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Climate Change

Right-Wing Media Watch – Murdoch media goes all out attacking environmentalists

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 February, 2025

The return of Trump – a notorious climate change sceptic – seems to have emboldened the Murdoch media’s climate attack dogs.

News

Activists disrupt Swan Lake performance to protest Sadler’s Well’s’ ties with Barclays Bank

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
1 February, 2025

“It’s time Sadler’s Wells took a stand against the oily financiers set on destroying everything we love, all to line their pockets.”

Housing policy UK
Opinion

Labour’s next challenge: delivering warm, climate resilient, and decent homes

Eloise Sacares
30 January, 2025

To ensure warm, climate resilient and decent homes for all, Labour must start by setting out the funding necessary to deliver the warm homes pledge

News

Rosebank Oil Field and Jackdaw gas approvals ruled ‘unlawful’ in landmark court ruling

Olivia Barber
30 January, 2025

‘The age of governments approving new drilling sites by ignoring their climate impacts is over’

A photo of people protesting against climate activists' long jail sentences outside the Royal Courts of Justice
News

16 Just Stop Oil activists to appeal ‘excessive’ jail sentences for peaceful protests

Olivia Barber
29 January, 2025

‘These excessive sentences are designed to put people off protesting’

A photo of Greenpeace activists protesting at the World Economic Forum annual summit in Davos, Switzerland
News

Greenpeace protestors urge leaders at World Economic Forum to tax the super-rich

Olivia Barber
22 January, 2025

Activists blocked delegates arriving at Davos Lago heliport in private jets

Right-Wing Watch

Are climate politics about to go into reverse?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
18 January, 2025

The rise of climate-sceptic populist figures both in the UK and abroad, puts climate action at risk of being side-lined in favour of regressive, anti-environmental politics that could undo years of hard-fought progress.

A photo of Reform leader Nigel Farage speaking at Heartland Institute's UK launch in London back in December
News

What is the Heartland Institute? Inside the climate denial group Nigel Farage has links to

Olivia Barber
16 January, 2025

Nigel Farage and Liz Truss were at the UK launch of a US-based climate change denying lobbying group in December.

A photo of Nigel Farage wearing a headset as he appears on LBC Radio
News

Nigel Farage and Liz Truss attend launch of climate denial group

Basit Mahmood
15 January, 2025

The Heartland Institute is a US based lobby group which has previously made extreme statements sceptical of climate change.

Clothing waste
News

Plastics industry used disinformation to lobby against ban on ‘forever chemicals’

Olivia Barber
14 January, 2025

The estimated cost of cleaning up ‘forever chemical’ pollution in the UK and Europe will be £1.6 trillion over 20 years

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