Energy

Reducing CO2 emissions from energy generation is key to tackling climate change. Over the coming years, the UK's ageging coal, gas and nuclear power stations will need replacing and we have to decide what comes next. Do we want a clean energy future and a thriving green economy or do we rebuild the expensive, polluting energy dinosaurs?

We're campaigning for a clean energy future. A stronger green economy with new jobs and growth. Clean, efficient renewable energy and to end CO2 emissions from electricity generation.

Campaign updates

Telling oil companies the truth

Today, the Greenland Bureau of Mineral and Petroleum invited the world’s biggest oil companies to a meeting in Copenhagen that could be of extreme importance...
Posted by Jon Burgwald - 1 December, 2011 - 16:01 -

Osborne's plan for the UK: pollute our way to growth

George Osborne launched an assault on green measures in his Autumn Statement that reads as if it were written by the UK’s biggest polluters. Tax breaks for...
Posted by petespeller - 1 December, 2011 - 11:19 -

Ministry blocks anti-tar sands law, so we block ministry's front door

Right now, 50 activists are blockading the Department for Transport with two immobilised cars parked in front of the entrance. Why? Because our government is...
Posted by jamie - 28 November, 2011 - 12:13
Pensioners action on winter fuel payment

National Pensioners Convention and Greenpeace highlight excess winter deaths

Contrary to what you might hear in the media, younger and older people have a lot of shared concerns – not least of which is how society should best manage its...
Posted by Dot Gibson - 22 November, 2011 - 12:45 -
fighting the freeze action outside parliament 2011

Freezing to death: action highlights excess winter fuel deaths

This morning, outside of the Houses of Parliament, activists from both Greenpeace and the National Pensioners Convention undertook the first of what I hope...
Posted by John Sauven - 22 November, 2011 - 12:45 -
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