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Building a secure renewable energy system to meet UK climate targets after the collapse of Wylfa and Moorside nuclear power plants

When governments and companies threaten the natural world – Greenpeace supporters are there to confront them, and have been for 50 years.

  For the report with full references (endnotes), please download the PDF. Report Summary ● For its size, the UK has the worst heat pump sales record and the second worst installation record in Europe ● Fourteen per cent of UK climate emissions come from homes, mostly dirty gas…

Greenpeace UK's Executive Director John Sauven is handing over the baton to interim Executive Director Pat Venditti

The return of Greenpeace UK and Everyday Plastic's The Big Plastic Count represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the public to influence the UN Global Plastics Treaty.

Nationwide, across all 650 parliamentary constituencies, 80,000 participants have already signed up for The Big Plastic Count 2024, including over 10,000 school classes. They have committed to counting a week’s plastic waste as part of the UK’s largest waste survey starting next week.

To win the war on plastic, Environment Secretary Michael Gove should make sure the upcoming Environment Bill sets targets in law to radically reduce the amount of plastic we make and use.

Step onto a British beach and you might notice a warning sign saying there's sewage in the water. After years of deregulation and budget cuts for environmental agencies, our waters are at crisis point. But sewage is just one part of a much bigger problem.

A Greenpeace investigation has revealed that supertrawlers spent 2963 hours fishing in UK Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in 2019, the equivalent of 123 days.

CAMPAIGNERS have installed a 12-ft oil-splattered statue of a dithering Boris Johnson at Downing Street today, urging him to end the UK’s reliance on oil, to protect consumers, workers and the climate.

After revealing that supertrawlers spent 5590 hours fishing in UK offshore protected areas in the first half of 2020 [1], a new Greenpeace analysis has found that only 5 of the UK’s 73 offshore protected areas ‘may be’ progressing towards conservation targets.

After months of learning and debate, the ‘citizens’ assembly’ on climate change has said how the UK should play its part to tackle the problem. The results might come as a surprise.

Greenpeace International has challenged a UK Royal Research Vessel in peaceful protest as it returned to Costa Rica from a 7-week long expedition to areas of the Pacific Ocean targeted for deep sea mining. One Greenpeace activist scaled the side of the vessel to unfurl a banner…

Greenpeace, fishers, anglers, charter skippers and fishing businesses have come together to declare a state of emergency in the English Channel and Southern North Sea.

Coalition of civil society groups call for greater action on fuel poverty and to cut fossil fuels in upcoming Energy Independence Plan 39 organisations spanning fuel poverty, social justice and environmental campaigns have today [15.03.2022] written to the government calling for greater support…