“Air pollution makes people vulnerable and susceptible to a whole host of health conditions – Covid-19 has delivered ‘the final coup de grâce’.” Transport Spokesperson Caroline Russell ex...
“The benefits of the Heathrow expansion would be felt by the privileged few who fly, yet the price paid by people across the world.” Anna Hughes, Director of Flight Free UK, considers the...
With the Climate Change Committee warning that the UK’s waste sector is seeing rising CO2 emissions due to the construction of new Energy-from-Waste plants, Green Peer Jenny Jones outline...
“The council is paying lip service to road safety and to promoting active travel, but at every critical junction they take the wrong turn.” Kensington Green Party activist Fabian Frenzel ...
Rakesh Prashara, Equality and Diversity Officer for the Newcastle Greens, explains why proposed open-cast coal mines must not be given the go-ahead by Newcastle City Council.
“While electric cars are undoubtedly less harmful than petrol cars, frankly that’s a pretty low bar.” Following the Prime Minister’s promise of investment in electric vehicles, Paul Moroz...
Kensington and Chelsea Greens welcome Kensington High Street’s new cycle lane but emphasise the importance of making it a permanent feature, allowing people to travel safely and reduce po...
Originally intended to cost £600 million, the cost of the Silvertown Road Tunnel is set to spiral to £2 billion. Green Party Transport Spokesperson and London Assembly Member Caroline Rus...
“It’s striking that Assembly members highlighted the values of fairness and the protection of nature as key principles for the path to net zero, along with more widespread information and...
A flagship transport scheme designed to increase physical distancing and reduce exposure to air pollution in the post-Covid era has come under fire from campaigners who claim it is counte...
Green Councillor for Willesborough Liz Wright criticises the government’s high-handed approach to politics, as it purchases 27 hectares of agricultural land in Ashford for the development...
“It is inexcusable to try and find out why the BAME community is adversely affected by Covid-19 and not consider the relationship between Covid-19 and air pollution.” Growing calls have b...
“Bailouts must not allow the aviation sector to return to business as usual after Covid-19 has been defeated”. An open letter coordinated by Stay Grounded calls for governments around the...
Diego Pedraza Lahoz, activist at campaign group Stay Grounded, explains the environmental and social arguments for the degrowth of the aviation industry.
“If we want to leave a healthy planet for future generations, we simply can't allow a third runway to go ahead.” Jenny Bates, campaigner at Friends of the Earth, explains the environmenta...
“Consulting the public on a proposal to charge private cars would have been the ideal opportunity to ask how people would tackle this public health crisis.” Sheffield’s clean air zone pro...
“It is time for the Swedish climate movement to level up the resistance and make clear that airport expansions are not supported by the people.” With arguments against airport expansion g...
The government’s Environmental Bill update, released on Tuesday (23 July), included a status report on the World Health Organisation (WHO) air quality guidelines. With the report concludi...
Campaigners have been protesting outside London’s City Hall today (20 June) against plans to press ahead with the Silvertown Tunnel project, a new road tunnel linking Greenwich to the nor...
CO2 emissions are the biggest contributor to global warming. NO2 emissions make our air toxic to breathe. But solutions to tackle pollution often neglect one while tackling the other. Cle...
