Total 7 Posts
Why are people still flying to climate conferences by private jet?
5 min read
Over 70,000 delegates, including Rishi Sunak, David Cameron, and King Charles, attend COP28 in Dubai, but over 300 private jet journeys raise environmental concerns. The carbon footprint analysis urges sustainable travel choices.
It’s time to limit how often we can travel abroad – ‘carbon passports’ may be the answer
5 min read
This summer saw global tourism rebound to 84% of pre-pandemic levels, raising climate change concerns due to extreme weather events. A proposal for “carbon passports” aims to curb environmental impact by 2040.
Rainforest offset credits likely to be “phantom credits”
2 min read
More than 90% of the world’s leading carbon offsets provider’s rainforest offset credits are likely to be “phantom credits” and do not represent genuine carbon reductions.
Why COP27 should be the last of these pointless corporate love-ins
8 min read
Given how little the COP conferences have achieved since they began in 1995 – not to mention their gigantic carbon footprints – it is time to end this spectacle of private jets flying in dignitaries and delegates to discuss the climate emergency.
This could open the door to fracking
4 min read
We will continue to stand side-by-side with the local people of Dunsfold in their campaign to protect the environment from a drilling project that could open the door to future projects that will add to the UK’s carbon footprint.
Meat-eating is a big climate issue – but isn’t getting the attention it deserves.
5 min read
Coal, cars, cash and trees: but what about the cows?
Overseas trade has a hidden environmental ‘disaster footprint’.
5 min read
Foreign trade outsources both emissions and environmental hazards.