The European coordinator of international climate campaign group 350.org talks to the Ecologist about civil disobedience outside the White House and why she's gearing up for September 24th
… say what makes a successful campaign. For me campaigns that are the starting point to build … more people to take action are successful campaigns. One of our most successful campaigns in this regard has been obviously …
The Valbona Valley in northern Albania faces destruction from the planned works, despite being within the protected area of the Valbona National Park. LAURA BRIGGS reports
New hydroelectric power projects threaten The Valbona Valley in Albania Laura Briggs | 2nd December 2016 News Energy Campaigning Renewables Botany your-journey.jpeg The Valbona Valley in northern …
Friends of the Earth opposes new nuclear power stations in the UK. And that's great, writes Jonathon Porritt, except for their complete failure to campaign about it - even though the government's nuclear obsession is a huge obstruction to the renewable energy future FoE says it wants. Please can we have some action now?
… letter-writing, and support for a few sign-up campaigns. It's left all the rest of it to …
A new campaign group is trying to push through reforms that would give customers a choice in investments and make banks more socially useful. But can it break through the banking bottleneck?
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Norway's sovereign wealth fund, worth over $900 billion, has today announced that it will divest from coal, a move expected to force the sale of investments worth $13.3 billion. Campaigners say that other funds have now 'run out of excuses' not to follow suit.
Norway's $1 trillion wealth fund to divest from coal The Ecologist | 5th June 2015 News Fossil Fuels Finance Coal Renewables Norway norway-divest-march-cut.jpg Norway's sovereign wealth fund, worth …
At first it looked like a journalistic coup, writes Neil Crumpton - the BBC's 'scoop' that FOE was no longer opposed to nuclear power. Except that FOE remains firmly anti-nuclear as it has been for decades. The spotlight must now be turned on the BBC itself, and its little-known but shocking links to the nuclear industry
… to nuclear power. It was news to the group's campaigns director, Craig Bennett, who had … limited energy and funding on more winnable campaigns. So any shift regarding 'closure …
Climate change minister urges more urgent cuts to greenhouse gas emissions while allowing renewed push for oil in remote regions
Huhne accused of 'hypocrisy' for promoting offshore oil in Scotland and Arctic The Ecologist | 4th March 2011 News Oil Energy Climate Change Arctic Renewables shetlands.jpg The UK recently approved …
Campaigners are outraged over airline Lufthansa and German government funding for jatropha biofuels trial
Germany joins up with Lufthansa to sponsor biofuel six times worse than fossil fuels William McLennan | 19th April 2011 News Biofuels Renewables Energy Airlines airplanes.jpg European airline …
Pope Francis's famous encyclical on climate change is part of a broad global shift to environmental awareness among faith communities, writes Tim Gee. Christian churches and congregations are among those joining the fast growing fossil fuel divestment movement, switching to renewable energy, and reaching out to wider society to help protect our home planet, Earth.
… Christian Aid . To contact the Christian Aid campaigns team email campaigns@christian-aid.org . What if the …
Twice as many people in India and Japan rank climate change as one of the most important environmental issues, highlighting the challenge facing UK policymakers and climatologists
… of the Earth's most (and least) successful campaigns and why community groups are vital …
As Japan's Fukushima disaster unfolds, the EU is financing a controversial nuclear expansion programme in Ukraine to increase exports to energy-hungry consumers in western Europe. Tom Levitt reports
EU 'ignoring safety risks' in financing of nuclear expansion in Ukraine Tom Levitt | 17th March 2011 News Nuclear Energy Ukraine EU Renewables Radiation nuclearukraine.jpg Anti-nuclear activists are …
Campaign groups believe the payments will be too low to encourage significant numbers of people to install small scale renewable energy in their homes and communities
UK to pay public for generating green energy - but will it be enough? The Ecologist | 1st February 2010 News Renewables Energy Electricity Solar Wind Biogas Biomass solarinstalling.jpg A similar …
The UK government plans to get companies to pay to insulate energy inefficient homes - recovering the money from savings on the householder's energy bill
… programme director of Transform UK , which campaigns for the establishment of a Green …
Feed-in Tariffs for renewables are what the UK needs to make home-grown energy more attractive. We look at what the 'We Support Solar' coalition is doing to bring about a change, and take a look at the group's new photography competition...
