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What will you be eating this World Meat Free Week?

Posted by Tom Micklewright - 9th June 2018

What’s for lunch this week? It’s World Meat Free Week and organisations from across the world will be celebrating plant based meals and how they can help us reduce climate change. Globally, livestock releases as much greenhouse gases as all cars, trucks, planes and ships put together. [1]… Read More

Five things you should know about Gove’s ‘green Brexit’

Posted by Flo Stuart-Leach - 31st May 2018
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The beautiful Shiant Isles are home to large populations of seabirds, including puffins.

Over and over again we’ve been promised a ‘green Brexit’. Prime Minister Theresa May pledged “let me be very clear, Brexit will not mean a lowering of environmental standards.” And last year Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, spoke about plans for “a new, world-leading” environmental watchdog that would “give the environment… Read More

In Pictures: How an exotic tree species is threatening the Great Northern Forest and Indigenous People’s rights

Posted by Angela Glienicke - 22nd May 2018
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Brown bear in Swedish forest.
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On the International Day of Biodiversity a new report by the Swedish Sami Association reveals how the Swedish forest industry endangers the biodiversity of the Swedish Boreal Forest by logging and planting of an invasive tree species, the Lodgepole pine. The transformation of an intact biodiverse forest to plantations… Read More

How do car companies compare in driving us towards a cleaner greener future?

Posted by Mel Evans - 3rd May 2018
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50 Greenpeace volunteers protest against the high fuel consumption of the new Volkswagen Golf VII, during its official launch by VW at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. The activists hold placards and banners bearing the messages: "The new VW Golf: Failing the Climate" and "VW Das Problem" in German, French and English. Gegen den hohen Spritverbrauch des neuen Golf VII von Volkswagen protestieren rund fuenfzig Greenpeace Ehrenamtliche bei der offiziellen Vorstellung in Berlin vor der Neuen Nationalgalerie. Die Aktivisten halten Schilder und Banner mit der Botschaft: "Der neue Colf – Klimaziel verfehlt!“ und "VW Das Problem" auf Deutsch, Englisch und Franzoesisch.

The big picture The UK government says it will end diesel and petrol sales by 2040, with the Scottish government aiming higher at 2032. But the Climate Change Committee says it must be sooner, calling for 60% of car sales to be fully electric by 2030. To stay… Read More

Government Plastic Consultation: Talking Points and Advice.

Posted by Anthony Lewis - 3rd May 2018
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Underwater image of a turtle with plastic on his head.
All rights reserved. Credit: © Troy Mayne / Oceanic Imagery Publications

Plastic is everywhere, but thankfully we have a chance to make huge progress in the fight against plastic pollution. The government has opened a consultation looking at how new laws and regulations could be used to reduce plastic waste.    We’ve made a tool that… Read More

In Pictures: Massive deforestation linked to major consumer brands

Posted by Angela Glienicke - 2nd May 2018
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All rights reserved. Credit: © Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace

A new investigation by Greenpeace International reveals that a palm oil supplier to Mars, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever is destroying rainforests in Papua, Indonesia. Satellite analysis suggests that around 4,000ha of rainforest were cleared in PT Megakarya Jaya Raya concession between May 2015 and April 2017 – an area almost half… Read More