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HSBC: what they’ve said about funding deforestation, and why it’s wrong

Posted by Jamie Woolley - 8th February 2017
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Over three weeks ago, we exposed how HSBC is funding palm oil companies that are tearing up Indonesia’s forests. Since then, thousands of emails have been sent to the CEO. Now HSBC is responding to those emails, but what it’s saying is at times… Read More

4 reasons to tell HSBC: stop funding forest destruction

Posted by Joe Sutherland - 7th February 2017

HSBC claim to take sustainability seriously. But secret filming has caught a company funded by the bank bulldozing forests in Indonesia for palm oil. Since then over 200,000 people across the world have signed the petition demanding that it stops funding palm oil predators. We’ve raised our voices… Read More

A government scheme for funding renewables is about to be sold off to a firm that backs fracking. We must stop this

Posted by Richard Casson - 3rd February 2017
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If you’re on Greenpeace’s email list, chances are you’ll have just received an email about the Green Investment Bank – a government body that is currently being privatised. If the sale goes through as it stands, it could have devastating consequences on the UK renewable energy industry. That’s why… Read More

How much space would need to be covered by solar panels to power every home in the UK?

Posted by Richard Casson - 1st February 2017

Have you ever wondered – how much space would need to be covered by solar panels, if we tried to produce the amount of power used by every home in the UK? Well, here’s the answer… 0.3% of the UK. That’s about 827 km². Or, to put it another… Read More

Tension in the Air: making Mary Poppins fly

Posted by Mel Evans - 26th January 2017
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This weekend at Somerset House in London – after a week of high alert air pollution – you can see Mary Poppins fly, just like she did on 6th January, merely a week into 2017, when the UK breached its air pollution limit for the entire year. Tension in the… Read More