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Phoebe Cooke

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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 Master’s in environmental politics from Birkbeck.

uk/Workers Should be Focus of Post-COVID Climate Policy 'Reset', Unions Say
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

Trade unions are calling for the government to put regional voices at the heart of its climate strategy - or risk catastrophic consequences. Meeting the UK’s 2050 net-zero target requires a “reset...
Campaigners Demand Court Shuts Down Ecuador’s Oil Pipelines After Spill
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

Communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon are calling for an end to “violence against Indigenous peoples and nature” as a trial into a devastating oil spill resumes today.  The Kichwa and Shuar tribes ...
uk/Climate Campaigners Launch Legal Challenge to ‘Catastrophic’ Government Recovery Package
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

Climate activists are planning to take the government to court over its COVID-19 bailout package, as they urge the UK to face up to its responsibility to tackle climate change. Plan B, a climate l...
uk/Investigation: The Problem with Big Oil’s ‘Forest Fever’
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

Elon Musk, Greta Thunberg, Rishi Sunak, Donald Trump — trees suddenly have an eclectic mix of fans, all drawn to the apparent simplicity of their carbon-locking power. Now Big Oil has joined the pa...
uk/County Durham Coal Mine Extension Deemed ‘Environmentally Unacceptable’
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

Activists are celebrating an “incredible” victory after a bid to extend a coal mine in County Durham was finally scrapped. Plans to dig up an additional 90,000 tonnes of coal from the site of the ...
uk/Court Case Aims to Provoke ‘Radical Shift’ in Energy Policy After Landmark Heathrow Ruling
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

Activists are preparing to take the Government to court over its “out of tune” planning policy in a challenge inspired by the watershed Heathrow ruling. Three claimants - Guardian journalist Georg...
uk/'We’ve Stopped Heathrow Dead in the Tracks' – Campaigners Celebrate Winning Appeal Against Third Runway
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

Campaigners today hailed an “historic” victory for the climate after three judges ruled expansion plans for Heathrow Airport unlawful. Activists erupted into cheers at the Royal Courts of Justice ...
uk/‘It’s a Huge Step Backwards’: Teenagers Hunger Striking to Stop the UK's Newest Coal Mine
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

It’s 5pm on a dismal Monday and commuters are scurrying past Parliament on their way home. In the fast-fading light it’s easy to miss a solitary teenager perched on a wet ledge and holding up a car...

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