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.

onSep 18, 2020 @ 04:53 PDT

A top banking prize awarded to โ€œthe worldโ€™s worst financier of climate chaosโ€ has prompted major backlash fromย campaigners. More than 20 international environmental groups are demanding a retracti...
onSep 14, 2020 @ 06:58 PDT

Former Tory MP and prominent climate science denier Neil Hamilton has been appointed UKIPโ€™s interimย leader. A member of the Welsh Parliament and its climate change, environment and rural affairs c...
onSep 10, 2020 @ 10:00 PDT

Controversial talks by a climate science denier have been axed by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) after mounting pressure fromย members. The IETโ€™s London branch was set to hold ...
onSep 10, 2020 @ 07:49 PDT

The UKโ€™s first ever Climate Assembly has called for an end to cross-party fighting as it presented its vision for a โ€œnet zeroโ€ future in a newย report. More than 100 participants from a cross-secti...
onSep 9, 2020 @ 05:02 PDT

Campaigners are celebrating a โ€œmassive victoryโ€ after plans to extract nearly three million tonnes of coal from Northumberlandโ€™s Druridge Bay were rejected onceย again. Last night, Communities Secr...
onSep 8, 2020 @ 16:01 PDT

Coal-burning countries could benefit from billions in EU funding even as they fail in their climate commitments, a new reportย shows. Every member state is required to phase out coal entirely by 20...
onSep 3, 2020 @ 02:21 PDT

Indigenous campaigners have vowed to โ€œfight until the endโ€ after a lawsuit to suspend Ecuadorโ€™s oil operations was thrown out ofย court. An estimated 27,000 people were left without safe water, fis...
onAug 20, 2020 @ 22:01 PDT

Trade unions are calling for the government to put regional voices at the heart of its climate strategy - or risk catastrophicย consequences. Meeting the UKโ€™s 2050 net-zero target requires a โ€œreset...
onAug 12, 2020 @ 05:48 PDT

Communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon are calling for an end to โ€œviolence against Indigenous peoples and natureโ€ as a trial into a devastating oil spill resumesย today.ย  The Kichwa and Shuar tribes ...
onJul 22, 2020 @ 05:20 PDT

Climate activists are planning to take the government to court over its COVID-19 bailout package, as they urge the UK to face up to its responsibility to tackle climateย change. Plan B, a climate l...