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Analysis: People Want Action on Climate Change But Also Want Climate Protesters Locked Up

Ell Folan

Two-thirds of Britons fear climate breakdown. They also want to make it harder for activists to do something about it. Ell Folan unpicks some contradictory opinions.

$A fracking rig stands outside the Houses of Parliament during an anti-fracking protest by Greenpeace activists in London$

Opinion: The GMB Is Completely Wrong About Fracking. Here’s Why

Aaron Bastani

The GMB trade union has said the Tories are right to lift the fracking ban, claiming it could ‘create thousands of good jobs’ at little cost to the climate. This is completely wrong, writes Aaron Bastani.

Downstream: How the Mainstream Media Enabled Climate Denial

Aaron Bastani speaks to George Monbiot about COP26, which countries are climate change leaders and how the mainstream media enabled a culture of climate denial when it mattered most.

Downstream: Climate Change Is Violent, That’s Why We Need Sabotage. Aaron Bastani Meets Andreas Malm

From food scarcity to extreme weather, climate change will affect the lives of billions of people around the world. But at what point are its future horrors unacceptable? And how should that shape climate politics now? Aaron Bastani speaks to author Andreas Malm about the limits of today’s activism and what is to be done […]

Analysis: Is China the World’s Worst Climate Culprit?

Aaron Bastani

China is easily the world’s leading polluter. But when you take into account the country's size, population, investment in renewables and outsourced emissions things become a lot more complicated, writes Aaron Bastani.

Downstream: Why It’s Eco-Socialism or Collapse

Climate change is better understood as climate systems breakdown, and it’s only through the lens of the latter that we can grasp the scale of the crisis ahead. On this episode of Downstream, Aaron Bastani is joined by Mat Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton to discuss their new book, Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the […]

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson with Sir David Attenborough talk to school children at the Science Museum for Launch of the UK hosting of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26)

Analysis: So Far, the Tories’ ‘Green Industrial Revolution’ Is Pure PR. This Year They Have an Opportunity to Change That

James Meadway

A net-zero target with no plan to meet it, billions of re-announced funding - when will we start seeing the substance behind the rhetoric? Possibly at November's climate conference, writes James Meadway.

Streams of smoke coming out of an oil refinery at sunset

Analysis: Can Big Oil Be Trusted Now?

Joe Sandler Clarke

In recent months, BP, Shell, Eni, Total and Equinor have all committed to achieving ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050. Joe Sandler Clarke takes a look at what’s really going on behind these new green pledges.

An aerial photograph of mineral mines, overlaid with map imagery.

Opinion: Can We Go Green Without Plundering the Global South?

Harpreet Kaur Paul

Is it possible to decarbonise the Global North's energy supply chains without yet more wealth and resource extraction from the Global South? Only by prioritising flourishing for all, argues human rights lawyer Harpreet Kaur Paul.