Hackney Council as the climate vanguard – or is it just a laggard?
Hackney Council is voting tonight on its investment policy regarding fossil fuels and climate change. After years of campaigning by Divest Hackney and lots of media attention, this Tuesday is the big...
View ArticleUK High Court: Shell won’t answer for Nigeria spills
News just in: UK’s High Court has blocked a court case by 42,000 people in the Niger Delta seeking justice for Shell’s oil spills poisoning their land. The ruling could create a dangerous precedent,...
View ArticleUK-based and angry about #MuslimBan? Here’s 5 things to do.
UK people. Are you angry about Trump’s attempts to deport people from the US? Did you perhaps go to the Women’s March, or sign that oddly-worded petition about cancelling Trump’s visit? Well, we’ve got...
View ArticleBP funds homophobia: an open letter
BP has built a reputation for itself as a LGBTQ-friendly employer, with Pride floats, a Stonewall top employer badge, and recruitment events for LGBTQ students. But BP’s donations and deals also keep...
View ArticleAzerbaijan suspended by extractive industries governance watchdog
On 9 March 2017, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), an initiative set up to promote transparency and good governance in oil, gas and mining industries, suspended Azerbaijan for...
View ArticleArgentinian community defies BP and Petrobras to ban fracking
The Argentinian municipality of Vista Alegre is fighting to keep in place a fracking ban on top of some of the biggest tight oil and gas fields in the country. The municipal council of Vista Alegre...
View ArticleConversations with Suzi Gablik – Living in wartime.
I’ve recently returned from a visit to my friend and mentor, Suzi Gablik, in Virginia, USA. She has been an inspiration to so many over the past 33 years since the publication of ‘Has Modernism...
View ArticleBP’s solution to the climate crisis: switch to gas
Gas will solve the climate crisis. This was the main message that BP’s CEO Bob Dudley wanted to get across at today’s annual general shareholder meeting. And it’s dangerous… Bob Dudley, BP chief, says...
View ArticleCouncil workers’ largest trade union votes for divesting pensions
After two years of impressive mobilisation by UNISON grassroots members across England, Scotland and Wales, the trade union has officially taken on fossil fuel divestment policy. Yesterday the union’s...
View ArticleThere is no magic money tree, except for handouts for BP
The UK government paid oil companies $312 million to drill in the North Sea during the fiscal year 2016-2017 according to a new report by the HMRC, The Times reports. Successive UK governments insist...
View ArticleBribes, bulldozers and BP: what makes a gas mega pipeline?
Earlier this week, the Guardian’s Azerbaijani Laundromat investigation uncovered thousands of covert payments totaling £2.2bn from Azerbaijan’s ruling elite to prominent Europeans through a network of...
View ArticleThe River Resurfaces – reflecting on politically engaged art from the 1970s...
Joseph Beuys’ action – ‘I like America and America likes me’, (Coyote), photographed by Caroline Tisdall, New York, 1974 I’m sitting talking with Caroline Tisdall, a friend who has known Platform...
View ArticleBoom! – Historic Union Vote for Climate Transition
A worker led movement for climate justice came one step closer to reality yesterday as the UK trade union movement unanimously passed a motion calling for a just climate transition for workers,...
View ArticleHow would you measure our effectiveness?
A few weeks back, Matt Shardlow, CEO of Buglife, tweeted the chart underneath. It shows Platform apparently outstripping other UK environmental organisations in terms of our impact relative to our...
View ArticleThe Great Gas Lock-in
New Report out on the gas industry’s lobbying power This year we have seen devastating hurricanes and floods, deadly wildfires, and other extreme climate catastrophes. But rather than facing up to the...
View ArticleRevealed: UK council pensions are banking £16.1 billion on climate disaster
Today we’re releasing new data analysis showing that UK councils invest £16.1 billion in fossil fuel corporations through their workers’ pensions. These investments are bankrolling the companies most...
View ArticleToday, remembering the Ogoni Bill of Rights
Road to Justice. Artwork by Alfredo Jaar, Sokari Douglas Camp, designed by Jon Daniel. See below. 10th November 2017 marks the 22nd anniversary since the executions of nine Ogoni men from the Niger...
View ArticleNo TAP. No TANAP. Not here. Not anywhere.
Earlier this morning, a group of us demonstrated outside the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to demand that the bank rescinds its Oct 18th commitment to finance $500 for TANAP...
View Article‘How you would have loved these times’ – A conversation with Doreen Massey
Fieldfares in flight – migrating to Britain from the tundra with the coming of winter The days tip towards the darkness of Winter. The world of the North comes into our lives. The year stops and takes...
View ArticleTransitions Just and Unjust – the question of power
A’Chailleach, one of the peaks of the Fannich mountains We’re are descending from the peak of A’Chailleach. Trudging down the steep slope of Sron na Goibhre (Under the Mountain of the Goats) on the...
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