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Compassionate Organising
Exploring barriers to participation in climate action faced by folks who experience racial and/or social marginalisation.
11 Apr 2023 emma -
Off The Deep End – Foreign Policy and the dash for offshore oil and gas
This Platform report provides in-depth analysis of these trends and alerts policy makers to the environmental and safety concerns around present and planned offshore drilling in the UK North Sea and the Falkland Islands. It exposes significant capacity shortfalls in government inspection agencies and highlights key areas where better regulatory oversight is urgently required to…
10 Jan 2011 anna -
Liberate Tate Collected Works 2010 – Postcard Set
A set of eight postcards capturing the key performance moments of 2010 in Liberate Tate's artistic interventions in oil sponsorship. The beautiful images in high quality print postcards include performance details and quotes from key commentators in the debate around oil sponsorship of the arts. The stories of intervention into the issue travel around…
30 Dec 2010 Mel -
No Condition is Permanent, 19 Poets on Climate Justice and Change
No Condition is Permanent features writing and poetry specially selected and written for PLATFORM’s season C Words: Carbon, Climate, Capital, Culture, which took place at Arnolfini, Bristol, October and November 2009. It takes its title from the packed night of performance and music which took place on November 7th in Arnolfini’s main gallery. C Words was a…
7 Nov 2010 jane -
A Bank for the Future: Maximising public investment in a low-carbon economy
The recent financial crisis cost the UK £129 billion in annual GDP and increased the structural deficit by £93 billion. The initial budget cuts announced by the coalition government demonstrate the pain this is causing to public services. The UK can’t afford another meltdown, yet short term, high risk, carbon intensive investments are still business…
25 Jun 2010 anna -
Licence To Spill
This short publication looks at how oil companies need and use sponsorship of the arts.
20 Jun 2010 Mel -
A Lake of Oil: Congo’s contracts escalate conflict, pollution & poverty
A Lake of Oil analyses confidential oil contracts held by UK companies Tullow and Heritage in the Democratic Republic of Congo that were leaked by Platform, revealing the danger of economic rip-off and rights abuses in one of Africa’s most unstable countries.
17 May 2010 anna -
Cashing in on Tar Sands: RBS, UK banks and Canada’s “blood oil”
Tar sands extraction in Canada is devastating Indigenous communities, wildlife and vast areas of boreal forests, as well as being many times more carbon-intensive to produce than ‘conventional’ oil. The higher oil prices in recent years have meant that it’s become a more attractive prospect for oil companies to expand their operations in the costly…
28 Feb 2010 Kevin -
Contracts Curse: Uganda’s oil agreements place profit before people
Held secret by the Ugandan government and oil companies Tullow and Heritage, Platform has revealed the terms of the contracts for oil operations by Lake Albert on the Uganda-Congo border, and their economic implications. For the first time, Uganda’s Production Sharing Agreements are available to the public to read, after a leaked copy was placed…
18 Feb 2010 anna -
Towards a Royal Bank of Sustainability: protecting taxpayers’ interests; cutting carbon risk
This report has been commissioned by People & Planet, World Development Movement, Platform, Friends of the Earth Scotland, and BankTrack to investigate whether and how the Government should align its recent investment in the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) with social and environmental objectives, in particular to combat climate change. Although many of its recommendations…
19 Oct 2009 anna
