Age of Unreason Fuels the Flames’
The Conservative Party may well be on the wrong side of public opinion – as well as history – when it comes to its lack of commitment to tackling the climate emergency
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Voters Want Tough Action on the Climate Crisis – And Are Willing to Act, New Polling Shows
Despite climate-denying spin, almost 50% of voters rank reaching net zero carbon emissions highly important for the country – new polling for Byline Supplement by Omnisis reveals
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Media Watchdog Ofcom ‘Ignores Complaints’ About Climate Science Denial on GB News and Right-Wing Outlets
An Extinction Rebellion spokesperson says their complaints about misleading climate reporting have been left gathering dust.
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‘A Burning World Shows Net Zero is Not Enough’
Current UK Government policy seems aimed at continuing to pollute for as long as we can and then switching it all off at the last minute, writes Charlie Gardner
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‘The Climate Emergency is Too Important to be a Party-Political Battle’
The Co-Leader of the Green Party sets out the importance of maintaining a political consensus on climate change
