Environment

How Lake Chad fuelled the ecofeminist movement

“This is why I advocate for the restoration of Lake Chad as one of the solutions that will end violence against women and girls – because women’s right are environmental rights.” Nigerian climate activist Oladosu Adenike explains how her journey to ecofeminism started at Lake Chad.

Help defend Dewley Hill from open-cast coal mines

Rakesh Prashara calls on Greens to help prevent Newcastle mines being given planning permission

Government action on EfW plants too little, too late

Jenny Jones outlines the urgency of acting against environmental damage caused by EfW plants

How Extinction Rebellion is saving British oaks

Jack Francklin talks to James Murray-White about founding Extinction Rebellion Rewilding

Greens condemn over-reporting of climate adaptation finance by developed nations

Molly Scott Cato calls for justice for developing nations receiving little climate mitigation funding

The right direction of travel

Kensington and Chelsea Greens celebrate the opening of the long overdue cycle lane on Kensington High Street.

‘Random and unconnected’ policies don’t hold up to the climate emergency

Molly Scott Cato responds to the PM’s 10-point plan to reach net zero by 2050

Are electric cars really greener than petrol or diesel cars?

Paul Morozzo from Greenpeace UK discusses the advantages and drawbacks

What does the future hold for anti-flight activist groups?

Anna Hughes considers the future of aviation through the lens of anti-flight activist groups

Environment Bill must not undermine environmental accountability

Ruth Chambers explains why proposed amendments to the Bill are a 'get out of jail free' card for the UK Government.

Ruth Chambers |

Democracy

UK Government

Environment

Politics

| Wed 28 Oct 2020

Wildlife Trusts calls for ‘Wildbelt’ as part of planning strategy

“Planning needs to identify where nature can be restored and recover, and then protect the places where this is happening.” Dr Sue Young, Head of Land Use Planning and Ecological Networks...

Dr Sue Young |

| Mon 5 Oct 2020

Better is possible: co-leaders’ speech at GPEW Conference 2020

Jonathan Bartley and Sian Berry speaking at GPEW Conference 2020

Live-streaming from the Everyman cinema in Broadgate, London, to Greens up and down the country through YouTube, Facebook and Zoom, co-leaders Sian Berry and Jonathan Bartley recognised h...

Green World |

| Fri 2 Oct 2020

Government going backwards on environmental protections

“This Government needs to do much more than deliver grand pledges to the UN.” Caroline Lucas responds to the pledge made by the UK Government at the UN’s biodiversity summit this week to ...

Caroline Lucas |

| Thu 1 Oct 2020

Brighton and Hove holds first Climate Assembly

This week saw the first meeting of the Brighton and Hove City Council’s new Climate Assembly, bringing 50 residents together to discuss transport and how the city can reach its climate go...

Amy Heley |

| Mon 28 Sep 2020

Book Review: Riders on the Storm

Molly Scott Cato reviews Riders on the Storm: The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being by Alastair McIntosh.

Molly Scott Cato |

| Mon 21 Sep 2020

Climate Assembly recommendations forge the way for progressive climate policy

“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...

Caroline Lucas |

| Thu 17 Sep 2020

World misses biodiversity goals, states UN report

Agreed in Japan in 2010, the 20 Aichi biodiversity goals aimed to halt the destruction of wildlife and ecosystems across the world. A new report by the UN has revealed that, 10 years on, ...

Lidia Creech |

| Wed 16 Sep 2020

No atrocities: Ecological reasons why black lives matter

Green Party member Rosey Thomas Palmer looks at how ecology must support equal rights for diverse communities and reformulate itself to support social justice aims as well as ecological o...

Rosey Thomas Palmer |

| Thu 10 Sep 2020

All words no action in Bristol

“I've said more times than I can remember that it cannot just be words. Declaring a climate emergency has to lead to real action.” In the latest instalment of our series What has Changed?...

Carla Denyer |

| Mon 24 Aug 2020

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