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.

onJul 6, 2020 @ 16:01 PDT

Elon Musk, Greta Thunberg, Rishi Sunak, Donald Trump โ€” trees suddenly have an eclectic mix of fans, all drawn to the apparent simplicity of their carbon-locking power. Now Big Oil has joined the pa...
onJul 2, 2020 @ 02:01 PDT

Activists are celebrating an โ€œincredibleโ€ victory after a bid to extend a coal mine in County Durham was finallyย scrapped. Plans to dig up an additional 90,000 tonnes of coal from the site of the ...
onMar 6, 2020 @ 05:18 PST

Activists are preparing to take the Government to court over itsย โ€œout of tuneโ€ planning policy in a challenge inspired by the watershed Heathrowย ruling. Three claimants - Guardian journalist Georg...
onFeb 27, 2020 @ 04:53 PST

Campaigners today hailed an โ€œhistoricโ€ victory for the climate after three judges ruled expansion plans for Heathrow Airportย unlawful. Activists erupted into cheers at the Royal Courts of Justice ...
onFeb 12, 2020 @ 01:15 PST

Itโ€™s 5pm on a dismal Monday and commuters are scurrying past Parliament on their way home. In the fast-fading light itโ€™s easy to miss a solitary teenager perched on a wet ledge and holding up a car...