Last year, the COVID-19 lockdowns saw road traffic in the UK fall by over 70%, and industrial emissions from China between February to March 2020 were reduced by 18%, a cut of 250 million tons. The cleaner air quality that resulted from less…

Ensuring energy sustainability in the long term is one issue among many that has been utterly  obscured by the combination of COVID and Brexit. Time that could have gone into a debate over how Britain should be powered has instead…

A High Court judge has granted a possession order to evict anti-HS2 campaigners from the Euston tunnel, after a month-long protest against the high-speed rail network and its destruction of woodland. News of the ruling comes as the fifth of…

To achieve net-zero we need global trade to be smaller, shorter, and slower. To do this, we need to reconsider our dependence on materials and products sourced from around the world. As Brexit negotiations continue and the UK makes trade…

Boris Johnson’s government wants to create a “green industrial revolution” and the first moves are already being made – the search for a nuclear fusion power plant site was launched last week. The government is planning to build the new power station by 2040,…

12 December 2020. Save the date. It could be the most crucial in the planet’s history… On that day, the UK will host a virtual UN Climate Summit. It’s already been dubbed “the sprint to Glasgow”, as organisers seek to…

As coronavirus began its sweep across the world there was a call of urgency to keep people safe and precautions were put in place to keep entire populations in their homes, away from work, education and loved ones. Concerns over…

Recently, Extinction Rebellion (XR) has resurfaced in the news as they resume acts of non-violent civil disobedience activism. Seventy-seven people were arrested in the wake of their blockades of national and regional newspaper printing presses earlier this month. While effective…

“Rank hypocrisy” says environmentalist group Global Witness. “Absurd” says Greta Thunberg. “Unacceptable” says the British parliament’s environmental audit committee. “The opposite of sustainable development” says Ban Ki Moon, former Secretary-General of the United Nations. “Transformational for […] economic and social…

Extinction Rebellion’s (XR) latest escapade in blocking Rupert Murdoch owned print sites, responsible for the distribution of major newspapers including The Sun, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, and The London Evening Standard, is yet another example that illustrates how counterproductive…