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Why Greenpeace blocked Barclays’ HQ

Earlier today 40 Greenpeace UK volunteers took over the main entrance to Barclays Bank’s corporate headquarters near Canary Wharf in London’s docklands. Six of them were climbers who scaled the entrance’s portico, where they recreated a tar sands oil leak dripping down from the bank’s logo. The team also… Read More

Aakash Naik - 19th July 2018

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In pictures: Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem leads the call to protect the Antarctic Ocean

Earlier this year Javier Bardem, an Antarctic Ambassador with Greenpeace, dived in a two-person submarine to the seabed of the Antarctic Ocean. On July 10, he met Environment Secretary Michael Gove and joined a panel discussion at Greenpeace’s immersive Antarctic 360° geo-dome to discuss the global campaign to create a… Read More

Angela Glienicke - 17th July 2018

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Holding Barclays to account

Toxic tar sands pipelines don’t just happen – they need funding, serious amounts of funding. And that money comes -in part at least- from banks, like Barclays… It’s kind of a simple story, really, big projects need big money – without finance from banks, it’s really tough for… Read More

Fiona Nicholls - 16th July 2018

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How Theresa May can stop Trump from trashing the environment

Ahead of Theresa May’s meeting with President Trump, the Prime Minister should focus her talks on using the Anglo-American ‘special-relationship’ to address climate change. We have already seen just how sceptical Trump is on environmental issues, pulling out of the Paris Agreement in June last year despite condemnation… Read More

John Sauven - 12th July 2018

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Six months in: the government’s environment report card

It’s now six months to the day since our government launched its 25-year Environment Plan: its strategy for cracking down on plastics, helping wildlife to thrive, protecting our environment post-Brexit and more. We were told the government’s plan would “improve the environment over a generation.” Green… Read More

Flo Stuart-Leach - 11th July 2018

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