Environment Campaigns

AirportWatch, in collaboration with scores of local campaign groups across the country, have recently launched their Rethink campaign calling for the Government’s aviation policy to be scrapped.

For the 600 million stray and unwanted dogs around the world, suffering and death are never far away. WSPA aims to reduce the number of stray animals and combat inhumane treatment through its Stray Control projects. Find out more.

Radioactive champagne, near nuclear meltdowns, leaked terrorism documents and a nuclear waste train crash... In the same month that Tony Blair announced nuclear power was 'back on the agenda with a vengeance', events in the real world put the lie to nuclear industry spin, says Greenpeace.
Greenpeace activist exposes nuclear threat

What business does a chemical company have between your bedroom sheets? Should chemical companies be meddling with the protection of your health? The chemical industry is fighting hard to protect their privilege to make hazardous chemicals with the potential to seriously affect both your sex life and personal health.

Major waste companies are claiming that incineration produces ‘green’ and ‘renewable’ energy, but new research shows that a standard British waste to energy incinerator produces more carbon dioxide from fossil fuels than a gas-fired power station. Find out more about Waste: incineration and landfill.

All the major political parties say climate change is the biggest threat we face. They all have ambitious targets for cutting the main cause of it - carbon dioxide gas. Yet emissions of carbon dioxide keep on rising. Ask your MP to support a new law to cut carbon dioxide every year by 3% from now on.
*The Big Ask campaign

The Chemical Home is Greenpeace’s interactive website which shows you how man-made chemicals find their way into your body, and what we can do to force manufacturers to clean up their act.

US congress is actively killing America’s first offshore wind farm, says Greenpeace, which urges you to take action now.

New Greenpeace research shows that McDonald's are partners in forest crime that is creating a trail of destruction right into the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

Donate computer power you’re not using, and take part in the BBC’s climate experiment.

British High Street retailers, DIY stores and leading brands are misleading the public into buying illegal timber stolen from the forests of Indonesia’s remote Papua Province, reveals the Environmental Investigation Agency and their Indonesian partner, Telapak.
* Forests for the world campaign

As ExxonMobil announces record profits of US$32 billion in 2005, evidence that global warming is gathering pace is rapidly piling up. While most oil companies are making huge profits, what Exxon does -- and doesn't do -- with those profits is what marks them out as the world's number one climate criminal, says Greenpeace. Have a word with the new Exxon boss.

Combat Bush's obduracy and Tony Blair's backsliding on climate change and global warming, by writing to them.

Shrimp farming is one of the causes of the loss of mangrove forests which contributed to the high death toll in the tsunami. It also creates seroius local environmental problems. You can sigh a petition requesting to European and American shrimp importers to insist on higher standards from their suppliers.

One of the problems of globalisation is that individual countries plead impotence in taking painful measures unless others do the same. This is often an excuse for doing nothing, especially on environmental issues. Simultaneous Policy is an innovative concept which commits politicians to overcome this defensive mindset. See what you think.

Very few universities can claim brownie points for their environmental performance. This is unlikely to change until the students themselves take action.

Action to prevent climate change requires more efficient methods of heating our homes. One approach is to encourage conventional heating fuel suppliers to source energy from biomass crops. Email your MP to support the Renewable Heat Bill.

The average council in the UK recycles waste at less than half the rate of opposite numbers in Europe. And some councils are significantly worse than that. Find out how your council is performing and encourage some improvement.

Do you want to see the widespread planting of GM crops in the UK? Persuade your MP to sign the Early Day Motion for legislation to prevent GM contamination.

The World Bank is engaged in rebuilding the economy of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Plans for logging massive areas of rainforest appear to be unsustainable and take no account of the interests of people who live there. Join the campaign.