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Our website contains a variety of items dating back to 2001. You can use this archive to explore by year, campaign theme, specific campaign, and category. See also our new releases, our media appearances and our newsletters.

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CLIMATE

Fossil Banks – No Thanks

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2nd Dec 2018

Climate change, long considered an urgent but future threat, is now with us, and already impacting the lives of millions of people around the world. It’s being driven in large part by the continued exploration and burning of coal, oil and gas. …

Switch to Ecotricity and they will donate £50 to Friends of the Earth

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18th Nov 2018

Here in the UK, electricity generation is responsible for a quarter of our carbon emissions – making it a huge contributor. That means we urgently need to change the way we power our country and our homes.

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Scrap subsidies for burning wood for power – Please write to your MP (BiofuelWatch)

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We urgently need your help to call on the government to Scrap Subsidies for Burning Wood Biomass and to redirect these subsidies to clean renewables.

Tell your MP to stop the government’s daylight robbery (10:10)

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5th Nov 2018

We know we urgently need to ramp up climate action. But over the last few years the government has been removing support for renewables.

Tell your MP to reject fast-tracking fracking

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28th Oct 2018

On Wednesday, MPs will debate the government’s plans to fast-track fracking – and we need your help.

Ask your MP to be a Zero Hero

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24th Oct 2018

Ten years ago, MPs came together to pass a ground-breaking law: the Climate Change Act. The law was a world first and showed that the UK was serious about tackling climate change.

Don’t let the government fast-track fracking

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29th Aug 2018

The government is consulting on whether exploratory drilling for gas should be categorised as ‘permitted development’.

To: Museum of Science & Industry Shell Out! No place for big oil in public science

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20th Aug 2018

Museum of Science & Industry: drop your sponsorship deal with Shell for the upcoming exhibition ‘Electricity: the spark of life’

Ask your council leaders to STOP fast-tracked fracking (CPRE)

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5th Aug 2018

Recent government proposals to fast-track fracking are getting closer to reality. The government wants to make it possible to drill test wells for non-hydraulic fracking without needing to apply for planning permission, using planning tools intended to approve low-impact developments …

Please object to Drax’s climate-choking plans to burn gas (Biofuelwatch)

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29th Jul 2018

Drax power station has applied to the Planning Inspectorate for permission to replace its two remaining coal-fired units with much larger ones burning fossil (natural) gas. Drax is already the biggest biomass burning plant in the world and the largest single emitter of CO2 in the U.K.

Feeling the heat? Let’s tackle climate change

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The effects of climate change are being felt everywhere. A deadly heatwave is sweeping the globe, wildfires have broken out in the Arctic Circle, and record-breaking temperatures have been recorded from Lapland to the Sahara. In the UK we’ve had the …

Ask the Queen to use low carbon heating from London’s lost rivers (10:10 Climate Action)

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Beneath London run lost rivers. Using the magic of heat pumps, they could provide the city with low carbon heating and cooling – something we really need to tackle climate change.

Tell Carnival to stop its cruise ships destroying the Arctic

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22nd Jul 2018

Carnival – which bills itself as “The World’s Most Popular Cruise Line” – powers its ships with one of the dirtiest fossil fuels that exists: heavy fuel oil (HFO). It does this because heavy fuel oil can be bought at …

Ask your councillors to oppose fast-tracking fracking

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21st Jul 2018

The government has announced proposals to fast-track fracking. Exploratory drilling would be exempt from the need to apply for planning permission, like putting up a garden shed.

Stop the government forcing fracking on communities

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18th May 2018

The government is planning to drastically rewrite planning rules to make it as easy for fracking companies to drill as putting up a garden shed.

Let’s triple our tree planting targets

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To tackle climate change, one of the many things we urgently need to do is plant more trees. The government have committed to plant 11 million trees before 2022. This is great.

Greater Manchester Pension Fund member? Please send this crucial message to them

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14th May 2018

We have a great opportunity to pressure the Greater Manchester Pension Fund to put its investments on a more sustainable footing and would love your help. ShareAction has put together a letter which pushes our fund to use its shareholder …

Save Lancashire from fracking

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4th May 2018

Fracking company Cuadrilla has finished drilling one of their wells at Preston New Road, Lancashire, and will soon apply for government consent to start fracking.

Bring Shell to justice

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4th Apr 2018

Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell is one of the world’s biggest drivers of climate change, leaving a trail of devastation, from Nigeria to the Netherlands.

Sign the petition: British homes, powered by sunshine. (10:10)

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17th Mar 2018

10:10 are installing solar panels on the roofs of community organisations around the UK. They’ll save money on their energy bills and reduce their carbon footprint. But shouldn’t all suitable buildings have solar?

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