United Kingdom

illustration showing two land and environmental defenders stood in a deforested forest looking out at financial institutions in skyscraper offices

Forests

MPs should vote for new deforestation due diligence law in Financial Services and Markets Bill

22 June 2023

Forests

"MPs must seize historic opportunity" as House of Lords votes through landmark amendment to cut off UK financing of illegal deforestation

13 June 2023

Forests

Lords back a new law to prevent the financing of illegal deforestation, ahead of key vote

07 June 2023

Forests

Aviva and LGIM join investors handling more than £2.7 trillion calling for new mandatory deforestation checks in UK law

02 June 2023

Forests

Time to end the money pipeline driving global deforestation and deliver a green UK economy

02 June 2023

Fossil Fuels

British public ‘being ripped off’ as Shell pays just 22p in tax per citizen despite record profits ahead of Shell AGM

23 May 2023

Fossil Fuels

Inside the murky trade of Russian oil

03 May 2023

Fossil Fuels

Ecodesign: Risks and opportunities for a phase out of gas boilers in the EU

24 April 2023

Fossil Fuels

Climate and energy groups call on UK Lords to vote against forcing residents into hydrogen trials

14 April 2023

Forests

UK green finance strategy must end UK banks' financing of deforestation

30 March 2023

Fossil Fuels

Despite windfall tax and record profits, Shell paid just £15 million to UK, 22p per Brit last year

28 March 2023

Fossil Fuels

Hydrogen heating is the next energy crisis in the making

24 March 2023

Global Witness visits and documents a community's struggle against logging and palm oil developments that threaten the land and life of Papua New Guinea’s communities.

Forests

Money talks: the financial sector must raise its voice to save the world’s forests

21 March 2023

Fossil Fuels

BP boss lands £10 million in pay whilst energy bills soared

10 March 2023

Fossil Fuels

While UK workers strike for fair pay Shell's outgoing CEO takes home £9.7 million in 2022

09 March 2023

Forests

Financial Services and Markets Bill holds the key to ending UK financing of deforestation, say Lords across the political spectrum

08 March 2023

Fossil Fuels

Fossil fuel greenwash

15 February 2023

Fossil Fuels

Historic profits for Shell whilst ordinary Brits suffer

02 February 2023

Forests

Former Barclays Chair and Head of government-backed taskforce on deforestation calls for new financial regulations to protect forests, as Financial Service and Markets Bill debated in Parliament

24 January 2023

Forests

The biodiversity crisis cannot end until governments tackle deforestation financing at home

15 December 2022

aerial shot of Illegal sawmill in Pheapimex logging concession, Prey Lang forest, Cambodia

Forests

MPs show cross-party support for ending the financing of deforestation in UK

12 December 2022

Fossil Fuels

Budget reaction: Chancellor turns blind eye to billions in energy profits that could support British public

17 November 2022

Fossil Fuels

BP 12-month profits of £23.4 billion could pay for 9.4 million UK energy bills

01 November 2022

Fossil Fuels

Energy giant Shell has already made £31bn in excess profits over past year

27 October 2022

Illustration showing financier office and gold coins next to deforested forest

Forests

Stop bankrolling deforestation

18 October 2022

Fossil Fuels

New UK oil and gas licences show a government “on the side of BP and Shell” rather than consumers struggling with bills

07 October 2022

Fossil Fuels

Shell and BP CEOs set to save a combined £640,000 through tax cuts, whilst average Brit saves just £400

26 September 2022

Fossil Fuels

Heating homes with gas is expensive. Heating with hydrogen could cost double

06 September 2022

Fossil Fuels

Gas companies’ plans for hydrogen heating could double energy bills, pushing €240bn bill for new pipelines on to consumers

06 September 2022

Forests

The UK's new PM has a "once in a generation" opportunity to make the UK a global green finance centre and curb deforestation

01 September 2022

Dmitry Kamyshev (left) co-chairs an Ingushneft board meeting with head of Ingushetia Mahmud-Ali Kalimatov

Fossil Fuels

As sanctions bite, Abramovich associate keeps Russian oil flowing to UK

11 July 2022

Fossil Fuels

BlackRock, Vanguard still holding shares of Russian fossil shipping giant

16 May 2022