Taxation

We need progressive governments that make people's real lives better - and then we will win support for environmental policies.

Andy Burnham, the prime minister and leader of the Labour Party, wants cheap, popular policies. Well, only seven per cent of voters support the current low tax on private jet fuel.

Stunt outside supermarket as food prices jump and oil giants' profits soar.

How Rachel Reeves could introduce a meat tax in her budget and curb climate emissions and improve public health.

Jobs are being cut and climate impacts are ramping up. The frequent flyer levy has never been more urgent.

More than 200 experts use Europe Day to call for systemic changes to deal with the climate crisis, species extinction and inequality

Environmentalists had waited with baited breath for the Chancellor's 2007 Budget. Gordon Brown had intimated that it would be the 'greenest ever'. In fact, it was a resounding disappointment.

'A common price for carbon' has become the soundbite of the forward-looking 'green' politician. It pleases everyone, not least business, which can plan ahead by looking at the carbon 'market'. But is it the best way to proceed?

The Conservative party has unveiled new taxes on aviation in a bid to control increasing carbon dioxide emissions from the sector.

The Chancellor's pre-budget report on Wednesday 6th December was a green-washed shambles. Paul Kingsnorth gives Gordon a helping hand with the re-write

In the first of the Ecologist's new 'If I...' series, the co-founder of aviation campaign group Plane Stupid imagines what he would do if he were in charge of the government's aviation policy.