Action on climate emergency
While temperatures keep rising COP30 failed the climate challenge ending with an outcome that contains no direct reference to the fossil fuels that are heating up the planet. Meeting in in Belém, Brazil, it was a disappointing conclusion as more than 80 countries including the UK and EU had wanted the meeting to commit the …
What is war good for? Oil profits, if the fact that 2023 was a bumper year for shareholders investing in oil is anything to go by. While the majority struggle to cope with the cost of living crisis and the hike in energy prices, shareholders in the five largest oil companies can expect record pay-outs …
Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, as COP28 opens, a timely report by The Guardian, Oxfam, and the Stockholm Environment Institute reveals that the richest 1% of humanity is responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%, with dire consequences for vulnerable communities and global efforts to tackle the climate …
Ahead of COP28 the UEA’s hypocritical and cynical behaviour has been exposed in leaked documents obtained by the BBC. The papers revealed that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) planned to use its role as the host of UN climate talks as an opportunity to strike oil and gas deals, the BBC has learned. The briefing …
Barry White News has broken that Vauxhall and Fiat manufacturer Stellantis has urged the government to renegotiate rules in the Brexit trade deal that it says could now force it … Continue reading “Brexit deal must be renegotiated or UK motor operations could close”
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Today’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that time is running out on the climate crisis as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert. It represents a final warning on the climate crisis. The IPCC found more than …
Philip Pearson Greener Jobs Alliance On 5 March 2023, the UN finally agreed an historic ocean protection treaty. Oceans Campaigner at Greenpeace International, Louisa Casson, says it’s ‘a monumental win for ocean protection, an important sign that multilateralism still works in an increasingly divided world. The agreement of this Global Ocean Treaty sends a powerful …