Climate campaigners in Manchester protest East African Crude Oil Pipeline
On Friday 15 September, campaigners protested in Manchester against the construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). EACOP is currently under construction and is intended to transport crude…
Conservative Party Conference to be met with ‘Festival of resistance’
Campaigners are set to descend on Manchester in October for a 'festival of resistance'. Organised by the People's Assembly, there will be a series of events and protests to coincide…
Green Councillors welcome successful solar scheme
Green Party councillors have welcomed a successful solar scheme in Reading. Last year, Green councillors Dog Cresswell and Dave McElroy campaigned for Reading Council to run a group solar panel…
Rich nations paid less than five per cent of $53 billion East Africa needs to confront climate crisis
A new report published by Oxfam has revealed that rich nations paid Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan just $ in climate-related development finance in 2021. That contrasts to the…
Money Rebellion protesters disrupt AIG Women’s Open
Climate protesters disrupted the AIG Women's Open last Sunday by rushing onto the green on the 17th hole. The campaigners, from Money Rebellion, were protesting AIG's insurance of major fossil…
Are we moving towards the energy transition we need?
At moments of crisis, societies act. This is a truth so longstanding we can see it in the bible, prophetic warnings rarely move decadent societies, disaster does. Curtailment of Russian…
Why Scotland should be worried about the Energy Charter Treaty
As the climate and biodiversity emergencies deepen, the pressure is rightly increasing on governments to take urgent action to move away from coal, oil and gas. At the same time…
Divestment is not enough – why students at University of Surrey are campaigning to end fossil fuel recruitment on campus
Across the UK, students are acting against universities for being complicit in ecological crimes by maintaining the oil, gas, and mining recruitment pipeline. For as long as these industries have…
What is the Fossil Free Careers campaign?
The Fossil Free Careers campaign is seeking to get universities to stop allowing oil, gas and mining companies from recruiting students on university campuses. On episode 7 of #BrightGreenLive, we…
Carla Denyer destroys right wing argument that tackling the climate emergency and cost of living crisis is incompatible
On her first appearance on BBC Question Time, Green Party of England and Wales co-leader Carla Denyer dismantled a right wing argument that tackling the cost of living crisis is…