Climate Breakdown

Greenpeace shuts down 100 Barclays branches demanding it stops its support for oil, gas and coal companies.

Tories ban on new onshore wind farms finally lifted to allow new renewable energy revolution.

Members of Extinction Rebellion Glasgow and partner groups from Renfrewshire and East Dunbartonshire dressed in blue and green to represent rising water.

Greta Thunberg, the 17-year-old climate activist, addresses a crowd of 30,000 in Bristol to mark the city's 10th youth climate strike.

Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate will begin with speeches, including one by the 17-year-old, on College Green at 11am.

'I am enormously excited and honoured to be sharing a stage with Greta.'

Here is a rundown on the Swedish teenager's stunning rise to fame.

'The bell is tolling on the carbon economy loud and clear.'

Extinction Rebellion promises 40 days' protest during the Christian period of Lent which begins today.

The 17-year-old Swede will be joining the Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate on College Green on February 28.

Extinction Rebellion's 2020 plan is to recruit one million active supporters in the UK.

Protesters, including children as young as two, staged the peaceful demonstration at the Making The Modern World gallery in the Science Museum.

A handful of UK institutions have already banned meat products, while others are cutting down.

Government new homes measures will not cut emissions enough, or reduce risk of overheating, flooding and water shortages.

Methane emissions from fossil fuels owing to human activity is around 25 percent to 40 percent higher than thought