A real streak of fairness: Rebecca Hardy attends a climate assembly at Friends House

‘We need to tell different stories.’

by Rebecca Hardy 26th September 2025

‘In the last few years we’ve witnessed a dramatic shift away from the progress we need to avert climate disaster,’ the blurb for a climate assembly held at Friends House in London rather depressingly set out. Not only had the Trump administration declared war on climate progress, it said, but ‘around the world a growing number of lawsuits are being used against governments over environmental laws and other regulations, while groups such as Greenpeace are being targeted too’.