Climate Change

Decentralised energy: what are we waiting for?

Posted by bex — 11 January 2007 at 4:53pm - Comments

Update - July 2007: We've launched a new film about why nuclear power can't stop climate change and how a combination of renewables, efficiency and combined heat and power can: watch The Convenient Solution.

Decentralised energy. It can double the efficiency of our power stations. It's helped Woking Council cut its carbon emissions by 77 per cent. It already provides over 50 per cent of Denmark's electricity supplies.

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London's alternative to nuclear power

Posted by bex — 15 December 2006 at 1:46pm - Comments

The Mayor of London Ken Livingstone believes there is an alternative to nuclear power

If you travel on the London underground, you may be seeing a lot more of nuclear waste over the next few weeks than you've been used to. We've joined The Mayor of London Ken Livingstone in launching a poster campaign to tell Londoners about the alternative to the new nuclear power stations Tony Blair wants to build - and inviting them to join the debate on our energy future.

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Edinburgh against climate change

Posted by bex — 8 November 2006 at 9:00am - Comments
Edinburgh at night


The city of Edinburgh is set to become a world-leader in the fight against climate change - a study commissioned by the City of Edinburgh Council, Greenpeace and WWF Scotland, has found that if the city's energy generation was 'decentralised', the city could slash carbon emissions, putting it on track to reach the government's 2050 CO2 reduction targets.

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Didcot Power Station: Greenpeace occupation ends!

Posted by bex — 3 November 2006 at 7:00pm - Comments

Volunteer on top of the cooling tower

© Greenpeace/Kate Davison

Twenty-five of our climate campaigners were arrested at 5.30pm, after spending two days occupying Didcot, Britain's dirtiest power station, succesfully cutting Co2 emissions by stopping coal from being fed into the facility. Their point? To show that there's cleaner, more efficient ways of generating energy - like decentralised energy.

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Power station occupation enters day two

Posted by bex — 3 November 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

A Greenpeace volunteer looks down at the chimneys at Didcot power station

UPDATE: Twenty-five climate campaigners were arrested at 5.30pm today after ending their two day occupation of one of Britain's dirtiest power stations. One of the volunteers Ben Stewart said, "Since being here we have halved Co2 emissions from this power station by stopping coal entering the facility. We've forced Tony Blair to answer direct questions from us about his climate trashing policies and shown that there is a cleaner, more efficient way of generating energy."

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Tea at the top of a coal tower

Posted by bex — 2 November 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

Tea at the top of the coal towerThis morning 30 of our volunteers envaded the UK's second largest coal power station. One group stopped the coal conveyor belt and chained themselves to machinery, while a second group made their way up 1052 stairs to the top of the chimney.

After all those stairs, it was time for a cuppa.

We shut down the facity because - like most of the Britain’s power stations – two-thirds of the energy it generates is wasted, making a massive contribution to climate change. Later the volunteers set to work painting "Blair's Legacy" down the side of the chimney.

We hear a lot of fine talk from Tony Blair, but in reality C02 emissions have gone up under Labour while the climate crisis deepens. His legacy will be climate chaos. Our volunteers will leave the power station when he pledges to ditch these dinosaurs and start investing in cutting edge decentralised energy.

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Climate Change: It's not too late, according to the UK government

Posted by bex — 31 October 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

In a UK review on climate change, British economist and government advisor Sir Nicholas Stern has said that "climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen," but that there "is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we act now and act internationally."

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Climate change: We still have time!

Posted by bex — 30 October 2006 at 9:00am - Comments
Greenpeace activist climbs 700ft coal plant smoke stack

Greenpeace activist climbs 700ft coal plant smoke stack


In his review on climate change, economist and government advisor Sir Nicholas Stern says that "climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen," but that there "is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we act now and act internationally." Which is exactly what we have been saying all along. The scientific and moral cases for acting against climate change have been known for some time - but it's taken an economist to spur the government into action.

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