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uk/Election 2019: Climate Pledges in the Scottish Party Manifestos
By Mike Small
on
The general election in Scotland is inevitably seen through the bifocal lenses of Brexit and independence, regularly morphed into a single telescope of 'constitutional crisis'. But alongside that e...
uk/Election 2019: Party Manifestos Go Green for the 'Climate Election'
By Sophie Yeo
on
Climate change has been high on the agenda this election. The UK had its first ever leaders’ debate on climate change (where an ice sculpture stood in for the prime minister, Boris Johnson), more v...
uk/Follow the Leader: Conservative Candidates Failing to Attend Local Climate Hustings
By Isabella Kaminski
on
Conservative Party candidates across the UK appear to be following their party leader by failing to participate in public debates on the climate crisis. From Glasgow to Hastings, hustings are bein...
uk/Boris Replaced By Melting Ice Sculpture As Party Leaders Outline Green Visions
By Sophie Yeo
on
Leaders of Britain’s major political parties – minus the governing Tories – have battled it out over their green credentials in the UK’s first ever general election debate on the climate emergency....
uk/Ireland's Chief Scientific Advisor Pins Climate Action Hopes on Silver-Bullet Fossil Fuel Tech
By John Gibbons
on
Ireland’s Chief Scientific Advisor believes fossil fuels still have a role in a low-carbon future – and there is money to be made ensuring it. Late last year, Professor Mark Ferguson, a medical do...
uk/Tory Party's EU Group Hosts Climate Science Denial Event Days Before MEPs Debate Climate Emergency Declaration
By Rich Collett-White
on
MEPs are this week calling for the EU to declare a “climate emergency”, days after a network of climate science deniers held a hearing in the European Parliament claiming the exact opposite, hosted...
uk/Revealed: The Super Wealthy Tory Donors with Ties to Climate Science Denial and Fossil Fuels
By Mat Hope
on
The Conservative Party gets vast sums from an elite club of super wealthy donors, some of whom have made their money from polluting industries or are involved in backing climate science denial in t...
us/Rachel Maddow’s New Book on Russia, Oil, and Politics Accidentally Had Perfect Timing With Trump Impeachment Inquiry
By Dana Drugmand
on
As public hearings in the Trump impeachment inquiry headed into their second week, one of the nation’s top political cable news hosts was connecting the dots between the rise of authoritarianism, c...
uk/Election 2019: Boris Johnson Top Beneficiary of Donations from Supporters of Climate Science Denial
By Mat Hope
on
This election cycle has seen an unprecedented number of announcements from all parties on renewable energy, reforestation, and other items generally reserved for only the greenest on the political ...
uk/Comment: We Need to Have a Prime-Time Debate on the Climate Emergency
By Guest
on
By Jake Woodier, UK Student Climate Network campaigner The upcoming election comes at the end of an unprecedented year of mass climate action, and is a crucial chance to put pressure on politician...

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uk/Election 2019: Climate Pledges in the Scottish Party Manifestos
ByMike Small
on

The general election in Scotland is inevitably seen through the bifocal lenses of Brexit and independence, regularly morphed into a single telescope of 'constitutional crisis'. But alongside that e...
uk/Election 2019: Party Manifestos Go Green for the 'Climate Election'
BySophie Yeo
on

Climate change has been high on the agenda this election. The UK had its first ever leaders’ debate on climate change (where an ice sculpture stood in for the prime minister, Boris Johnson), more v...
uk/Follow the Leader: Conservative Candidates Failing to Attend Local Climate Hustings
ByIsabella Kaminski
on

Conservative Party candidates across the UK appear to be following their party leader by failing to participate in public debates on the climate crisis. From Glasgow to Hastings, hustings are bein...
uk/Boris Replaced By Melting Ice Sculpture As Party Leaders Outline Green Visions
BySophie Yeo
on

Leaders of Britain’s major political parties – minus the governing Tories – have battled it out over their green credentials in the UK’s first ever general election debate on the climate emergency....
uk/Ireland's Chief Scientific Advisor Pins Climate Action Hopes on Silver-Bullet Fossil Fuel Tech
ByJohn Gibbons
on

Ireland’s Chief Scientific Advisor believes fossil fuels still have a role in a low-carbon future – and there is money to be made ensuring it. Late last year, Professor Mark Ferguson, a medical do...
uk/Tory Party's EU Group Hosts Climate Science Denial Event Days Before MEPs Debate Climate Emergency Declaration
ByRich Collett-White
on

MEPs are this week calling for the EU to declare a “climate emergency”, days after a network of climate science deniers held a hearing in the European Parliament claiming the exact opposite, hosted...
uk/Revealed: The Super Wealthy Tory Donors with Ties to Climate Science Denial and Fossil Fuels
ByMat Hope
on

The Conservative Party gets vast sums from an elite club of super wealthy donors, some of whom have made their money from polluting industries or are involved in backing climate science denial in t...
us/Rachel Maddow’s New Book on Russia, Oil, and Politics Accidentally Had Perfect Timing With Trump Impeachment Inquiry
ByDana Drugmand
on

As public hearings in the Trump impeachment inquiry headed into their second week, one of the nation’s top political cable news hosts was connecting the dots between the rise of authoritarianism, c...
uk/Election 2019: Boris Johnson Top Beneficiary of Donations from Supporters of Climate Science Denial
ByMat Hope
on

This election cycle has seen an unprecedented number of announcements from all parties on renewable energy, reforestation, and other items generally reserved for only the greenest on the political ...
uk/Comment: We Need to Have a Prime-Time Debate on the Climate Emergency
ByGuest
on

By Jake Woodier, UK Student Climate Network campaigner The upcoming election comes at the end of an unprecedented year of mass climate action, and is a crucial chance to put pressure on politician...

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