Economics and policy

Dozens of activists are sitting or standing in the road as City workers leave Bank tube station.

Rural families in Bangladesh spend almost two billion dollars a year on preventing climate related disasters and repairing the damage.

Major high street banks among investors driving billions of dollars into companies involved in deforestation.

The Labour party conference adopted the most radical climate policy of any in a G20 economy - but there will be battles ahead: with the leadership, and with union bosses.

Labour for a Green New Deal has successfully campaigned to have an ambitious motion for net-zero emissions by 2030 adopted by Labour Conference. Here's how.

Nearly £150 billion invested in fossil fuels by UK banks since Paris Agreement.

Investment services are going unaccounted for in the fight against climate crisis, but with awareness comes action.

Frontline communities are showing the way to a 'post-extractive' renewable energy transition that is socially just and ecologically viable.

The Green New Deal has been put top of the agenda for this year’s Labour Party Conference.

Labour for a Green New Deal is hosting a rally at the Labour conference this year to demand a bold response to climate breakdown.

Profit should not come at any price, particularly investments with a long time horizon, such as your pension.

Plan to restore and rewild 25 percent of the UK to combat climate crisis put forward by progressive think tank Common Wealth.

This climate emergency affects us all - but it’s up to all of us to ensure that the Global South doesn’t continue to take the biggest hit.

Barclays is one of the largest investors in fossil fuels, and has £15.6 billion of assets in oil, gas and coal extradition globally.

This week the heads of state of the economies that comprise the Group of 7 gather in France to discuss the critical issues of our time – with the stated focus of fighting inequality.