Every Week Should Be Climate Week

Someone somewhere has decreed that it is Climate Week in the UK, and that means allowing some big corporations to pretend they give a damn in one of the biggest greenwashed PR events of all time.

Schools, businesses and community groups are being encouraged to hold events from pub quizzes (!) to film nights in a bid to raise awareness of climate change amongst their pupils, staff and members.

And I have absolutely no problem with that. Awareness should be raised, particularly since opinion polls show that the public are increasingly sceptical about climate change.

What I do have a problem with is the "sponsors" that have been chosen to help with Climate Week. They're front and centre on the home page:

The one that is sticking in most people's throats the most is RBS, the bank that used to boast about it's connections to the oil industry and which has provided finance worth €8 billion to the coal industry in the last two years.

But hey, they must be green because they're providing a wee bit of (our own) money for Climate Week.

The government should be promoting the awareness of climate change every week, and without the corporate sponsorship.