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Byline Times’ coverage of the consequences of, and responses to, the climate crisis
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Who’s a Bigger Threat? ‘Eco-Terrorists’ or Thugs’?
Some have criticised two-year sentences handed out for violent disorder during the riots as excessively harsh. But weeks earlier, Just Stop Oil protesters received four and five-year terms for a peaceful protest
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Just Stop Oil’s ‘Whole Truth Five’ to Appeal Years-Long Sentences after Sun Journalist Exposed M25 Disruption Plans
The five activists face the “longest ever” jail terms for peaceful protest, and international NGOs have rallied behind them
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ULEZ: ‘How the Conservatives Got Air Quality Initiative So Wrong and Why Sadiq Khan Must Go Further’
A supertax is needed on SUVs and a tripling of on-street parking prices.
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World Temperature Records Demonstrate Urgent Need to Speed Up Climate Action as We Enter ‘Truly Uncharted Territory’
“Forget 1.5C and 2C. Let’s hope – if we fight really hard – we can keep the rise this side of 3C.”
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Cambridge Students Vow ‘More Protests’ After University Decides to Accept ‘Large Gift’ Donations from Fossil Fuel Companies
The University overruled its temporary ban on fossil fuel cash with a new policy which could see it take multi-million-pound gifts from the industry
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Labour Government Set to Defend Rishi Sunak’s ‘Weak’ Climate Adaptation Plan in Court
Campaigners are challenging the Government’s ‘inherited’ strategy to protect the UK from extreme weather
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Chris Packham Slams ‘Sickening’ Media and Met Police Over Just Stop Oil Case – And Urges Government to Repeal Law Before Protests ‘Escalate’
‘The lack of perspective that’s generated by the mainstream press and the lack of reasonable accounting for mainstream news media this week has been simply appalling’
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The Blue Wall’s Green Revolt: Conservative Support Eroded in Election Due To Weakening Climate Commitments
Almost half of voters in the 251 seats lost by the Conservatives in the 2024 General Election believed that the Government should not have abandoned its net zero policy commitments
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Climate Report Reveals Two-Thirds of Necessary UK Emissions Reductions Required By 2030 Are Not Covered by Policy Plans
A report by the Climate Change Committee shows just how much action the new Labour Government needs to take to achieve the country’s targets
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‘Why the Media Is To Blame for Just Stop Oil Protests’
‘For the media to be interviewing political leaders and not even asking the questions is shocking’
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‘By Mobilising Their Members Onto the Streets, Is this a New Dawn for the Power of Conservation Charities to Enact Change?’
The influence of wildlife charities has been insignificant in the face of the financial and lobbying might of the vested interests profiting from nature destruction, writes Charlie Gardner
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How Climate Change Went From a Hot Political Issue to a Tool to ‘Divide and Polarise’ the Public in Just Five Years
Climate leadership is not the vote loser its opponents like to portray it as – but the danger for the climate movement is assuming public support will endure forever, argues Russell Warfield
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Nine ‘Dismal’ Government Failings on the Environment Exposed by Green Group
This General Election will be “pivotal for people and the planet” as ‘MP Watch’ election campaign targeting climate action ‘delayers’ launched
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Government ‘Independent Adviser’ Who ‘Backs Ban’ on Climate and Palestine Groups has Paid Roles with Defence and Business Lobbyists
The Conservatives’ domestic extremism adviser Lord John Walney is accused of conflicts of interest over a proposed ban of groups such as Palestine Action and Just Stop Oil
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Drax to ‘Begin one of the Most Expensive Energy Projects in the World – And UK Public Will Pay Three Times Over’
Through its expensive and harmful bioenergy with carbon capture scheme (BECCS), Drax will impose a triple cost on taxpayers in the form of public money for subsidies, higher energy bills, and more extreme weather, the CEO of the Environmental Justice Foundation argues
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‘We Must Stop Incitement of Violence Against Environmental Activists Before Someone is Seriously Harmed’
Regulators are failing to stop the media from encouraging vigilante action against activists – the law must step in to keep them safe, argues Tom Hardy
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Retired Social Worker Who Faced Two Years in Prison for Holding Up Sign Outside Climate Trial is Cleared
Campaigners say the judge throwing out Government claims that Trudi Warner was in contempt of court is a victory for free speech
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‘An Assault on Democracy’: Rishi Sunak Backs Bill to Overturn Sadiq Khan’s ULEZ Extension
The Conservatives are seeking to overturn the London Mayor’s flagship clean air scheme, despite being more than 20 points behind him in the race for City Hall.
