The UK claims to be a climate leader, but the truth behind where our tax money goes tells a different story.
Muna and Louisa are joined by Adam McGibbon, an investigator with Global Witness. They discuss how UK tax money is being used to damage our climate and destroy the communities and livelihoods of those most impacted by climate breakdown. They also hear from Ilham Rawoot of Friends of the Earth Mozambique, who's part of a team fighting a damaging gas project in Cabo Delgado.
Our rivers and seas are full of sewage but instead of cleaning them up, the UK government want to unravel the rules that protect the environment. If we want safeguard people and nature, we need to keep these legal protections in place. Find out what’s at risk.
Glastonbury Friends of the Earth campaigns for protection of the environment in a variety of ways to make a difference locally, nationally, and globally.
In summer 2021, in a ground-breaking ruling, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its emissions by 45% by 2030.
The case was brought by Friends of the Earth Netherlands, alongside 17,000 co-plaintiffs and other organisations.
In this episode, Fran and Finn speak to Nine de Pater from Friends of the Earth Netherlands to hear about the case and how these changes can have a wide impact on our planet.
How to Save the Planet podcast will be taking a short break. We'll be back with more interviews in 2022. Thanks for listening!
Over the past decade, a little known government agency has been using UK taxpayers’ money to finance oil and gas projects abroad. We look at what this means for local communities and climate breakdown.
Across the UK, incinerators are being given the green light by councils. With low-income and minority communities disproportionately bearing the brunt of the pollution coming from these wood and waste-burning plants, Shaista Hussain looks at one city’s battle to protect local people from a new incinerator.
Our special bonus episode comes hot on the heels of Friends of the Earth's historic win in the Court of Appeal. On Thursday 27 February, government plans to expand Heathrow airport were ruled illegal, on the grounds that they did not full consider the climate impacts of the project.
But what happens now, and what does this ruling mean for holding the government to account on their promises to take climate action?
Muna and Louisa chat through some of the wider implications with Friends of the Earth lawyer, Katie de Kauwe, who has been working on the case.
