Environment

Plastic recycling is failing – How the world must respond

— Recycling is not enough to address the world’s plastic waste crisis. A more sustainable approach requires reducing production, reusing existing plastic, and finding alternatives.

UK Politics

Helicopter rides and electoral annihilation: Rishi Sunak’s expensive commute

— Rishi Sunak’s use of a taxpayer-funded helicopter to Southampton on Tuesday, costing around £6,000 to the taxpayers, has been criticised as wasteful and environmentally damaging. Number 10 defends it as necessary for effective time management.

Environment

Extinction Rebellion gave it ‘the Big One’ with a four-day peaceful protest – now what?

— Extinction Rebellion has eschewed disruptive protest in the pursuit of ‘building relationships’.

Stats

Five most prepared countries for the green tech transition

— The US, Sweden, Singapore, Switzerland, and the Netherlands are the top five prepared countries to use frontier technologies, while Guinea, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo are the least prepared.

OPINION

Why strike action is climate action

— Striking pushes against the core capitalist dynamics also responsible for global warming.

Environment

British public demands prison sentences for water company CEOs who pollute our waters

— A recent poll shows that 60% of British respondents believe that chief executives of water companies should receive prison sentences if they are found responsible for serious incidents of water pollution.

Environment

When the Daily Mail sees lawyers standing up for the environment, they get mad

— Jo Maugham, Director of the Good Law Project, is leading the way in advocating for a future free from fossil fuel interests. Along with 120 other legal professionals, he has signed a Declaration of Conscience to take a stand against representing organizations with ties to the fossil fuel industry.

Climate Change

IPCC report: Climate solutions exist, but humanity has to break from the status quo and embrace innovation

— The IPCC report discusses changes ahead and describes how existing solutions can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help people adjust to impacts of climate change that can’t be avoided.

Environment

The Government is still “considering” how to improve its Net Zero Strategy with just a month to go

— The High Court has ordered Ministers to update their plan and demonstrate how policies will achieve Net Zero climate targets by March 2023. Despite this, the Government is only “considering the next steps”.

Environment

The Public Trust Doctrine: An ancient legal principle which could protect our environment now and for future generations

— Many of our vital environmental laws and protections are being put at risk by the long and dark shadow of Brexit. It beggars belief that this comes at a time when the Government should be urgently strengthening and expediting our response to the ongoing climate emergency.

Climate Change

Labour accepted £12,000 from major polluter Drax

— Labour has accepted £12,000 from the UK’s largest carbon emitter, major polluter Drax. Why?

Climate Change

Exxon scientists accurately forecast climate change back in the 1970s – What if we had listened to them and acted then?

— A climate expert imagines how different things could have been if we took global warming seriously decades earlier.

Climate Change

Tory-linked think tank appoints ‘brazen’ climate denier as director

— Tory-linked think tank appoints the author of books which claim that environmentalism is part of a “totalitarian” plan to control the public and human-made climate change is a “myth”.

TODAY+

Rainforest offset credits likely to be “phantom credits”

— More than 90% of the world’s leading carbon offsets provider’s rainforest offset credits are likely to be “phantom credits” and do not represent genuine carbon reductions.

COMMENT

Oyster farm under threat from sewage dumping

— Water companies dumping sewage poses a serious threat to a 300-year-old oyster family business and to marine life if they are allowed to continue.

COMMENT

Britain is failing the Aid and Reconstruction Complex

— What if a country has made such a series of catastrophic decisions that it cannot afford to help people in other parts of the world or protect the planet anymore?