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Climate Change

Here’s how the climate change movement can win: go after the villains

Tim Root
22 October, 2018

The climate movement has to learn from previous struggles if we’re to stand a chance of winning. It’s time to target our anger – and build hope.

To tackle climate change, we need to reforest the UK

Kat Kramer
17 October, 2018

The IPCC report on climate change shows we need to think radically about how to deal with climate change in Britain, writes Dr Kat Kramer.

Nuclear

To meet our climate targets, we need to ramp up nuclear energy in the UK

Sue Ferns
11 October, 2018

Nuclear and renewables must be seen as complementary options in a balanced energy policy – not alternatives, argues the Prospect union’s Sue Ferns

Tories’ £9bn fuel duty splurge will leave UK in breach of environmental law, say campaigners

Josiah Mortimer
3 October, 2018

While it may feel like an easy win for the Tories, this £8bn fossil fuel giveaway will hit Phillip Hammond’s coffers hard – and make the public cough harder.

BBC New Broadcasting House

It started out with a tweet: How we got the BBC to change its policy on ‘debating’ climate change

Rupert Read
13 September, 2018

Rupert Read on how saying ‘no’ to an interview kicked off a series of events that led to a welcome u-turn from the BBC.

How tackling climate change could actually rescue our economy

Molly Scott Cato
13 September, 2018

Taking action to save our climate could yield yield huge economic gains. But the forces of business-as-usual are stacked against us.

Sorry, BBC: I will no longer debate climate-change deniers

Rupert Read
3 August, 2018

The day the charade of ‘balance’ had to stop.

To win, the climate movement needs to get tough on the big polluters

Tim Root
26 June, 2018

There can be no such thing as ‘business as usual’ when it comes to climate change.

The Bank of England risks fuelling climate change. Here’s how it can change

Joana Ramiro
15 May, 2018

A report launching in Parliament gives vital advice on how to “hardwire” Britain’s central bank to the environmental upheavals to come.

Revealed: The revolving door between Westminster and the fossil fuel industry

Molly Scott Cato
8 May, 2018

Public interest is at risk when successive officials and elected representatives leave the corridors of power to join the fossil fuel lobby. Molly Scott Cato writes.

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