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 Master’s in environmental politics from Birkbeck.

onJan 7, 2021 @ 05:06 PST

The government’s decision not to block the UK's first deep coal mine for 30 years has prompted a major backlash from climate campaigners. Woodhouse Colliery, a £165 million mine near the small 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 darkened 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 “changing tide” after plans to extract 800,000 tonnes of coal in the North East were rejected.  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 — at least not yet. An analysis by DeS...
onNov 19, 2020 @ 09:12 PST

London’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 companies 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 “a dangerous distraction” 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 met with fossil fuel producers almost 150 times as they prepared to “build back greener” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Newly...
onOct 7, 2020 @ 05:33 PDT

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

Oil company Equinor suggested to government officials that it could invest in the UK’s natural carbon sinks in an apparent effort to secure its presence at the next UN climate talks, to be held in ...
onSep 18, 2020 @ 04:53 PDT

A top banking prize awarded to “the world’s worst financier of climate chaos” has prompted major backlash from campaigners. More than 20 international environmental groups are demanding a retracti...