Blog: Climate

The Northamptonshire constituency of Corby may seem a world away from your home and energy bills, but make no mistake, the two are linked.

Our #energygate investigation has revealed the extreme lengths some Tory politicians will go to push their anti-green agenda, including manipulating the Corby by-election.

Yesterday, I joined 249 other people from green businesses, development charities, trades associations, green groups and the Women's Institute outside the Treasury. We'd come to tell the government that the green economy is working.

On a windy night in September, whilst most people were sleeping, wind power reached a record of 64.2% of Spain’s electricity demand.

When you’re as far north as we are right now, communications come to you like telegrams; they’re few and far between, and only the most important make it through. So when Steve, the radio operator on board the Arctic Sunrise, hand-delivered me a message today, I knew it was going to be good. “Two million people have now signed the petition to protect the Arctic!”