Phoebe Cooke

About

Phoebe joined DeSmog in 2020. She is currently co-deputy editor and was previously the organisation’s Senior Reporter.

Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, Politico and Financial Times, as well as German titles Deutsche Welle and Klimareporter. Phoebe is NCTJ-accredited, and holds a degree in German from Oxford University and a Masterโ€™s in environmental politics from Birkbeck.

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Shellโ€™s new net zero strategy is โ€œgrotesqueโ€ and includes an โ€œimpossibleโ€ reliance on tree-planting, campaigners haveย claimed. The oil major today revealed an โ€œacceleratedโ€ strategy to reduce oil ...
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โ€œHands off ourย sausages.โ€ A war on bacon has been waged, apparently. According to The Sun, the nationโ€™s bangers are at risk from a โ€œbarmyโ€ meat tax. โ€œTax raid on your lifestyle!โ€ warned The Mail. ...
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An initiative led by former Bank of England governor Mark Carney is failing to address climate campaigners' concerns about the validity of carbon credits.

An initiative led by former Bank of England governor Mark Carney is failing to address climate campaigners' concerns about the validity of carbon credits.
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Many of the worldโ€™s most polluting companies are being handed a โ€œget out of jail freeโ€ card by being invited to shape a scaled-up offsetting market, campaignersย claim. The Taskforce on Scaling Vol...
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The governmentโ€™s decision not to block the UK's first deep coal mine for 30 years has prompted a major backlash from climateย campaigners. Woodhouse Colliery, a ยฃ165 million mine near the smallย por...
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A calamitous year of lockdowns, tiers, and certainly tears, have left us reaching for 2021 like sun-starved plants in a darkenedย room. The last 12 months have also been a stark reminder of how f...
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Campaigners are today celebrating a โ€œchanging tideโ€ after plans to extract 800,000 tonnes of coal in the North East wereย rejected.ย  A report for Newcastle City Council found the impact of an openc...
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Parler is fast becoming a conservative echo-chamber but big name climate deniers don't seem to be abandoning mainstream social media for the fringe platform โ€” at least notย yet. An analysis by DeS...
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Londonโ€™s City Hall is facing questions over its decision to hire a private intelligence firm known for monitoring environmental activists on behalf of fossil fuel companiesย without competitors bein...
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Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney's initiative to grow the voluntary carbon market has been described as โ€œa dangerous distractionโ€ from the urgent need for major polluters to slash carbon...