Happy New Year!
2025 was quite a year for the Weald Action Group. We saw continuing impacts of our 2024 Supreme Court win, and renewed debate on the topic of fracking. We also laid the foundations of a new campaign on methane.
The year saw some positive developments – including a landmark opinion on climate change from the International Court of Justice (see below) and a commitment by the UK government to end new oil and gas licensing, both on and offshore. However it also saw the intensification of climate impacts around the world, from fires and floods to the failure of farming systems. In October, scientists warned that the Earth had reached the first catastrophic climate tipping point, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’, and is ‘on the brink’ of reaching other tipping points, including the dieback of the Amazon, the collapse of major ocean currents and the loss of ice sheets. This underlines the extreme urgency of stopping producing and burning fossil fuels – the root cause of human-made global warming.
Here we look back at some highlights from our campaigning year – and send thanks to everyone who has been part of it.