Flying in the face of climate leadership: protesting private jets at Farnborough airport
Residents, campaigners, pollution experts and politicians gathered at Farnborough Airport to protest increases in private jet flights.
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Climate campaigners disrupt insurance brokers’ conference for third year
Extinction Rebellion's Insure Our Survival campaign kept up the pressure on delegates to the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) - Europe’s largest insurance brokers conference - with a colourful, day-long dramatic protest demanding they boycott deals with fossil fuel insurers and fossil fuel projects.
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Climate protectors accused of breaking News UK windows to go on trial
Five people go on trial on Monday 12 May at Southwark Crown Court for alleged conspiracy to commit criminal damage at the headquarters of News UK (formerly News International) in July 2022. Two carefully broke windows while the other three flyposted newspaper articles. The Sun, The Times and other News UK outlets are suppressing facts about the climate crisis and peddling climate delayism. We need an urgent media revolution so people are told the truth about the climate emergency leading to more ambitious action.
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Join XRUK at Lakenheath Alliance For Peace
Join XRUK at the camp organised by Lakenheath Alliance For Peace, culminating in a blockade of the largest US airbase in Europe.
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Protestors blockade Farnborough Airport to protest plans to double private jet flights
Local residents and climate activists blocked Farnborough Airport this week to protest against the proposed expansion of the airport which will almost double the number of private jet flights to 70,000 a year, in a move which blatantly ignores the climate crisis.
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XRUK Strategy 2025-26
As XRUK has evolved, so has our ability to dedicate time and energy to the depth of thought and work that the movement needs and deserves in its strategy. This strategy is rooted in research and evidence, built on the reality of what this movement is at this time – not what it used to…
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Insure Our Survival – how the week unfolded
As climate floods in Spain claimed hundreds of lives, thousands of us demanded insurers stop enabling the industries that are destroying our world. Our week of action against the insurance industry starting 28 October 2024 was part of an ongoing international campaign which is forcing the sector to pull the plug on the fossil fuel…
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What has conflict got to do with the climate and ecological crisis?
Climate change increases the likelihood of violent conflicts, creating a cycle in which conflict impedes countries’ efforts to reduce carbon emissions and adapt to climate change. At the same time, violent conflict directly exacerbates climate change and contributes to ecological degradation. “Climate change can indirectly increase risks of violent conflicts in the form of civil…
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Judge trying climate defenders questions existence and severity of climate crisis as UN urges courts “to listen to what environmental defenders have to say”
In his directions to the jury in the JPMorgan window breakers case yesterday, Judge Reid cast doubt on the existence and severity of the climate crisis. Judge Reid expressed his doubts about the reality and severity of the climate and ecological crisis, which is already seeing millions displaced, starving, injured and dead, on the same day as the United Nations Special Rapporteur, Michel Forst, released his latest report, State repression of environmental protest and civil disobedience: a major threat to human rights and democracy.
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Ffos-Y-Fran Four charges dropped after ‘illegal coal mine’ fails to cooperate with court
The Crown Prosecution Service has dropped all charges against the four Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists who blockaded the entrance to the UK’s largest open-cast coal mine, last summer with a pink boat. While removing the immediate burden of legal confrontation for the defendants, the decision has left a “crater of unfinished business” in the fight for climate justice and accountability for local residents.
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