Their website states that, "We are a diverse group of women and men who are determined to raise awareness of the biggest threat facing humanity today - that of Climate Change".
[3] On 12 January 2009, two days before the government gave the go ahead for a third runway at Heathrow, Climate Rush held a sit-in dinner at domestic departures, Terminal One.
On the day that the Houses of Parliament were debating the expansion of Heathrow Airport, ten climate suffragettes went armed with chains to the gates of Westminster.
They were joined, last minute, by a pensioner from Twickenham who frustrated with writing to her MP and going on marches had decided to take a step further and engage in civil disobedience.
[6] In the week when Fred "the Shred" Goodwin, CEO of a nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland, declined to give up his £16 million pension, Climate Rush decided to hold a party outside RBS HQ.
Climate Rush held a street party outside their London head offices forcing them to shut their doors for two hours and hindering the smooth running of their business.
It was four days after Ed Miliband declared his plan to invest in a new generation of coal-fired power stations, his answer to energy insecurity problems.
They took a tour of climate criminals whose offices are based in central London, BP, BAA, Shell, Unilever, before congregating on Westminster Bridge, just under Big Ben.
They managed to close the bridge for over an hour whilst they unfurled picnic blankets, listened to a ceilidh band, climbed on Boudica's statue and dropped banners proclaiming – DEEDS NOT WORDS.
[10] In August 2009 protestors campaigning against the closure of a wind turbine factory chained themselves to the house of the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Peter Mandelson.
Inspired by the film Beyond the Pole, which has as its strapline 'Don't Be Impotent, Be Important', they hoped to send a positive message to Nick that this was the moment to place climate change 'sensitively but firmly at the heart of all government policy'.