fbpx
Civil society is kept out by UN security at climate talks in Madrid. Photo: Global Forest Coalition

Corporate-captured climate talks ignores peoples’ demands for climate justice

Key fights at the UN climate conference COP25 in Madrid show Governments fighting for fossil fuel companies rather than a liveable future.

Read more
Protestors at the UN climate talks hold a banner reading 'No carbon markets'

We can’t buy our way out of the climate crisis

Carbon markets are being pushed by big corporations at the UN climate talks, but decades of experience tells us they won’t cut emissions.

Read more

Key issues at the 2019 climate talks

A look ahead at the big issues at the UN climate talks in Madrid, 2-13 December.

Read more

The end of the road for fracking in Scotland

The Scottish Government finally confirms a position of ‘no support’ for fracking.

Read more

SeaChange report shows how we can protect climate and create jobs

New research shows UK oil and gas drilling plans will breach climate commitments. But a just transition to clean energy will create three times as many jobs.

Read more

If we are to tackle climate change, we must change the system

The failure of governments to address the root causes of the multiple crises we face is creating dangerous politics and systemic problems.

Read more
Activists with climate justice banner at COP23 climate demo

Equity key to 1.5ºC as UN climate talks open

Equity requires that historical polluters cut emissions faster, with massive reductions required over the course of the next decade.

Read more
Events

Climate deaths in UK will treble, MPs warn

A shocking 7,000 people will die in the UK each year by mid century from the impacts of heat unless governments take meaningful action to combat climate change.

Read more

Pressure builds for a legal ban as fracking licence extended

Scottish Ministers have extended a fracking licence in the central belt for 12 months

Read more