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’.
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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.”
Who exactly are Net Zero Watch and why should we be worried about climate science deniers’ rebrand
As the COP26 summit kicks off, members of a new group, called Net Zero Watch (NZW), have been featuring on GB News and TalkRadio, decrying what they say is ‘climate hysteria’.
COP26: Alok Sharma slammed for hypocritical stance on Cambo oilfield as summit kicks off
“Alok Sharma unable to defend the indefensible – he was doing well on #Marr until he had to answer why his Government is going ahead with a new oil field at Cambo. First rule of diplomacy is to #WalkYourTalk – shamefully the UK isn’t.”
Why Rishi Sunak’s budget failed on climate change
Faced with a choice of setting out an ambitiously green budget, on the eve of a global climate summit that the government will be hosting, Rishi Sunak opted for business as usual.
Wera Hobhouse MP: Local government should be at the heart of the net zero transition
‘To effect the change we so urgently need, local authorities must embed zero carbon approaches to managing, funding, procuring, commissioning and delivering services but they need the sufficient resources to do this.’
Sunak slammed for cutting taxes on domestic flights days before COP26
‘Yes, you heard that right – @RishiSunak is making flights cheaper. Good thing there’s no #ClimateEmergency.’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, October 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
EXCLUSIVE: Over half of voters think COP26 summit won’t make a positive difference to climate change
The poll found that 51% of UK adults think that the COP26 summit will not make a positive difference to climate change
Jenny Jones: Sewage and the Conservatives’ lack of clear blue water
Daily maps of the sewage dumping, along with graphic pictures of murky coastal waters have illustrated the scale of it (400,000 incidents in the last year alone).