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The International Court of Justice at The Hague has ruled that countries are legally obliged to prevent harms caused by climate change.
Judges clarified the legal obligations that countries have to protect the Earth’s climate system for current and future generations.
They also clarified the legal consequences for nations that fail to do … … Read on …
Posted on 24 July 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
The Climate Change Committee (UK government’s advisory panel) revealed to parliament last week that 2024 emissions were down by almost 50% to the levels from 1990, putting the country on course to meet their target of a 68% cut by 2030.
The main driver has been the swap of fossil fuels … … Read on …
Posted on 30 June 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
A new toolkit for workplace climate action called The Green Workplaces Toolkit has been published by the TUC to address the climate emergency, future-proof jobs, and negotiate greener and fairer workplaces.
Incredibly detailed and full of good info it’s a whopping 174 pages long. A thorough contents page can help you navigate … … Read on …
Posted on 25 June 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
In August last year Massive Attack staged a ‘proof of concept’ one-day festival in Bristol to show that low carbon festivals are doable. I was lucky enough to attend the event and I wrote an extensive report on it at the time.
The Tyndall Centre for Climate Research has now released the … … Read on …
Posted on 23 June 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
A poll of more than 15,000 people across 13 nations has been conducted on behalf of Oxfam and @greenpeace, resulting in a whopping 81% of people believing that governments should tax oil, gas and coal corporations for the environmental damage they cause, including wildfires, flooding and drought.
With this international survey … … Read on …
Posted on 22 June 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Last week the University of Sussex announced they will be launching an undergraduate degree in climate justice, sustainability and development from next year.
Activism, climate politics, environmental human rights and practical green skills will all be on the agenda.
With litigation now used to hold polluters to account and support climate progress, … … Read on …
Posted on 05 March 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
A new campaign group called Shut the System have kick-started a new phase of the climate activist movement, aiming to shut down key actors in the fossil fuel economy.
In January they cut the internet cables to offices of more than 400 insurance brokers in some of the UK’s major cities.
A spokesperson … … Read on …
Posted on 27 February 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
The UK Climate Change Committee recommended that we should be eating more plant-based foods in order to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero.
One of the easiest ways to do this can be to add more pulses in to our diets.
Pulses, which include various beans, peas, lentils and chickpeas, have … … Read on …
Posted on 26 February 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
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The UK government is set to back plans for a third runway at Heathrow, the country’s busiest airport, and to expand two other airports near London: Gatwick and Luton. The move is designed to support the government’s “mission” to grow the economy.
Air transport is notoriously hard to … … Read on …
Posted on 31 January 2025[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/climate-change-is-hitting-women-the-hardest/
The current capitalist system has created two related crises: ecological decline and social injustice. It has led to environmental damage like climate change, which affects some people more than others.
The two crises mutually reinforce the consequences of the same flawed systems of oppression and power. Climate change exacerbates global … … Read on …
Posted on 18 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/10-reasons-donald-trump-cant-derail-global-climate-action/
If you care about saving Earth from catastrophe, you might be feeling a little down about the re-election of Donald Trump as United States president. Undeniably, his return to the White House is a real setback for climate action.
Trump is a climate change denier who has promised to increase fossil … … Read on …
Posted on 11 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
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“GDP is an outdated way of measuring the health of the economy – it doesn’t reflect the health of people or the planet.” -has been published in The Conversation. Good to see this notion filtering in to the mainstream!
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Posted on 08 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/us-humans-are-complicated
We often say we want to make greener choices – but in reality, we act differently.
Individual climate action sounds great in theory. If many of us chose electric vehicles or bikes, installed solar panels and built energy efficient houses, our actions in aggregate could contribute to wider emissions goals. Then … … Read on …
Posted on 06 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/cattle-cowboys-climate-chaos/
In recent decades, scientists have warned that industrial meat production, and beef in particular, fuels climate change and leads to deforestation, soil erosion, species extinction, ocean dead zones and high levels of methane emissions.
Yet today’s average American still eats three hamburgers per week! 🤯 🐮 🤮
The rise of an extensive … … Read on …
Posted on 01 November 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/the-climate-gap-report-2024/
Ethical Consumer Research Association (ECRA) have released Closing the Climate Gap 2024 – their annual report on progress towards sustainable consumer lifestyles in the UK.
Sadly they offer no prizes for correctly guessing that we are not on track to meet international emissions reduction targets, but as well as highlighting … … Read on …
Posted on 29 October 2024According to the RMI every fifth country in the Global South already has a higher mix of renewables than the Global North. What’s more it controls 70% of global solar and wind resources and 50% of critical minerals.
Posted on 21 October 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) nearly half of the world’s electricity demand will be met by renewables by 2030.
However, the IEA said that the growth still falls short of the target set at the COP28 climate summit (let alone our Paris Agreement target of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees), … … Read on …
Posted on 17 October 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
It’s less than six months since they won power and the Labour party have already scrapped their campaign commitment to provide an annual stimulus of £28 billion for green industries.
Instead they’ve committed £22 billion over 25 years towards the proven myth of carbon capture and storage, giving existing oil companies the … … Read on …
Posted on 16 October 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
A recent study published in the science journal, Nature, has revealed the truth in the myth of climate overshoot.
Ever since the Paris agreement of 2015 set targets for staying below 1.5 degrees, a myth which would appease fossil fuel interests was created: That we could overshoot the 1.5 target and … … Read on …
Posted on 14 October 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Are you an EDF energy customer? No, allow me to widen that net: Have you seen any of EDF energy’s mid-late 2024 advertisement campaign?
If so you might be forgiven for thinking they’re changing their ways and looking to spearhead a revolution in renewables.
I decided to dig a little deeper to find … … Read on …
Posted on 11 October 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
On Sunday 25th August Massive Attack played their first live Bristol show in 5 years in an event marking 25 years of climate activism by the band, which promised to be the lowest carbon show of its size ever staged. It was set up as a first physical fruition of their … … Read on …
Posted on 01 September 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
The number of #ClimateDisasters has increased five-fold over recent decades.
Not all of these events make the headlines, and some which do are quickly forgotten, despite the fact that there is no full ‘recovery’ from some disasters.
@campaigncc have a regularly updated page with news of the most recent events and reports from … … Read on …
Posted on 19 August 2024I attended an awards ceremony at Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, while Glos were playing against Leicestershire. I was there with my dad who collected the main prize.
I was delighted to see there was a Tackling Climate Change Award. Recognition from The ECB that sports clubs need to play their part in tackling the climate crisis.
Posted on 15 August 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
Maxwell Boykoff, University of Colorado Boulder and Beth Osnes, University of Colorado Boulder
In a catchy YouTube video, British comedian Jo Brand translates a scientist’s long-winded description of the fossil fuel industry’s role in the climate crisis this way: “We are paying a bunch of rich dudes 1 trillion dollars a … … Read on …
Posted on 29 February 2024[Read on Ethical Revolution]
(By Nick Davies, Glasgow Caledonian University)
Holidays are making a comeback after several years of disruption caused by the COVID pandemic. Nearly 4 billion passengers boarded international flights in 2022, up from fewer than 2 billion in 2020. Recent research suggests that people are likely to continue travelling more in 2023 … … Read on …
Posted on 15 September 2023