Camden Greenpeace 🌍

FUN FACT: Onshore wind and solar could provide enough electricity to power ALL homes in England TWO AND A HALF times over. And England could produce 13 TIMES more renewable energy than it does, using LESS than 3% of land. Who else supports MORE renewables?

BREAKING: the legal challenge for the West Cumbria coal mine starts today - even though the government has pulled out its legal defence. This coal mine must be stopped. It would produce 2.78 million tonnes a year, blowing a massive hole in the UK's climate commitments

🚨GOOD NEWS: The Science Museum has dropped oil giant Equinor as a sponsor over its climate policies. Fossil fuel companies are trying to clean up their image by sponsoring culture. Thanks to groups like @Cult_Unstained and @ScientistsX this is becoming a thing of the past.

Getting ready for the Holborn and St Pancras climate & nature hustings! Come along to the St Pancras New Church to hear from the candidates from 19-21.30 #HolbornClimateHustings

🚨 NEW ACTION ALERT !! Right now, our local candidates for MP are LISTENING to our needs. They want to WIN our votes. So let's grab this opportunity and TELL THEM that climate & nature MATTER to us. Together, we can PUSH the future of our planet up the agenda! 🌍

Last night’s #SkyDebate featured NOT ONE MENTION OF CLIMATE Meanwhile, heatwaves and extreme weather are ravaging India, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, & Spain. The climate crisis is HERE - but our leaders couldn’t even mention it once?

renewables are the cheapest form of energy renewables are the cheapest form of energy renewables are the cheapest form of energy for the people at the back of the #BBCDebate RENEWABLES ARE THE CHEAPEST FORM OF ENERGY

BREAKING 🚨: The former chief exec of BP has called for an END to new oil licenses in the North Sea. If the former boss of an OIL GIANT can see how North Sea drilling won’t do anything to help bring down bills then why can’t ALL politicians?

Join us for our monthly meeting tomorrow to find out about upcoming actions! 🗓️ Wednesday 5 June 🕓 7pm for new members, 7.30pm for everyone else 📌 Online (details on Greenwire)

How does the UK compare to the rest of Europe after 14 years of this government? Some of the coldest homes❌ Some of the priciest rail fares❌ We’re now the private jet capital of Europe❌ Among the worst for beach and river water quality❌ Anyone else think we deserve better?

🚨 NEW ACTION 🚨 With a general election on 4th July, the clock's ticking on party manifestos. This is our chance to be heard! Labour's leading in the polls, so we're calling on leader Keir Starmer to be clear on climate & nature. Join us → act.gp/3Kip7KT

SHOCKING FACT: This government's FAILURE to insulate homes is COSTING bill payers £3.2 BILLION A YEAR. This election we need ALL parties to offer climate solutions so we can have WARMER homes, LOWER bills and a HEALTHIER planet. Who agrees?

‘SHELL KILLS’ sing activists with @fossilfreeLDN at the company’s AGM, calling out their climate destruction. Shell continues to expand oil and gas, despite knowing this will push the world PAST what it can handle. We MUST stop them. Our lives depend on it. #ShellKills #ShellAGM2024 #ShutdownShell #StopFossilGas #StopDrillingStartPaying

🚨 BREAKING: We’ve just been to court to defend ourselves against Shell. Shell is suing us for millions of dollars for a peaceful climate protest and now they're trying to remove important facts from our defence. So we had to go to court to challenge them. Who’s with us? 💪🏾

Join the Camden Greenpeace monthly meeting today and find out what we get up to! 📆 Wednesday 1 May 🕑 7pm for new joiners, 7.30pm for everyone else 📌 Online (check Greenwire for details) See you there!

“Home Office to detain asylum seekers across UK in shock Rwanda operation” - is there no end to the performative cruelty of this obscene, inhumane Govt? So much misery just for electoral advantage? On election day, show them Britain is better than this theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

🚨 BREAKING: Taxing fossil fuel giants could raise £580 BILLION to support the world’s most vulnerable facing climate damages, a new report finds. Tax. Big. Oil. Now.

Just a very normal democratic country, doing very normal democratic things...

One in 300 people in the UK took part in The #BigPlasticCount. And this is what we found 👉 🧋 1.7 billion pieces of plastic thrown away EVERY WEEK 🔥 58% of our plastic waste is BURNED ♻️ Only 17% is recycled! bbc.co.uk/newsround/6882…

🎉GOOD NEWS: The European Court of Human Rights has ruled IN FAVOUR of a group of Swiss pensioners who argued that weak government climate policies put them at greater risk from heatwaves. This LANDMARK DECISION will allow more people to hold their governments to account!