“If European shipping were a country, it would be the 8th largest polluter in the bloc, pumping 139 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere in 2018 alone.” Reflecting on her frequent jo...
With HS2 set to cost £88 billion and face delays of up to seven years, Green Party Co-leader Jonathan Bartley has described the high-speed railway as an ‘act of ecocide’. Speaking at a ca...
Ahead of the Green Party’s autumn conference this weekend (4-6 October) in Newport, Wales, the party has unveiled proposals to ban adverts for polluting cars and flights across the UK.
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“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...
Earlier this year, the UK became the first country in the G7 to commit to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. However, a new report from the Science and Technology Commit...
“In the years since the privatisation of the railways, the government has allowed for profits to become the guiding principle of policy.” Green Party Deputy Leader Amelia Womack takes the...
“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...
Magdalena Heuwieser, co-founder of the anti-aviation campaign network Stay Grounded, discusses seven strategies to reduce flying and build a just transport system.
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...
