Research and analysis

Briefing

Budget 2025: the Chancellor’s ‘Whack-a-Mole’ Budget

What the 2025 Budget means for energy bills and climate action, as seen by Greenpeace’s policy team.

Report

One year of Labour: what has Keir Starmer’s government achieved so far?

A first-year report card for the UK government.

Report

Power Shift: how the government can unlock lower bills

Report

Fare Britannia: a new approach to public transport ticketing for the UK

Briefing

Tackling the cost of living crisis and climate crisis together

Briefing

The National Wealth Fund: Building Green Prosperity

Briefing

Great British Energy

Report

Plastics, profits and power

Joint statement

MPs support a strong global target to cut plastic production

Global Plastics Treaty

Opportunities ahead for the Global Plastics Treaty

As the final round of negotiations at the Global Plastics Treaty approaches, there is an urgent need and a strong public mandate for the new government to significantly raise the UK’s leadership and ambition.

Uncovered

Unilever’s complicity in the plastics crisis and its power to solve it

This report exposes the gap between what Unilever says it will do, and what it actually does.

Big Plastic Count

How citizen science exposed a system incapable of tackling the plastic crisis

This report reveals the results of The Big Plastic Count. Almost a quarter of a million participants threw away 6.4 million pieces of packaging waste in just one week, yet only 12% is likely recycled. It provided overwhelming proof that the UK’s waste system cannot cope with the enormous amount of waste generated.

Trashed

How the UK is still dumping plastic waste on the rest of the world

The UK is a major contributor to the world’s plastic crisis, generating more plastic waste per person than any other country except the USA. Our recycling system is already overwhelmed by plastic waste. Now our waste is overwhelming other countries’ recycling systems too, causing serious harm to their citizens and environment, particularly in India, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Report

Sargasso: The Sea of Opportunity for Ocean Protection

The UK has a unique role to play in creating a Sargasso Sea Ocean Sanctuary under the Global Ocean Treaty agreed at the UN in 2023 given that the island of Bermuda, a UK Overseas Territory. This report details four clear recommendations to UK policy makers on the protection of the Sargasso Sea.

Briefing

Global Ocean Protection: Opportunities in the new Parliament

This briefing outlines the opportunities for the new government to become a global leader on biodiversity and ocean protection

Briefing

UK ratification of the Global Ocean Treaty

To demonstrate its commitment to global ocean protection, the government must ratify the Global Ocean Treaty into UK law before the general election. It must also develop proposals for ocean sanctuaries in the high seas, starting with the Sargasso Sea.

30×30

From Global Ocean Treaty to protection at sea

All at sea

How government inaction makes a mockery of UK marine protection

Greenpeace research shows that over 90% of UK MPAs are protected in name alone, with no meaningful, site-wide regulation on the most destructive fishing activity.