Campaigning for cheaper solar power Stephanie Wallis | 29th July 2009 Activism Climate Change And Energy Fit Tariff Solar Take Action Electricity Renewables celebrate_light_1st.jpg Feed-in Tariffs …
So-called 'smart meters' are being rolled out across the UK, writes David Toke, but they don't support the dynamic pricing that's essential to expand renewable energy and decarbonise our electricity. It's time for green NGOs to get campaigning - and not leave vital decisions to a hostile government, a failing regulator and industry insiders.
Green groups must denounce the sham 'smart meter' scandal David Toke | 22nd March 2017 Comment Energy Renewables Economics Fossil Fuels Corporations Regulation UK substation-cut.jpg So-called 'smart …
Campaigners say the Government is underestimating the potential of small-scale renewable electricity generation in the UK
Feed-in tariffs in danger of being watered down The Ecologist | 30th November 2009 News Energy Soalr Power Renewables Renewable Electricity solar1.jpg Campaigners say the Government is …
European Commission guidance would allow biofuels to be labelled as sustainable even if forests have been destroyed to make way for the palm oil plantations
Palm oil plantations could be classified as forests The Ecologist | 8th February 2010 News Renewables Palm Oil Plantations Energy Biofuels palmoillogging.jpg The EU is currently deciding upon its …
The Paris Agreement provides a clear mandate to limit global warming, writes Jeremy Brecher. And with governments doing nowhere near enough, it's up to ordinary citizens - through civil disobedience if needs be - to make sure the world breaks free from fossil fuels. Let's make 2016 the year of 'Climate Insurgency'!
… gas. In addition to such national plans, campaigns against local fossil fuel …
Just six energy companies EDF, E.ON, Centrica, SSE, Scottish Power and npower control 99 per cent of our domestic energy market but show only minor interest in renewables
… have questioned their power, and a slew of campaigns from environmental , consumer and …
America's crumbling nuclear power plants, dozens of them built to the design that spectacularly failed at Fukushima, must be closed down to prevent catastrophe, writes Harvey Wasserman. So let's hear Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton speak out on the topic and make it a core issue in the Presidential race!
… we really need now are focused, persistent campaigns to bring these rogue nukes down … we really need now are focused, persistent campaigns to bring these rogue nukes down …
Green leader Caroline Lucas will today use a Campaign to Protect Rural England lecture to call for urgent action to resolve conflicting land use issues
Lucas: sustainability requires urgent planning reform The Ecologist | 9th July 2009 News Take Action Investigations Food And Farming Green Party Caroline Lucas CPRE Transport Emissions Renewables …
Big Six energy bosses join David Cameron's campaign against energy efficiency and green energy. Just the way for them to keep on ripping us all off.
Big Six lobby MPs against green energy and efficiency Alex Stevenson Oliver Tickell | 30th October 2013 News Energy Renewables Climate Change Big Six Fossil Energy Big Six energy bosses join David …
The Stop Sizewell C campaign group warns nuclear is costly, diverts investment from green energy sources such as renewables and damages tourism and nature.
New nuclear power station plan lodged Emily Beament | 27th May 2020 News Nuclear Power Stations Climate Breakdown Renewables Chernobyl _86099130_coverimageedfbetterquality.jpg The Stop Sizewell C …
The movement to divest from fossil fuels is gaining strength, writes Ruth Lumley, with $50 billion of institutional investment behind it. This week's news that almost $1 billion of Rockefeller money is moving from fossil fuels to clean energy shows that the world is changing faster than most ever imagined.
Billionnaires against fossil fuels Ruth Lumley Trillion Fund | 27th September 2014 News Finance Fossil Fuels Renewables Climate Change flood-wall-st-cut.jpg The movement to divest from fossil fuels …