Energy

Last edited 6 November 2014 at 3:40pm

Reducing CO2 emissions from energy generation is key to tackling climate change. Over the coming years, the UK's ageing coal, gas and nuclear power stations will need replacing and we have to decide what comes next. Do we want a clean energy future and a thriving green economy or do we rebuild the expensive, polluting energy dinosaurs?

We're campaigning for a clean energy future. A stronger green economy with new jobs and growth. Clean, efficient renewable energy and to end CO2 emissions from electricity generation.

Campaign updates

The oil is still out there

If you believed the BP-fuelled media spin, you'd think the Gulf of Mexico spill was all cleaned up. Not so. According to a report today from scientists from...
Posted by jamess - 17 August, 2010 - 15:55
Aerial view of the MV Esperanza in the Pacific ocean

Where is the Espy going? We're not saying... yet

I’m on the Greenpeace’s ship Esperanza and we're leaving London today. I can’t tell you where we’re going yet, but I can tell you that we are off to confront...
Posted by lisavickers - 12 August, 2010 - 09:02 -

Oil lobbyists trying to weaken law which would keep tar sands out of Europe

The BP stations we closed down last week have all long since opened again but the effects our thirst for oil is having on the planet continue. The oil spill...
Posted by jamie - 3 August, 2010 - 15:04

We've got a new BP logo. Now let's spread it

Three months ago we asked you to help rebrand BP and design them a logo better suited to a company responsible for a string of environmental disasters,...
Posted by jamess - 2 August, 2010 - 11:27

A funeral and a celebration: grim clouds over Dalian

Fishermen scoop oily sludge from the oil spill in Dalian, China (c) Arthur JD/Greenpeace Arthur JD writes from Dalian in China... I arrived in Dalian on the...
Posted by jamie - 28 July, 2010 - 13:35

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