Sarah Finch

🚨 URGENT: The NPPF consultation is critical chance to lock in stronger climate-friendly planning restrictions for onshore oil, gas and coal

⏳ Deadline to submit: 10 March 2026

We’ve produced a short briefing on the key fossil fuel questions.

Scan the QR, or visit tinyurl.com/NPPF2026

Help Stop the Criminal Killing of Birds of Prey Despite more than 70 years of full legal protection, raptor persecution remains a serious and persistent wildlife crime. The Yorkshire Dales is one of the UK’s worst-affected areas, with 152 confirmed...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Help Stop the Criminal Killing of Birds of Prey. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/he...

Congratulations Ruth! That is very well deserved.

I heard one yesterday in Somerset

Petition: Pause UK offshore CO₂ storage projects and conduct full safety and legal review We ask the Government to pause all UK offshore CO₂ storage projects until a full independent safety, environmental and legal assessment is completed. Some research suggests that injecting impure CO₂ c...

Please sign this petition asking the Government to pause all offshore CO₂ storage projects until a full independent safety, environmental and legal assessment is completed.

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Public Law and the Planet - Public Law Project 3 March 2026 @ 10:00 am - 6:00 pm - In-person tickets for this conference are now sold out. To book for online attendance, please visit this page. How can we use the law to ensure governments deliver ...

For more discussion of how to use the law in campaigning, join the Public Law and the Planet conference next week. In-person tickets are sold out but you can join online.

I’m speaking and so are some star activists, lawyers, NGOs, and policy-makers.

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Thanks Steve for inviting me onto the podcast. It was interesting to chat about the up- and down-sides of using the law in campaigns.

The law is a powerful tool for climate campaigners – but it's also expensive and there are no guarantees of success.

Don’t reverse Finch ruling, PM urged The campaigner who won a landmark Supreme Court ruling on onshore oil and gas emissions is urging the prime minister to resist calls to overturn the judgement.

Sarah Finch, the campaigner who won a landmark Supreme Court ruling on onshore oil and gas emissions, is urging the prime minister to resist calls to overturn the judgement.

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‘More influential than Urgenda’: UK Finch ruling 20 months on “I've become quite the celebrity in the small world of climate litigation,” laughs Sarah Finch, an environmental activist who won a landmark climate lawsuit that has made big waves in the UK and furth...

“Truly Finch is the gift that keeps on giving!”

This article looks at the impacts of my Supreme Court win – including stopping fossil fuel projects and industrial pig and poultry farms.

And also at its next big test: will the government re-approve Rosebank?

www.the-wave.net/finch-uk-cli...

The government is expected to respond to the Fingleton Review of Nuclear Regulation this week.

I've written to the Prime Minister and relevant Secretaries of State asking them NOT to implement two of its recommendations.

You can read my letter here: www.wealdactiongroup.org.uk/2026/02/lett...

Can you buy local venison in the South West?

It says 'Advice pending, we're still researching this one'.

Help stop the nature crisis becoming a catastrophe Wildlife and natural places need more protection, not less. But the UK Government is thinking about making it even easier and cheaper for developers to destroy our last few natural spaces. Please ema...

As a Wildlife Trusts member, have you seen this?

action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/183790/...

He said:

“Fingleton found Unnecessary red-tape… Well-intentioned, but fundamentally misguided, environmental regulations... I would go further.

In addition to accepting the Fingleton recommendations I am asking the Business Secretary to apply these lessons across the entire industrial strategy.”

Prime Minister's speech on Britain built for all: 1 December 2025 Prime Minister Keir Starmer's speech at Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre on a Britain built for all.

It was in a speech on 1 December 2025: www.gov.uk/government/s...

"In his enthusiastic adoption of proposals to rip up environmental safeguards, Keir Starmer is showing the same misunderstanding he showed over the Planning & Infrastructure Bill.... There is nothing to be gained from fast-tracking developments if we destroy our environment in the process."

