The paper explores alternative interpretations of the metonymy GREEN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. The material came from newspapers such as The Guardian, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, to name a few, as well as electronic corpora (i.e. British National Corpus); all selected material dealt with the issue of climate change. The author, examining the meaning of collocations and the surrounding context, demonstrates a prevalence of positive implications derived from the use of green in the sample, but also instances of green with negative connotations with inferred reference to its more general positive use. The findings reveal a spectrum of different metaphorical interpretations of the particular metonymy, which shows the different journalistic views about climate change.