News: climate justice

It’s 2025… now what?

January 17, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

Lack of action is a death sentence for millions of people, including people right here in the UK. XRUK on 2025, at a glance: It’s now official that in 2024, global average temperatures exceeded the target limit of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Meanwhile, the mega rich billionaires in the world…

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After the floods – hunger and wrecked lives

October 29, 2024 by Extinction Rebellion

Six protestors arrested as insurer’s office is chalk-sprayed, the famous Gherkin building is occupied and insurance CEOs are branded climate criminals by a video van tour of the City of London as day two of Extinction Rebellion’s Insure Our Survival week hits the streets.

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The floods are here!

October 28, 2024 by Extinction Rebellion

A pink boat sailed through the City of London as hundreds of Extinction Rebellion activists occupied world-famous buildings, staged climate crime scenes and mass die-ins and marched to demand insurers stop insuring climate breakdown. The actions kicked off a week of mass protests in the capital and across the UK calling on the insurance industry to stop insuring fossil fuel criminals who are heating up the planet and flooding our homes.

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Insurers given 14 days to dump fossil fuel criminals

October 14, 2024 by Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion announces its Insure Our Survival campaign by issuing an ultimatum letter to insurance industry bosses as the movement prepares a week of protests and actions in London and across the UK. Senior executives have been warned: “Make a pledge to get out of new oil, coal and gas – or face actions and protests.”

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XRUK statement on the riots

August 06, 2024 by Extinction Rebellion

The rioting and looting scarring our streets and terrorising some of our most vulnerable communities has shocked us all to the core. Extinction Rebellion UK is devastated by these callous acts of violence and we are all left fearful for the wellbeing and safety of our friends.     XRUK stands in solidarity with all…

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Climate Activists Support Port Talbot Steel Workers for Worker-Led Green Transition

June 17, 2024 by Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion (XR), Extinction Rebellion Cymru and other climate justice groups join the workers of the Tata steel plant in Port Talbot, south Wales,

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“Stop the New Scramble for Africa!”

May 15, 2024 by Extinction Rebellion

>> Photos of the protest at the Africa Energies Summit Extinction Rebellion and allies protest at global energy conference as fossil fuel crooks gather in London to plan the plunder of Africa’s oil and gas resources Fossil fuel bosses and government officials from the UK and countries across Africa were confronted…

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House of Commons lobby targeted by Extinction Rebellion to protest against UK’s role in violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

February 20, 2024 by Extinction Rebellion

What are the dangerous and shadowy links between the UK Government’s Rwanda flights and a heartbreaking war over resources in Africa that is also fuelling the climate crisis and destroying vital ecosystems? Today Extinction Rebellion activists answered that complex question as they staged a protest in the House of Commons pretending to hold guns to their heads and unfurling a banner saying: ‘STOP FUNDING RWANDA WAR IN D.R. CONGO.’

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Extreme flooding 2024: XR UK’s position

January 16, 2024 by Extinction Rebellion

Recent UK floods have made it clear the authorities and their client media currently have no intention of saving us from the worst impacts of the climate and ecological crisis.

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