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Climate change

What does Brexit mean for farming, fishing and climate change?

The UK is leaving the EU. But what does this mean for environmental laws and standards? How are fishing, farming and climate change going to be handled from now on?…

by Helle Abelvik-Lawson January 31, 2020

Climate change

On trial for challenging BP’s lust for oil in an age of climate change

Greenpeace is being put on trial for stopping a BP rig drilling for new oil wells. The penalties may be high, but this attempt to gag and bully those who…

by Jamie Woolley January 30, 2020

Climate change

Oil industry giants like BP will push the planet’s climate way past 1.5ºC of global heating

Oil companies like BP are spending billions drilling for oil that, if burned, will heat the planet by way more than the "safe" 1.5ºC target agreed at the 2015 Paris…

by Helle Abelvik-Lawson January 27, 2020

Climate change

Supermarkets pushing chicken sales despite links to climate change

People often opt for chicken over beef for environmental reasons. But new Greenpeace research shows that the chicken sold in the UK is a major driver of deforestation, and supermarkets…

by Alia Al Ghussain January 21, 2020

Climate change

Factcheck: Australia’s unprecedented fires are down to climate change, not arson

A lot of information has been circulating online that puts all the blame for Australia's unprecedented fires on arson or green policies – anything other than climate change. Spreading the…

by Helle Abelvik-Lawson January 20, 2020

Climate change

3 reasons why it’s right to call BP a climate change criminal

The term “climate criminal” shouldn’t be used lightly. However, oil companies continue with business-as-usual, even though people all around the world are suffering from the impacts of climate change. Here…

by Philip Evans January 10, 2020

Climate change

Catastrophic Australia fires are the latest climate change horror – here are the facts

Apocalyptic scenes from Australia have shown the devastation being caused by the raging fires. Lives have been lost and thousands forced to flee their homes as millions of hectares have…

by Helle Abelvik-Lawson January 7, 2020

Climate change

4 weird UK weather events linked to the climate emergency in 2019

It made headlines. It broke records. It *finally* got linked with climate change. Here’s a look back at some of the wild weather we braved in 2019.

by Florence Stuart-Leach, Helle Abelvik-Lawson December 24, 2019

Climate change

The conclusion from COP25: the politics is as polluted as the planet

As COP25 came to a close, the clamour for a solution to the climate emergency grew louder than ever. But the international talks are at risk of stalling as corporate…

by Helle Abelvik-Lawson December 20, 2019

Thousands of chickens crowded together in an industrial shed

Climate change

Eating chicken is better for the environment than eating beef. But that doesn’t mean it’s good.

Eating chicken has a lower climate impact than eating beef. But rearing chickens on a large scale still causes some serious environmental problems.

by Greenpeace UK December 20, 2019