climate change

As the UN climate talks opened this morning more than fifty environmental activists took direct action to blockade both major entrances to the UK’s Department of Transport (DfT) in London whilst other campaigners demonstrated with banners outside British embassies in Paris, Berlin and Stockholm.

Today activists from Greenpeace and the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) joined forces outside Parliament to challenge George Osborne to take urgent action to end fuel poverty as official figures showed there had been 25,700 excess winter deaths in 2010/11.

To bring the shocking reality of freezing homes to George Osborne’s attention, Greenpeace and the NPC created a life sized ice covered living room, on St Margaret’s Street, right outside parliament.

Commenting on the joint action, John Sauven, Executive Director of Greenpeace said:

Responding to demands by figures in the aviation industry to scrap air passenger duty, Graham Thompson of Greenpeace said:

Reacting to the news that a third of the countries buying the BBC's Frozen Planet series have not bought the final episode detailing the effects of climate change on the poles, Ben Stewart of Greenpeace said: