Category Archives: Extinction Rebellion

Croydon’s links with Gatwick ‘incompatible’ with carbon target

Posted on September 14, 2019 by

Environmental activists have reacted with disbelief and barely disguised scorn at the announcement that Croydon Council has accepted a £75,000 sponsorship from Gatwick Airport for the borough’s newest youth centre. Extinction Rebellion protests around the capital earlier this year brought … Continue reading →

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Gatwick buys council’s silence over air pollution with £75,000

Posted on September 13, 2019 by

A matter of weeks after grandstanding in the Town Hall chamber over a vacuous declaration of a climate emergency in Croydon, Tony Newman has linked one of the council’s youth centres to a sponsorship deal with… Gatwick Airport. Newman’s latest … Continue reading →

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Dombey defeated as Sutton goes for zero carbon by 2030

Posted on July 23, 2019 by

Sutton Council last night voted for zero emissions in the borough by 2030 – at least 15 years before the £1bn contract with Viridor for the incinerator at Beddington is due to end. BELLE MONT crunches the numbers Extinction Rebellion … Continue reading →

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£1.2bn council fund told it can’t invest in green schemes

Posted on July 15, 2019 by

When he was Chancellor, Gideon Osborne was widely criticised for not introducing more environmentally friendly economic policies, and years after he stepped down his influence remains a drag on the green ambitions of the Town Hall pension committee, as KEN … Continue reading →

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Climate emergency comes to Sutton in ‘fast fashion’ protest

Posted on July 15, 2019 by

Slowly, the message is getting across. Outside Sutton’s St Nicholas Centre on Saturday, one woman was in tears. “We’ve ruined our planet,” she said, speaking to Extinction Rebellion activists. “It’s not fair on our children.” Extinction Rebellion Sutton was established … Continue reading →

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Newman discovers climate emergency but offers little to fix it

Posted on June 28, 2019 by

Our environment correspondent, PAUL LUSHION, was at the council’s ‘sustainability summit’ – staged in an unsustainable venue where guests were drinking from single-use cardboard cups – and found it to be full of contradictions Tony Newman, the Labour leader of … Continue reading →

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Extinction Rebellion wants council to call a climate emergency

Posted on June 14, 2019 by

As PETER UNDERWOOD reports, CROXR is pressing the Town Hall to make changes to its environmental policies It’s a stereotypically British thing to talk about the weather. So it’s no surprise that the torrential rain has been the main topic … Continue reading →

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