Consumers squander nearly $10bn in critical minerals each year while extraction risks people and the planet
A new report has found that every year consumers discard, or hold on to, disused electronic goods containing raw materials ...
Tag: Environment
Paris Agreement limit almost breached as global temperatures recorded at 1.4°C increase
Global average temperatures from January to September were 1.4°C higher than pre-industrial times. This means that the planet has almost ...
COP28 host announces fossil fuel industry emissions pledge, while scaling up carbon capture technology
As the United Arab Emirates (UAE) COP28 host has tried to burnish its green image, its state fossil fuel company ...
Net zero split is under the magnifying glass at the Conservative party conference
At the Conservative party’s annual conference, talk on the green energy transition has been all the rage. The agenda is ...
Campaigners are outraged as water bills are set for dramatic increases to fund new infrastructure
Water companies in England and Wales announced plans on 2 October to nearly double investment into infrastructure between 2025 and ...
Crowds marched through London against the development of new North Sea oil
Fossil Free London staged a march of hundreds of people through the capital on 30 September. It was protesting the ...
Brazil’s senate approves a controversial bill in a major setback for Indigenous land rights
Less than a week after celebrations of a key victory in Brazil's supreme court, the country experienced a major setback ...
Government greenlights climate-wrecking Rosebank oil and gas field
On Wednesday 27 September, the UK government issued a license to the controversial and potentially disastrous Rosebank oil and gas ...
Water companies ordered by regulator Ofwat to cut bills due to poor performance
On 26 September, Ofwat - the water services regulation authority - ordered water companies in England and Wales to return ...
TotalEnergies gears up for greenwashing at its investor day
French fossil fuel major TotalEnergies will host its next 'Investor Day' on Wednesday 27 September. As it says on the ...
The corporations making up the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure hold a prolific record of ecological and human rights violations
Corporations wrecking the planet and harming frontline communities have added a new chapter to their greenwashing playbook. On 18 September, ...
Green groups call out new nature disclosure framework as another exercise in corporate greenwashing
A coalition of rights groups and environmental non-profits named the Forests & Finance Coalition have called out the “corporate greenwashing” ...
New research highlights strong correlations between race and class and accessibility to public footpaths
A new report by the Ramblers, a walking charity, has laid out in granular detail the race and class privileges ...
Sunak proves why the UN was right to snub the UK PM for its Climate Ambition Summit
On 20 September, world leaders met in New York for the UN Climate Ambition Summit. In a novel move before ...
New extinction study should be a wake-up call to end the Global North’s exploitation of nature
A new study shines a fresh light on the sobering reality of the biodiversity crisis. According to an analysis published ...
Food systems study reveals the EU’s major role in the biodiversity crisis
The EU’s food systems have been destroying nature at a rate faster than ecosystems can regenerate, a new study has ...
Twenty members of Animal Rising convicted of Scottish Grand National disruption
Courts convicted 20 animal rights activists on Friday for disrupting the Scottish Grand National. The group said it wanted to ...
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