World leaders failed us at COP26. But change doesn’t come from glitzy conferences
Copenhagen was a failure that demotivated activists, while Paris merely placated them. But Glasgow has radicalised a generation
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Published in:Dark Money Investigations: OpinionThe Brexit dark money lobby has a new target – climate change action
Brexit showed that a few ruthless, well-connected people with big money behind them can change history. Now they’re at it again, and the stakes are even higher
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Published in:Dark Money Investigations: NewsRevealing Johnson’s talks with BP not ‘in public interest’, UK government says
Exclusive: Details of secretive meeting between the PM and the oil giant among crucial climate documents the Cabinet Office refuses to release
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Published in:Home: OpinionWe need far more radical thinking than any COP26 deal to save the planet
Global cooperation is vital to tackle the security threats of climate change and COVID-19, yet leaders keep pumping funds into outdated militaries
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Published in:openDemocracyUK: OpinionCOP26: How the UK started the climate crisis
Boris Johnson will soon take on the role of the bombastic host at the UN's climate conference in Glasgow. Don't let him pretend we’re the good guys
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Published in:openDemocracyUK: NewsBP paid ex-MI6 spy firm to snoop on green campaigners
Exclusive: Oil giant also shared intelligence on environmentalists with British Museum and Warwick University in ‘shocking’ web of surveillance
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: OpinionCOP26: Why many are sceptical of politicians’ $19bn pledge to save the Amazon
World leaders have committed to tackling deforestation by 2030, but Indigenous communities know such rhetoric rarely leads to action
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Published in:openDemocracyUK: NewsTory MP calling for delay to UK climate action has banked £150k from oil firm
Former energy minister John Hayes, who has likened climate protesters to ‘Radical Islam’, has received a £50,000 salary from BB Energy since 2018
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Published in:openDemocracyUK: NewsBritish MPs urge privacy watchdog to investigate BP for ‘political spying’
Oil giant’s actions branded ‘shocking and intrusive’ after openDemocracy revealed it paid a spy firm to snoop on peaceful climate activists
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Published in:Dark Money Investigations: News43 Lords have financial interests in fossil fuel industry
Politicians accused of being ‘worryingly cosy’ with oil and gas firms as it’s revealed almost one in ten Tory peers has financial stake in the sector
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Published in:ourEconomy: AnalysisGreenland’s government bans oil drilling, leads indigenous resistance to extractive capitalism
The young indigenous leadership of Múte Bourup Egede is battling for green sovereignty in a time of climate collapse
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Published in:Home: NewsOil industry bigwigs given platform at COP26 despite organisers’ claims
Exclusive: UK government hosts said Big Oil companies wouldn’t be welcome, but BP’s CEO is among fossil fuel lobbyists at the heart of the conference
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Published in:ourEconomy: AnalysisIt’s time for the renewables industry to get dirty
The industry must step up and beat fossil fuels at their own game. Here’s the plan
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Published in:50.50: OpinionThe Christian Right is why the US won’t deliver on climate change
American democracy is in crisis. That’s why the US can’t be counted on to act responsibly on the world stage with any consistency
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionMark Carney likes to talk green, but he’s just another agent of the status quo
The former Bank of England governor is finance adviser at COP26 and rumoured to be running for Canadian prime minister. But his new book is just a flutter of platitudes
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Published in:North Africa, West Asia: FeatureClimate change is killing Libya’s honey bees
Sweltering summers and cold winters as a result of climate change are hurting Libya’s traditional culture of beekeeping, and the production of its much-valued honey
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Published in:North Africa, West Asia: FeatureEgypt’s desertification is ruining fields, cutting crops and displacing farmers
Agriculture accounts for 28% of all jobs in Egypt. With temperatures predicted to rise by 2-3% by 2050, many families will lose their livelihoods
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Published in:Home: AnalysisClimate action is Nigeria’s chance to free itself from the tyranny of oil
British colonialism’s horrific legacy has not only suppressed this complex African state’s prosperity but is now causing dangerous desertification
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Published in:Home: OpinionHow to make COP26 a success? Talk about plastics
The annual climate conference needs world leaders to commit to tangible goals. Reducing plastic production is an urgent issue
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Published in:Countering the Radical Right: AnalysisThe far Right has moved from climate denial to obstructing climate action
By seemingly accepting the climate crisis’s existence, the far Right can use it to ‘Other’ migrants and leftists, while appearing as progressive actors
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Published in:Home: OpinionSport must accept its role in the climate crisis and change its game
The industry’s response to climate change faces a series of problems – now, at COP26, it must resolve them
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionTackling climate breakdown and delivering economic justice must go hand in hand
Global leaders will fail to address the climate crisis unless they confront its root cause: an unjust economic system that is killing the planet
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Published in:openDemocracyUK: OpinionIt’s time to issue climate reparations to working-class people around the world
Shared struggles, shared solutions: connecting communities from east London to Ogoniland in search of justice
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Published in:ourEconomy: AnalysisFrom Paris to Glasgow: fossil fuel interests continue to block climate action
New research reveals how six fossil fuel giants captured European climate politics
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Published in:Home: OpinionCosta Rica: Latin America’s climate champion
Costa Rica is a rare country whose efforts have been consistent with the Paris Agreement
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionBarbados: the small but mighty force for climate action
The island’s first female premiere shows the connection between slavery, reparations and climate finance – and how to be a world-class leader
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Published in:oDR: AnalysisWhat can we expect from Russia at COP26?
