2024 has been a busy year for Opportunity Green. We’ve turned three, doubled our staff from 12 to 24 and moved twice to keep up with our size! So, as we head towards the end of the year, our team is reflecting on some of the year’s highlights, along with a few of the videos we’ve made along the way. 

As the second person to join our busy communications team, Daniel has played a crucial role in raising the profile of not only Opportunity Green, but also the SASHA Coalition, in his first year. He tells us about his highlights so far and what he’s looking forward to next.

At COP29 in Baku, Azerbajan, the focus was on climate finance and the tagline was ‘in solidarity for a green world’. But what does solidarity mean to the countries most badly affected by climate change? Our Senior Director, Climate Diplomacy, talks to climate activists at COP to find out.

Opportunity Green’s focus at COP29 was the potential to generate climate finance from the aviation and shipping sectors. Our CEO reflects on how each sector is shaping up when it comes to climate finance – and finds that aviation is undoubtedly falling short.

This week, the 2021 court ruling requiring Shell to reduce its emissions by 45% by 2030 was overturned on appeal. Whilst initially appearing to be a blow to corporate accountability on climate change, our Senior Legal Manager Sophie Prinz takes a closer look at some of the wider implications of the judgment. 

Last Thursday was a real thrill for OG as we celebrated our third birthday at London’s beautiful Somerset House. Between drinks and canapés we held a stimulating panel discussion on “Climate, finance & international transport: how should shipping and aviation pay for their environmental impacts in climate vulnerable countries.” Read on to hear about the discussion’s main points. 

The UK’s new Foreign Secretary David Lammy made the welcome announcement that climate would be central to the UK’s foreign diplomacy. Now it just needs to be financed – which is where the undertaxed sectors of shipping and aviation come in.

Opportunity Green's CEO Aoife O'Leary hasn't flown for five years. Here, she reflects on how she has managed to reduce her personal aviation emissions by cutting out flying and gives her top tips on how to fly less and reduce airplane pollution.

With autumn starting to set in, we take a trip back through the best positive climate stories this (more or less) sunny summer had to offer.

Getting away from the desk for a day, last week the Opportunity Green team headed to Hampstead Heath to learn the art of foraging with nature connoisseur Flavour Fred. Read all about what we learnt and, most importantly, what we ate along the way.