“In the long term, retrofitting homes and switching them to renewables will cost less than not doing it and letting London and the rest of the country face the toll of the climate emergen...
“This plan for zero-carbon steel should sit at the heart of a green UK industrial strategy.” Cllr Jonathan Essex makes the case for a just transition to zero-carbon steel for the UK’s con...
"Councils, even parish councils and community bodies, if they are smart enough, can make a start while Boris Johnson dithers." Robert Lindsay, Green Councillor for Babergh District Counci...
“We believe Sheffield should concentrate less on growing its geography; and instead create more locally and neighbourhood-based economic, social and cultural networks.” Cllr Douglas Johns...
“It is easy for local politicians to pitch this as a battle between well-to-do outsiders and downtrodden West Cumbrians.” Jill Perry of Allerdale and Copeland Green Party details the prog...
Following the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons coming into effect on 22 January, Kate Hudson, General Secretary for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, details what this ban...
Following the Prime Minister’s speech yesterday (6 October), in which he declared the UK Government’s intention to invest £160 million in offshore wind, the Green Party co-leader Jonathan...
“The downside of the Green Homes announcement? It is not nearly enough.” Green Peer Natalie Bennett applauds Chancellor Rishi Sunak for releasing £2 billion of funding for home retrofitti...
“The UK is facing its biggest economic shock for a generation. Meanwhile, the global crisis of climate change is accelerating. We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to address these ur...
With just six years left in its ‘carbon budget’, the East of England is running out of time to take drastic climate action. Catherine Rowett, MEP for the East of England, has published a ...
MEPs voted to support the European Commission’s Green Deal for Europe this week, with 482 votes in favour against 136 against and 95 abstentions, a development welcomed by Green MEPs, tho...
The Green Party’s ambitious Green New Deal aims to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2030, pledging to do so by replacing all fossil fuels with renewable energy. Placing the wind energ...
After repeated pressure from the Greens, the European Investment Bank has announced a new energy policy which will divest from fossil fuel projects and accelerate progress towards climate...
After years of fervent activism in communities up and down the country, the government has finally announced a moratorium on the hydraulic fracturing of shale gas. But can we really celeb...
“This is one campaign with a clear end goal that can only be achieved if we work together.”
For 1,000 days, anti-fracking activists have campaigned at Preston New Road in Lancashire, us...
A report from the National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed that progress in fracking has been much slower than the government initially expected. Having cost the taxpayer more than £32 mi...
Anti-fracking campaigners have begun to return to Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site near Lancashire as the oil and gas exploration company announced it would be resuming drilling at the s...
“We’re now old, but we inherited a healthy and clean environment from our fathers and it’s our duty to give our children a clean and healthy environment as well.” Alan Story reports on th...
The UK already has more coal than it needs and is supposed to be phasing out the fuel by 2025 – but more open-cast mines are being planned in the North East, where they will not only blig...
The Surround Springfields protest on 27 April will see anti-nuclear protesters gathering at the Lancashire nuclear site for a day of action. Stop New Nuclear’s Chris Bluemel explores the ...
