Climate

Why I joined Greenpeace to close down Volkswagen’s UK headquarters

Posted by Aarash Saleh - 30th August 2018
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Ordinarily on a Monday morning I’d be in my consulting room as a respiratory doctor, but Monday last week I joined Greenpeace to close down Volkswagen’s UK headquarters by setting up an air pollution health clinic right at their front door. We offered staff health checks and called on the… Read More

What’s going on with the weather?

Posted by Flo Stuart-Leach - 30th July 2018
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All rights reserved. Credit: Paddling down a flooded highway in Houston, US during Hurricane Harvey, 2017 - the kind of extreme weather that we're seeing more and more of. © Mannie Garcia/ Greenpeace.

In recent weeks we’ve seen horrifying fires in Greece, Colorado and the Arctic circle, record breaking temperatures around the world and extreme drought in places like Cape Town – to name a few. And in the UK, we’ve been feeling it too with blistering heat followed by dramatic storms. So while… Read More

Rebecca from Belfast – Why Barclays needs to stop funding tar sands pipelines

Posted by Greenpeace UK - 24th July 2018
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My name’s Rebecca and I am a self-published author, writing science fiction based on current environmental issues. I’ve been running the Belfast Greenpeace group since February this year and of the campaigns I’ve been involved in, I find the current pipelines campaign against Barclays really important. Read More

Why the government’s post-Brexit environment plan isn’t good enough – and what you can do

Posted by Flo Stuart-Leach - 23rd July 2018
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In January, the government issued its ‘’25 year Environment Plan” in a grand bid to foster the first generation to leave the environment in a better state than before. Hurrah! Except… plans for protecting the environment in the Government’s Brexit legislation agreed in June still contain some serious loopholes. Here’s… Read More

Why Greenpeace blocked Barclays’ HQ

Posted by Aakash Naik - 19th July 2018
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40 Greenpeace activists take over the main entrance to Barclays Bank’s corporate headquarters near Canary Wharf in London’s docklands.

Earlier today 40 Greenpeace UK volunteers took over the main entrance to Barclays Bank’s corporate headquarters near Canary Wharf in London’s docklands.   Six of them were climbers who scaled the entrance’s portico, where they recreated a tar sands oil leak dripping down from the bank’s logo. The team… Read More

Holding Barclays to account

Posted by Fiona Nicholls - 16th July 2018
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Toxic tar sands pipelines don’t just happen – they need funding, serious amounts of funding. And that money comes -in part at least- from banks, like Barclays… It’s kind of a simple story, really, big projects need big money – without finance from banks, it’s really tough for… Read More