Tag archives for environment
A tale of two parties: Learning the environmental lessons from the 2010 coalition
Image credit: Number 10, Creative Commons It’s May 2010. Good Times by Roll Deep is charting number one, a track about keeping the party going and living your best life.…
The EU is subsidising Ryanair’s carbon emissions
Image credit: Bart Busschots, Creative Commons As the number of people flying regularly continues to rise, CO2 emissions from aviation have soared, rising by in the last five years in…
Only 5% of UK universities are taking investment in renewables seriously
Image credit: Creative Commons, Tom Corser People & Planet has revealed the universities leading the UK higher education sector in investment in renewable energy. The student activist network has published…
Facing up to the reality of green tech production
Image credit: Enough Project, Creative Commons Climate crisis is getting a lot of coverage. We have to be thankful that people are at last paying attention. Advocacy for renewable energy…
No more fossil fuel infrastructure can be built if we’re to meet the 1.5 degree target
Image credit: Larry D Moore, Creative Commons The Paris Agreement commits the world’s governments to ensuring that global temperatures don’t rise by more than two degrees above pre-industrial levels. The…
Environment-trashing “game” meat has no place in England’s food strategy
Image credit: Gary Noon, Creative Commons Sometimes you see media campaigns and policy stances so ill-conceived, so clearly counterproductive, that you have to wonder what the person who came up…
The government is letting the fashion industry trash our planet
The proposals from Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee to begin to address the thoroughly outsized contribution of the fashion industry to the trashing of our planet were modest. If they could…
Never trust a COP: How the left should respond to COP26
Image credit: COP Paris, Creative Commons The UK will host COP26, the 26th round of the United Nations Climate Change Conferences, in November 2020. Jeremy Hunt is pleased. Buzzfeed reported…
Floating cities and dirty secrets: Environmental impact of luxury cruise ships
Image credit: AudaCity3371, Creative Commons Floating cities seem like science fiction, and have been mentioned by some as one way humanity could in future cope with a rapidly growing global…
Power beyond borders: Organising for climate justice
Image credit: Neil Cummings, Creative Commons Since 2012 Reclaim the Power (RtP), a network of people, has been taking action for social, environmental and economic justice, primarily in the UK.…