Brendan Montague

Brendan Montague is editor of The Ecologist, founder of Request Initiative and co-author of Impact of Market Forces on Addictive Substances and Behaviours: The web of influence of addictive industries (Oxford University Press). He tweets at @EcoMontague.

  • Campaigners welcome nuclear weapons ban

    Brendan Montague
     | 19th January 2021
    Boris Johnson should take heed as UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons comes into force on Friday, 22 January 2021.

  • We can't bank on climate action

    Brendan Montague
     | 9th December 2020
    Bank of England forced to deny taking basic climate actions after hoax from laughtervists, the Yes Men.

  • Catastrophic costs of California wildfires

    Brendan Montague
     | 7th December 2020
    More than 8,500 separate fires burned during 2018 in California, making them the deadliest and most destructive of any year in the state’s history. 

  • Boris green industrial revolution 'a rehash'

    Emily Beament
    Brendan Montague
     | 18th November 2020
    Funding will not 'remotely meet the scale of what’s needed to tackle the unemployment emergency and climate emergency we are facing'.
  • Coins and seedlings

    How to launch a green bank

    Brendan Montague
     | 12th November 2020
    C40 Cities launches new guide showcasing the role of city green banks in driving a green and just recovery from COVID-19.

  • Boris failing on climate targets

    Brendan Montague
     | 9th November 2020
    Boris Johnson's Tory government yet to deliver the scale of investment needed to lead the world towards a low carbon future.

  • Bankrolling extinction

    Brendan Montague
     | 28th October 2020
    The global banks financing industries driving biodiversity collapse.

  • Boris gets a second wind

    Shaun Connolly
    Brendan Montague
     | 6th October 2020
    The Prime Minister will say the coronavirus crisis should be used as a catalyst to make the UK world leader in clean power generation.
  • Footprint

    Discovery of a new mass extinction

    Brendan Montague
     | 17th September 2020
    Scientists identify great extinction event that had a major role in helping to reset life on land and in the oceans.

  • Public wants radical climate action

    Emily Beament
    Brendan Montague
     | 10th September 2020
    The UK’s first citizens’ assembly has now established beyond doubt that the public want radical action to prevent climate breakdown.
  • Sun through the trees

    Rewilding better than tree planting

    Brendan Montague
     | 7th September 2020
    Rewilding Britain supports a doubling of the country’s woodland cover over the next decade, from 13 percent now to at least 26 percent.
  • Cantonese food in China

    Multinationals driving climate breakdown

    Brendan Montague
     | 4th September 2020
    'If the world’s leading companies exercised leadership on climate change they could have a transformative effect on global efforts to reduce emissions.'
  • XR x Exxon

    XR v Exxon

    Brendan Montague
     | 28th August 2020
    Eco-activists demonstrate outside ExxonMobil’s HQ to demand end to oil production and greenwashing.
  • Hurricane Irma

    Hurricanes in Caribbean to increase

    Brendan Montague
     | 28th August 2020
    Caribbean particularly vulnerable to climate breakdown with extreme hurricane rainfall five times more likely in a warmer world.
  • Water

    Action on water security

    Brendan Montague
     | 24th August 2020
    Covid-19 pandemic should be a wake-up call for water security.
  • Twyford Rising

    Twyford Down protests re-lived in new book

    Brendan Montague
     | 20th August 2020
    Twyford Rising is not just a great story, but helps us understand today’s protests and is packed with inspiration for current campaigners.
  • Loggin in Manu national park

    Voices on the road

    Brendan Montague
     | 14th August 2020
    New documentary on indigenous rights and the future of the Amazon launches online.
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