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…
What’s gone wrong for offshore wind in the UK?
There are various responses to disaster. Last week, the government announced the UK contracts for difference auction which would contract any offshore wind production, equivalent to a third of the…
Four insurers rule out providing cover for the West Cumbria Coal Mine
Four insurance firms have given guarantees that they will not provide cover for the planned West Cumbria Coal Mine. AEGIS Managing Agency, Argenta Syndicate Management, Hannover Re and Talanx have…
Taxes on UK’s biggest polluters could have raised £23bn over the last year
A new report has found that fairer taxes in the UK's biggest polluters could have raised up to £23bn last year. The report, published by Oxfam, found that more rigorous…