Governments need to break with fossil fuel addiction to tackle the climate crisis
The brutal truth as we reflect on COP28 is that we are far from where we need to be to prevent catastrophic climate change
Climate Change
Daily Mail events firm is given £500k government contract to run UK COP28 events
Many are already questioning the government’s commitment to tackling climate change, after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rowed back on a number of pledges to tackle the climate emergency in a bid to appease his right-wing Tory base.
We need to get real about the risks and possibilities of self-driving cars
‘If you put self-driving into the equation, you potentially massively increase the climate impacts.’
‘Government has turned its back on working people’: Trade unions react to King’s speech
“gimmicks, division, and more of the same.”
Tory Minister admits new oil and gas plan will not bring down energy bills
“It wouldn’t necessarily bring energy bills down, that’s not what we’re saying”,
Rishi Sunak’s watering down of net zero policies doesn’t give him the poll bounce right-wing press had hoped
The Sun and others praised the Prime Minister for his policies, claiming that ‘Rishi Sunak’s delay on petrol car ban gives him eight point surge in polls’.
Therese Coffey mocked after blaming wrong kind of rain for Storm Babet floods
“What next from the Tory excuse machine”
Outrage after Greta Thunberg arrested at London oil summit protest
Hundreds of protesters gathered at a five-star hotel in London, the InterContinental on Park Lane, the venue for the Energy Intelligence Forum (EIF), which brings together fossil fuel executives and government ministers.
‘Embarrassingly wrong’ Tufton Street Net Zero report gets extensive coverage in right-wing press
The claims contained in the report were fact checked by a number of climate academics and journalists who explained why they were wrong.
Politicians, campaigners and unions react to approval of Rosebank oil field
“The greatest act of environmental vandalism in my lifetime”