Phoebe Cooke

About

Phoebe is a co-deputy editor at DeSmog UK, with a focus on European politics. She joined DeSmog in 2020, and was previously the organisation\’s senior reporter.

Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, Politico and Financial Times, Deutsche Welle and Irish investigative outlet The Journal. Phoebe is NCTJ-accredited. She holds a degree in German from Oxford University and a Masterโ€™s in environmental politics from Birkbeck.

onJan 22, 2021 @ 05:41 PST

Many of the worldโ€™s most polluting companies are being handed a โ€œget out of jail freeโ€ card by being invited to shape a scaled-up offsetting market, campaignersย claim. The Taskforce on Scaling Vol...
onJan 7, 2021 @ 05:06 PST

The governmentโ€™s decision not to block the UK's first deep coal mine for 30 years has prompted a major backlash from climateย campaigners. Woodhouse Colliery, a ยฃ165 million mine near the smallย por...
onDec 31, 2020 @ 16:00 PST

A calamitous year of lockdowns, tiers, and certainly tears, have left us reaching for 2021 like sun-starved plants in a darkenedย room. The last 12 months have also been a stark reminder of how f...
onDec 18, 2020 @ 08:12 PST

Campaigners are today celebrating a โ€œchanging tideโ€ after plans to extract 800,000 tonnes of coal in the North East wereย rejected.ย  A report for Newcastle City Council found the impact of an openc...
onDec 17, 2020 @ 03:14 PST

Parler is fast becoming a conservative echo-chamber but big name climate deniers don't seem to be abandoning mainstream social media for the fringe platform โ€” at least notย yet. An analysis by DeS...
onNov 19, 2020 @ 09:12 PST

Londonโ€™s City Hall is facing questions over its decision to hire a private intelligence firm known for monitoring environmental activists on behalf of fossil fuel companiesย without competitors bein...
onNov 12, 2020 @ 10:55 PST

Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney's initiative to grow the voluntary carbon market has been described as โ€œa dangerous distractionโ€ from the urgent need for major polluters to slash carbon...
onNov 10, 2020 @ 03:47 PST

Campaigners have accused the UK government of hypocrisy after ministers metย with fossil fuel producers almost 150 times as they prepared to โ€œbuild back greenerโ€ during the COVID-19ย pandemic. Newly...
onOct 7, 2020 @ 05:33 PDT

Heathrow Airport is today claiming that a controversial third runway could still comply with the UKโ€™s climate commitments, as it looks to overturn a landmark appealย verdict. The Supreme Court he...
onOct 1, 2020 @ 04:29 PDT

Oil company Equinor suggested to government officials that it could invest in the UKโ€™s natural carbon sinks in an apparent effort to secure its presence at the next UN climate talks, to be held in ...