We ask experts whether the Kremlin’s latest moves on climate, including its 2060 net-zero target, heralds genuine change or more greenwash
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionForget tulips and windmills, the Netherlands is the dirty old man of Europe
The Dutch image of a progressive paradise is just good PR – you only have to look at its record on the climate
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: OpinionBolsonaro’s empty climate promises for Brazil
As Bolsonaro claims to protect forests, his leadership has allowed devastation of the Amazonian jungle to reach epic heights
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Published in:Home: AnalysisGlasgow’s COP26 is crunch time to save the world from disaster
Looking back on 30 years of climate conferences, Geoffrey Lean recalls the many missed opportunities for change that led us to this boiling point
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Published in:North Africa, West Asia: OpinionWill climate change stop Arabia from being Saudi?
The power of the House of Saud is a direct product of the West’s obsession with oil – can it survive a global shift to green energy?
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Published in:ourEconomy: AnalysisJoe Biden is in no position to lecture the world on climate change
The US president’s administration has lots of good rhetoric but little action
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Published in:Home: AnalysisWhy do Hungary’s climate change-fearing voters keep electing Viktor Orbán?
In a country that’s dangerously susceptible to heatwaves and droughts, there is growing anxiety over the climate crisis
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Published in:ourEconomy: InvestigationEU fails to reduce dependency on fossil fuels amid soaring energy bills
As the global energy crisis intensifies, the EU is renewing its commitment to fossil fuels instead of investing in green energy
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Published in:Home: AnalysisMexico once led the way on climate policies. Now, it has taken a step backwards
As it steers towards fossil fuels, the Latin American nation is on a path opposite to the objectives of the Paris Agreement
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: OpinionIf we lose the Amazon, our world will lose its future
Brazil is voting to legalize the destruction of the Amazon forest and the extermination of Indigenous peoples, the forest’s last line of defense
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: OpinionTo help Indigenous people in Brazil, let’s challenge our own violence
Rather than looking to ‘save’ others, we should aim to dismantle the hatred and exploitation of those who reject property and national borders
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: InvestigationCoca farming is destroying Peru’s Amazon. Is it time for a radical solution?
Deforestation is accelerating in the wake of the pandemic and the war on drugs. Handing power back to Indigenous communities could stop the spread
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Published in:Home: AnalysisThe Global North caused the climate crisis. Now is the time to pay its dues
Extreme weather changes are causing havoc in African states such as Zambia but they can’t afford a Green New Deal without international support
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Published in:openDemocracyUK: OpinionKeir Starmer blanked me at Labour conference, but we can’t ignore the climate crisis
The Labour leader should step aside if he can’t deliver on climate action, says a young Green New Deal campaigner
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Published in:Home: OpinionClimate activists have transformed German politics
This is Merkel’s last chance to show she’s the climate chancellor. But her record isn’t good enough
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: OpinionProtecting 30% of the Earth by 2030 would threaten Indigenous peoples
Though 30x30 conservation appears a way to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, it could dispossess many communities
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Published in:Home: OpinionHow to shop without costing the Earth
Consumerism is undoubtedly bad for the planet, but with Singles Day and the forthcoming season of goodwill and unbridled spending, here are some eco-friendly ways to shop
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Published in:Home: AnalysisIs China taking climate change more seriously than the West?
The country has shown that there is an authoritarian path through the climate crisis. We need to follow the democratic one