‘More influential than Urgenda’: UK Finch ruling 20 months on “I've become quite the celebrity in the small world of climate litigation,” laughs Sarah Finch, an environmental activist who won a landmark climate lawsuit that has made big waves in the UK and furth...

In 2024, we had a big win in the Supreme Court over the climate impact of coal, oil & gas.

20 months on, it’s has had a huge impact, in the UK and beyond.

But it’s about to face a test. Will the govt re-approve Rosebank?

Review by @isabellakaminski.bsky.social

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The Fingleton Review has tempted the government to scrap hard won environmental protections This post is by Sarah Finch, a climate campaigner, who won a landmark legal victory in 2024 over greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel developments. When the economist John Fingleton and his ta…

The PM wants to scrap laws that protect nature.

Wildlife charities are campaigning against some of these threats. I’m also concerned about threats to the environmental impact assessment and judicial reviews regimes.

My blog for @green-alliance.org.uk

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TASC’s new legal challenge against Sizewell C’s secret flood defences Together Against Sizewell C (TASC) is a community-based group of like-minded individuals who have been actively campaigning on a voluntary basis, since 2013, to stop the Sizewell C project.

Following our legal team's advice, TASC is appealing the High Court’s refusal of our legal challenge because the safety of our coast & future generations is at stake. Plans for Sizewell C’s additional sea defences have...1/2
Plse support/share our Crowdfunder - www.crowdjustice.com/case/sizewel...

Will Ed Miliband approve oilfields he once called ‘vandalism’? Jackdaw and Rosebank have spent years in legal limbo — but the push for economic growth could prove irresistible

Nice of the Sunday Times to ask my opinion on this hot topic.

I am quite sure Miliband will not want Rosebank approved on his watch. We now know it could generate 254 million tonnes of greenhouse gases. The idea this will not cause significant harm is laughable.

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Composite image of a guitar, music stave and knife and fork on a flyer advertising GACC's Fundraising Sunday lunch on 22 Feb.

Please come to our Fundraising Lunch at the beautiful Gildings Barn in Newdigate on Sunday 22 February.

Delicious food, chilled sounds, great company, and all funds raised go towards the costs of our legal challenge to Gatwick's proposed new runway.

Booking details on the image.

I did wonder about that but it looks different. They must have moved things around. A traditional post canvassing test stop.

Well done. I'm trying to recognise what pub that is.

YouTube video by New Weather Institute Winter Olympics Introduction Report - Matt Rendell covering the Olympic and climate frontlines

The great sports journalist Matt Rendell will be doing daily climate and environment stories from the Winter Olympics for @cooldownnetwork.bsky.social & New Weather Institute. Here's a short intro... 👇

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Street sign with a number of bird-based names: Oriole Drive, Lark Close, Kingfisher Drive, Curlew Way and Raven Close

Similar in Exeter. I have seen a kingfisher in the University campus nearby. But Oriole??? I've never seen one of those.

Public Law and the Planet - Public Law Project 3 March 2026 @ 10:00 am - 6:00 pm - How can we use the law to ensure governments deliver climate justice? At a time when the impacts of the climate crisis are becoming ever more urgent, this event off...

I’ll be speaking at @publiclawproject.bsky.social's Public Law and the Planet conference on 3 March in London.

This event brings together activists, community groups, lawyers and NGOs. Join us in person or online! Concessionary and free tickets available

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“Every time I saw the river I did have that thought – this is what the fish have to do” 🐟

Salmon Run Ultra Runners can tell you what it’s like to run 44 miles with the salmon from sea to spawning grounds.

Want to see more? 🎥

These are snippets from our film which you can watch now, link in bio!

What bizarre comments by the judge. "some take the view that hen harriers are a protected species". it's not exactly a 'view'! Thank you for the report.

I can't bear to watch it. What "good days" are they talking about?

We’re half way through the hearing into our legal challenge on Gatwick Airport expansion – and the govt has made a partial concession on one of our grounds: noise. We’re pleased we have secured better protection for local people on this at least.
The case continues.

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