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The millions of tonnes of carbon emissions that don't offically exist

10 Dec 2021

 

HOW a blind spot in the Kyoto Protocol helped create the biomass industry.

In the North of England, in a tiny village called Drax, there is a power plant, also called Drax. The name is ominous: the sad honk of a mistake, ending in a hazardous-chemical “X.”


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Barclays exits net zero banking alliance

Tue 5 Aug 2025

Barclays will exit the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, marking the second UK-based bank to withdraw from the UN-backed coalition dedicated to advancing global net zero goals through their financing activities, after the departure last month of HSBC.

Climateflation could push up UK food prices by more than a third by 2050, report says

29 Jul 2025

Increasingly extreme weather threatens production and supply chains in Britain and elsewhere.

Climate groups want UK wealth tax to make super-rich fund sustainable economy

17 Jul 2025

Growing number of campaigners urge government to ensure green investment is not done ‘on backs of the poor’.

HSBC becomes first UK bank to quit industry’s net zero alliance

15 Jul 2025

Campaigners condemn ‘troubling’ move that follows departure of six of largest US banks after Trump’s election.

“Compliant deception”: MPs warn of oil industry greenwashing at debate on proposed fossil ad ban

14 Jul 2025

UK’s first parliamentary debate on the issue drew comparisons both with tobacco industry tactics and the industry’s now widely accepted ad ban.

UK: Thousands lobby MPs to demand climate action

10 Jul 2025

More than 5,000 people from across the UK arrived in Westminster on Wednesday to meet their MPs and demand urgent climate action to protect their communities.

Net-zero much cheaper than thought for UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly

9 Jul 2025

Reaching net-zero will be much cheaper for the UK government than previously expected – and the economic damages of unmitigated climate change far more severe.

Activists at the June protest unfurled a 15-metre-long in front of the headquarters of WPP, reading "WPP are climate criminals, ban fossil fuel advertising".

Activists protest at London headquarters of global ad giant promoting fossil fuels

3 Jul 2025

The agency’s work for the fossil fuel industry has made it “complicit in causing existential harm to people and planet”, say campaigners, who are calling on WPP to drop those clients.

UK can reach net zero by 2050, climate report finds

26 Jun 2025

Climate Change Committee says current targets could be met provided country takes ‘steps forward’ to achieve them.

Oil giant funds computer game that promotes fossil fuels to schoolchildren

9 Jun 2025

Equinor, the company looking to develop the Rosebank oil field in the North Sea, has funded a computer game aimed at UK school children, promoting the idea that fossil fuels are part of a green energy mix.

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