climate change

Responding to the decision not to proceed with the merger of the British Antarctic Survey and National Oceanography Centre, Vicky Wyatt, Greenpeace arctic campaigner said:

“The British Antarctic Survey is a wonderful institution. It is rightly world renowned and has done great work in helping us protect one of the most fragile and beautiful areas on the planet.

Responding to Energy Minister John Hayes' attack on wind farms, Greenpeace Energy Campaigner Leila Deen said:

“John Hayes’ petulant outburst adds to the Coalition’s growing energy shambles and to a deepening divide within Government between those who care about green growth and the economy and those who just want more oil and gas.

Here is a new minister veering off brief and publicly contradicting his bosses. His comments threaten jobs and his approach will drive up energy bills.

“The addition of climate change sceptic and oil company director Peter Lilley to the energy and climate change select committee is part of a growing picture. With Owen Patterson as Environment Secretary and anti-wind campaigner John Hayes now energy minister, you’d be forgiven for thinking the Tories are gearing up to assault the Climate Change Act and increase the UK’s reliance on expensive, imported, polluting fossil fuels.”

The UK’s leading environmental organisations have written to Chancellor George Osborne following reports that he views parliamentary climate change campaigners as the ‘environmental Taliban’.

The letter from John Sauven, Executive Director of Greenpeace, Andy Atkins, Executive Director of Friends of the Earth; Mike Clarke, Chief Executive of RSPB and David Nussbaum, Chief Executive of WWF-UK says:

Dear Chancellor