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Boris Johnson is to announce the first new round of North Sea exploration licences since 2019, according to The Times. New licences will take, on average, 28 years to start production. The UK does not own its oil and gas, so fossil fuels extracted will be sold…
A joint civil society statement
Ecotricity has become the first UK energy supplier to call for a halt on deep sea mining – joining a growing coalition of big businesses including BMW, Renault and Google as well as 37 financial institutions, over…
Major survey of offshore oil and gas workers reveals that four in five would consider moving to work in another industry. Workers’ biggest concern for their future career path is job security, with respondents citing low morale and fears that their community will become a ‘wasteland region’. Platform, Friends of…
During Black History Month, we are celebrating the invaluable contribution of black people to the global movement for environmental justice. Here are three powerful acts of protest against environmental destruction by black activists.
Behind the dust kicked up by the prime minister’s speech lies a much uglier reality - the government has given up on fixing the country’s problems and is pandering to the usual vested interests.
6bn plastic bottles per year could be missed if Government waters down bottle scheme
Car-choked streets. Overfilled, delayed or even cancelled buses and trains. Farcical cycling infrastructure. Transport doesn't have to be like this. Here are 11 places around the world that got it sorted.
At least 148 supertankers carrying Russian oil and gas have left the country since Putin’s army invaded Ukraine two weeks ago, a Greenpeace analysis of shipping data has shown, and 69 of them were headed to Europe. The environmental group has launched today a beta version of its …
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 interests lobby for loopholes and play politicians like pawns.
A giant, virtual, female pig has appeared on top of Barclays’ Canary Wharf HQ, two Tesco stores in London and Liverpool, DEFRA and other locations [1] in a new augmented reality app created by artists to expose companies and the government’s links to industrial meat. Download images…
BP's new strategy drastically scales back the company's climate commitments from just a few years earlier
Action photos and video available here. Shell has attempted to silence Greenpeace International’s peaceful occupation of its oil and gas platform at sea by hitting the campaign group with an injunction late on Friday [FEB 3] – threatening up to two years’ jail time and fines [1]. But today,…
At least 50 million hectares of forest – an area twice the size of the UK – is set to have been destroyed for commodities during 10 years of corporate commitments to end deforestation, according to a new Greenpeace International report
Kingston, Jamaica, 28 July 2023 — The International Seabed Authority (ISA) negotiations end today with deep sea mining companies failing to get an immediate green light to start plundering the oceans. Opposition to deep sea mining within the ISA is mounting with more than 20 governments calling for…