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Sunak’s Government Misses Another Key Environmental Target
A National Audit Office report shows government pledges to decarbonise domestic heating has failed to meet half its target
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Rishi Sunak’s Plans for New Gas Power Stations Will Leave UK ‘Stranded’ in Push for Net Zero
The Chair of a cross-party committee condemned the Prime Minister’s plans for a new wave of fossil fuel power plants
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Slow Progress Leaves High Seas Unprotected One Year On from Historic Agreement
The High Seas Treaty is seen as vital to meeting an international target to protect a third of oceans by 2030
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Revealed: 85% of Leading UK Pension Providers Found to have ‘Inadequate’ or ‘Poor’ Climate Action Plans
Despite making commitments to actively engage with efforts to tackle climate change, a new study found many providers to be failing in multiple areas
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Why is the Environment Regulator Investing Millions in the Most Climate-Polluting Banks?
The Environment Agency vowed that its pension fund would be going green – Byline Times’ analysis suggests this has not been the case
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Clean Air Activists Accuse London Mayor Sadiq Khan of ‘Burying’ his Controversial Silvertown Tunnel Project as Election Nears
The £1.2 billion tunnel is arguably the biggest infrastructure project Khan has approved – but he rarely brings it up
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Surprise ‘People’s Assembly’ Comes to Court as Climate Protestors’ ‘Last Legal Defence’ May Be Removed
The Government appears keen to limit climate protestors’ legal justifications for direct action
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Climate Movement Pledges ‘Maximum Disruption’ to Hold Keir Starmer to Account for £28bn Green U-Turn
Protesters plan to target the Labour leader’s decision to ditch his flagship climate commitment
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‘The Government is Looking the Other Way as Our Rivers Are Being Poisoned’
Ministers’ failure to properly monitor nitrogen pollution in our waterways is effectively encouraging further breaches of environmental law by farmers and big business, reports Thomas Perrett
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Caroline Lucas to Demand Ban on MPs Working for Fossil Fuel Giants as Polluters Spend Millions Shaping UK Politics
Several serving MPs work for oil and gas firms, while many more accept gifts or take jobs for big-polluting sectors after leaving Parliament
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Leading UN Figure Gives Scathing Verdict on UK Government’s Climate Campaign Clampdown and “Chilling” Effect on Protest Rights
The UN’s spokesman on ‘climate defenders’ hit out at the Conservatives’ suite of anti-protest laws – and media rhetoric against green activists.
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‘Contradictory’ and ‘Self-Defeating’: MPs Slam Government for Building New Houses in High-Flood Risk Areas
As Chancellor, Rishi Sunak reduced the budget for flood protection
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Extinction Rebellion Co-Founder Slams Legal System After Suspended Sentence for HS2 Protest
Dr Gail Bradbrook is among the most high-profile climate activists to be sentenced over protests
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The Failure of COP28 to Agree a ‘Phase-out’ of Fossil Fuels and its Disproportionate Impact on the Global South
The difference between ‘transitioning away’ and ‘phasing-out’ fossil fuels is significant, writes Stuart Spray
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‘We’re Crossing a Global Tipping Point on Fossil Fuels and There’s No Going Back’
Nafeez Ahmed argues that, despite mixed feelings about the COP28 agreement, it marks a real step forward
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‘Keeping Carbon in the Ground’ Missed the Point: How COP28 Signals End of Oil
Western hypocrisy nearly scuppered global climate negotiations. But now the direction of travel is clear. Byline Times’ columnist sums up his conclusions after addressing the Dubai summit
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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.
