Climate Breakdown? We need to talk about the Treasury

Climate Breakdown? We need to talk about the Treasury

Extinction Rebellion held a People’s Assembly in Parliament to identify new priorities for each government department, this is an adapted from Andrew Simms’ short speech on the challenge to the Treasury When he led the Treasury as Chancellor of the...
Shorts and sun-shades in February then drowning in March

Shorts and sun-shades in February then drowning in March

Weather and climate are not the same, but Bill McGuire is reeling at the numbers rolling-up from recent extreme weather events and how climate change is loading the dice. Here he writes about why… The UK weather at the end of February was was the first time that...
Running to stand still in the North Sea clean-up

Running to stand still in the North Sea clean-up

One of the peculiar implications of our obsession with oil and fossil fuels is the strange way the UK has decided to pay for the decommissioning of the vast swathes of concrete and steel that now litters the North Sea. READ THE NEW REPORT HERE: Rigged: how the UK oil...