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Tell the government to act on the climate, not expand airports
The government is consulting on its aviation strategy up to 2050 - and it's not good news for the planet. The consultation ends Thursday 20 June (11.45pm)They claim that the aviation sector can grow to...
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Act for the Amazon
Large areas of the Amazon rainforest are on fire, waking up the world to a calamity: no natural disaster, but part of a long-running strategy of destruction and exploitation. Bolsonaro came to power,...
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Why we should celebrate the fracking moratorium - and fight for more
Guest post by Kim Hunter, Frack Free Scarborough (writing in personal capacity)Late last Friday night, Britain's Tory government announced an immediate moratorium on fracking until it finds 'compelling...
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Future Homes? Tell the Government to raise ambition for zero carbon homes
At the moment the UK lags behind other European countries when it comes to home energy efficiency - and also in fuel poverty, and excess winter deaths. As well as investing in insulating our existing...
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The New Global Crisis: Coronavirus
This will be a challenging time for all of us and our communities as we face an urgent race to tackle the coronavirus (COVID-19) and protect lives. It's really important over the next few weeks and...
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Save People not Planes!
Campaign against Climate Change is among over 250 organisations supporting the following open letter to national governments.You can support as an individual by signing the petitionIn the middle of the...
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Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice
Campaign against Climate Change supports the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice and has signed up to the following statement and demands: A New NormalThe COVID-19 pandemic exposes an economic...
View ArticleTake action to prevent expansion at Leeds Bradford airport - deadline 15 June
Despite the aviation industry's current crisis, the climate-wrecking ambition of long-term expansion at regional airports across the UK has not gone away. The latest is Leeds Bradford Airport which...
View ArticleNo climate justice without an end to racism
The brutal and casual murder of George Floyd has sparked an uprising. Protests have spread across the US and in other countries, fuelled by centuries of structural oppression and racism and a culture...
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Net Zero Festival brings accusations of greenwash
Climate breakdown cannot be a niche issue - it has to be a priority for us all. So we should welcome the Net Zero Festival, run by BusinessGreen, as an attempt to wake up mainstream businesses to the...
View ArticleStop funding for fossil fuels abroad NOW
It's not a good look for a country claiming to be a climate leader to be providing massive financial support for fossil fuel projects abroad. Last summer it was revealed that the UK government’s...
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As catastrophes unfold, have our leaders got the message yet?
It's never been clearer that the climate crisis is here now. Below are news stories from just the past month describing extreme weather events and catastrophes from around the world. UPDATED 28 July...
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What happened at COP26? And what next?
The short answers to these questions are simple: in the face of escalating climate breakdown, COP26 did little to shift our trajectory away from catastrophe, away from business-as-usual and towards...
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Cost of living crisis - fossil fuels are costing the earth
In a rich country like the UK, people should not have to choose between warm homes and decent food. But with a combination of rising gas prices, a failure to insulate homes or build enough renewable...
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'An atlas of human suffering': the latest IPCC report
The scientists of the IPCC (the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) have just published their latest report, on the damage that climate breakdown is causing to humans and ecosystems. They...
View ArticleTake action: UK faces crucial choice on energy policy
Boris Johnson is set to make a statement on the UK's energy policy soon. With the war on Ukraine and prices rocketing, households who were already struggling with the cost of living crisis face further...
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Truss and Sunak face off on climate and energy, in a race to the bottom
The UK desperately needs cheap, clean energy, home insulation and real leadership on the climate and cost of living crises. But based on the showing of the two candidates to lead our country, we won't...
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COP27 fails on cutting emissions, offers help to pay for loss and damage that...
The main headline from COP27: after twenty-seven years of climate negotiations, progress on actually cutting emissions is as painfully slow as ever. Meanwhile the chance of staying under 1.5C of...
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Facts about fossil fuels - ahead of Shell's AGM
This Tuesday, it's Shell's AGM in London. If you can, do come and join the protest:When: 23 May, from 9amWhere: ExCel London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XLThey will be...
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Climate justice, refugees and human rights
We're joining a protest at the Home Office this Saturday 4th November, following Suella Braverman's inflammatory speech at the Conservative Party Conference where she suggested that the UK was facing a...
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