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Matthew Taylor

Matthew Taylor is an environment correspondent for the Guardian

May 2023

  • Climate activists protest in London against the Rosebank oilfield

    Norway under pressure to scale back fossil fuel expansion plans

    Campaigners say development of huge Rosebank field in North Sea would drive climate breakdown

March 2023

  • Keir Starmer being shown experimental carbon capture systems at Imperial College London

    Climate activists warn Labour it risks losing support of young voters

    Youth campaign group is calling on Keir Starmer’s party to commit to ‘decade of green new deal action’

September 2022

  • People waist deep in water

    Pakistan reels from floods: ‘We thought we’d die of hunger. Now we fear death from water’

    After record temperatures and drought, swaths of the country lie submerged, symptoms of a climate crisis its people play little part in
  • Just Stop Oil campaigners blockade the Kingsbury oil terminal.

    More than 50 Just Stop Oil protesters in UK sent to jail on one day

    Campaigners who blockaded Warwickshire oil terminal remanded for refusing to comply with court proceedings
  • Tthe Cuadrilla hydraulic fracturing site at Preston New Road shale gas exploration site in Lancashire.

    ‘A broken system’: campaigners urge Liz Truss to rethink energy plan

    Climate activists, anti-poverty groups and trade unionists plan wave of protests in autumn

August 2022

  • Anti-pollution protesters lay flowers outside the offices of the Silvertown tunnel contractor, Macquarie, in London in October last year

    London mayor urged to halt Silvertown tunnel scheme at 11th hour

  • Guterres said the huge profits were unacceptable as people around the world faced financial ruin.

    ‘Grotesque greed’: immoral fossil fuel profits must be taxed, says UN chief

July 2022

  • A protest outside the Science Museum in London in January

    Hundreds of teachers boycott Science Museum show over Adani sponsorship

  • Environmental campaigners from Just Stop Oil sitting in middle of red paint with police officer talking to them

    ‘People are waking up’: fight widens to stop new North Sea fossil fuel drilling

June 2022

  • RMT general secretary Mick Lynch and assistant general secretary Eddie Dempsey visit the picket line at Euston station.

    Train strikes: Boris Johnson calls union action ‘unnecessary’ amid second day of rail disruption – as it happened

  • Union members and rail workers join the picket line at Manchester Piccadilly train station.

    Climate justice groups join British rail strike picket lines

  • Christ Church chapel, Oxford, England.

    Christians in Oxford asked to commit to protecting environment

  • Jeremy Corbyn speaking into megaphone

    Jeremy Corbyn unites with direct action group Just Stop Oil

  • Africa must forgo gas exploration to avert climate disaster, warn experts

  • Climate policy dragged into culture wars as a ‘delay’ tactic, finds study

  • Carbon bombs
    Environmentalists join forces to fight ‘carbon bomb’ fossil fuel projects

  • Climate activists vow to fight as new gasfield gets go-ahead in North Sea

May 2022

  • Activists display prints replicating solar panels during a rally to mark Earth Day in Washington, USA

    ‘World is at boiling point’: humanity must redefine relationship with nature, says report

    Stockholm institute calls for ‘bold science-based decision-making’ to tackle climate, social and economic crises
  • Condensation trails of airplanes are seen in the sky

    Johnson’s ‘jet zero’ plan unrealistic and may make UK miss CO2 targets – report

    Ministers instead urged to focus on reducing flights and halting airport expansion to cut carbon emissions
  • The International Energy Agency's executive director, Fatih Birol

    Carbon bombs
    Climate chaos certain if oil and gas mega-projects go ahead, warns IEA chief

    Fatih Birol says ‘carbon bombs’, revealed in Guardian investigation, will not solve global energy crisis
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