Wera Hobhouse MP: Tory fossil fuel funding is delaying an end date for fossil fuels
‘As long as we have a Government dominated by vested interests, the UK will make no progress on climate action.’
Climate Change
‘Global warming is not a problem’ says board member of Net Zero Watch which is backed by Tory MPs
Lord Lawson claims that more CO2 emissions have only served to “warm the planet slightly”
How climate sceptic groups are linked to attempts to take control of the National Trust
The National Trust has a range of policies designed to reduce carbon emissions. These could come under threat.
Chair of the Climate Change Committee ‘letting Northern Ireland go rogue’ on climate commitments, say campaigners
‘Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK and Ireland without dedicated climate legislation’
Mike Buckley: How the Labour Party can lead on climate change
‘Labour and other opposition parties should call out Government hypocrisy and double standards but should be wary of making it a partisan issue.’
‘Staggering Hypocrisy’: Boris Johnson slammed for ‘taking private jet after COP26 to meet climate sceptic pal’
‘The mask slips’.
“Even the best outcome at COP26 isn’t going to get us everything we need”
“We and civil society organisations will be championing the voices of representatives from the Global South, but it remains to be seen whether we actually see this shift that we’ve been pushing for for such a long time at this Cop.”
Natalie Bennett: Young people must be given not just a voice, but power, at COP26
‘Seventy-eight-year-old Joe Biden and 59-year-old Boris Johnson are typical at the COP26 climate talks, where the average age of participants is over 60’
Campaigners seize on Boris Johnson’s opening day coal comments at COP26
‘A new coal mine in Cumbria would result in approximately an additional 9 million tonnes of carbon emissions being released every year to 2049 and so is unacceptable’.
Boris Johnson’s climate finance announcement “nowhere near enough”
“Raiding the existing aid budget and cutting off other vital lines of support for the global south is not good enough.”