The UK Government's promises at COP26 seem empty when viewed in context of its ongoing financial support for the oil and gas industry. Increasingly, this is driving climate campaigners to...
The warming of the Arctic’s permafrost will have serious implications for global emissions, yet why is the issue so poorly represented in the COP26 process? Green Peer Jenny Jones outline...
Co-leader Cllr Carla Denyer and Cllr Lily Fitzgibbon review the city’s progress on climate action, a reflection that conjures ‘a mixture of pride and frustration’ for the pair.
Joseph Eastoe considers the tests GreensCAN set for the summit, finding that, in most cases, it failed to introduce meaningful change. We should be wary, he notes, in believing that event...
There is no need for a moderate flank of Insulate Britain, says Sarah Lunnon, former Green Councillor for Gloucestershire County, as the looming effects of the climate crisis are far from...
It is optimistic, but unlikely, that COP26 will truly limit global warming to 1.8 degrees, says Green peer Jenny Jones. The result could be that rising sea levels render Sizewell C a ‘tox...
The summit was billed as the COP where the issue of climate finance would finally be resolved. In reality, Finance and Economy spokesperson MEP Molly Scott Cato writes, it was a ‘private ...
The Green Party is calling on the UK Government to take urgent climate action in the wake of the failure of negotiations at COP26. The nation still holds the presidency for a further year...
The summit’s final agreement has failed to fulfil the Green Party’s five key climate tests. However, the party maintains that there is still hope to save the summit’s legacy.
As governments work on a second draft agreement for COP26, Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer expresses concern it is unlikely to achieve key climate targets
Isabella Goldstein, Campaign Manager at the Zero Carbon Campaign explains why stronger policy commitments on carbon pricing are essential – with the mechanism already endorsed by global l...
The Green Party has responded to a recent report by Climate Action Tracker, which predicts a 2.4C temperature rise by the end of this century, stating that global leaders are ‘asleep at t...
Bringing together 25,000 people, COP26 is facilitating new conversations, alliances, and information. John Kidder, a Candian delegate of the Global Greens, reflects on the potential the s...
Amelia Womack, Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, reflects on COP26’s Gender day. Despite being on the front line of the climate crisis, women are outnumbered within t...
Responding to Boris Johnson’s Climate Finance package, which pledges only £1 billion per year in reparations, the Greens have labelled the Prime Minister’s approach as ‘misguided’ and ‘no...
Molly Scott Cato passes judgement on the scheme proposed at COP26, labelling it as an opportunity in which financiers will be ‘marking their own homework’.
Green World spoke to the activists and Greens walking to COP26, some travelling as much as 1200 miles on foot to reach the summit in Glasgow. The walkers include a 10ft polar bear called ...
COP26 is a critical moment in human history, says Tina Rothery and Rupert Read of GreensCAN. The summit holds the potential to avert the climate crisis, but this can only occur if signifi...
The ‘green growth’ that Boris Johnson spoke of at the UN General Assembly is a fallacy, says Chris Nash. If we are to avert the climate emergency, we must build a society based on the pri...
At the UN General Assembly, both the US and China outlined significant climate policies. The Green Party is urging the UK Government to take more meaningful action to tackle the climate c...
