Rosebank oil field ‘totally incompatible’ with COP commitments, Scottish Greens say
Licensing the Rosebank oil field is 'totally incompatible' with COP commitments, the Scottish Greens have said. This week at the COP28 climate summit, the UK joined countries around the world…
Has Rachel Reeves misread Elinor Ostrom’s contribution to green economics?
Rachel Reeves, assuming that Labour win the next General Election as current opinion polls indicate, is likely to be Keir Starmer’s Chancellor of the Exchequer. Britain’s finances are in a…
80 civil society groups demand government acts on climate-linked migration and displacement
A coalition of 80 civil society groups specialising in climate and migration have called on the leaders of political parties in the UK to take act on migration and displacement…
Wales Green Party calls for action on climate adaptation
The Wales Green Party has issued a call for action on climate adaptation. This follows a motion passed by Wales Green Party members at their autumn conference taking place in…
Tories are ‘printing fossil fuel licenses as fast as covid contracts for dodgy donors’, Mark Ruskell MSP tells Scottish Green Party conference
Scottish Green Party MSP Mark Ruskell has accused the Tory government in Westminster of "printing off oil and gas licences as fast as covid contracts for dodgy donors". He made…
Environmental protection laws have been bypassed in Maldives, Human Rights Watch claims
The government of the Maldives has ignored or undermined environmental protection laws in its land reclamation projects, Human Rights Watch has claimed. The NGO has said that there is now…
Storm Babet: Major flooding a result of climate change and privatisation, Green Party says
The major flooding experienced across the UK from Storm Babet are a result of the climate crisis and privatisation, the Green Party has said. The party's co-leader Adrian Ramsay made…
Greens of Colour chair tells Green Party conference colonialism has been the driver of climate crisis
Members of the Green Party of England and Wales are meeting in Brighton this weekend for their autumn conference. At the event, one of the keynote speeches was given by…
102nd UK university divests from fossil fuels
Plymouth Marjon University has become the 102nd university in the UK to divest from fossil fuels. The university updated its ethical investment policy to exclude all fossil fuel investments from…
Greens slam Rishi Sunak’s climate u-turns
The prime minister Rishi Sunak has announced a major watering down of the government's environmental policies. Sunak confirmed that the government would be pushing back the ban on new petrol…