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UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves prepares to deliver the Spending Review, June 2025.

UK spending review 2025: Key climate and energy announcements

UK chancellor Rachel Reeves has unveiled the first spending review under the current Labour government, announcing funding for nuclear power, energy ... Read More

UK policy | Jun 11. 2025.
Solar farm on farmland in Bentham, UK.

Analysis: UK’s solar power surges 42% after sunniest spring on record

The UK’s solar farms and rooftops generated more electricity than ever before in the first five months of 2025, as the country enjoyed its sunniest... Read More

Renewables | Jun 4. 2025.
Pylons and wind farm in Dungeness, Kent, UK.

Factcheck: Why expensive gas – not net-zero – is keeping UK electricity prices so high

The UK’s high electricity prices have become intensely political, with competing claims over the cause of rocketing bills and how best to get them ... Read More

UK policy | May 20. 2025.
Pylon in Kenya.

Revealed: UK development body still has $700m invested overseas in fossil-fuel assets

British International Investment (BII), a UK government-owned and aid-funded company, has a portfolio of overseas fossil-fuel assets worth hundreds o... Read More

UK policy | May 16. 2025.
Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, at Downing Street, UK. Credit: Malcolm Park / Alamy Stock Photo. Image ID: 2XJ02DG.

Analysis: Attacks on Ed Miliband in UK newspaper editorials have already exceeded 2024 levels

UK newspapers have already launched more editorials attacking Ed Miliband in the first four months of 2025 than they did during the whole of 2024, Ca... Read More

UK policy | May 2. 2025.
The flooded River Avon on the road to Eckington bridge in January 2024.

CCC: England’s approach to climate adaptation is ‘not working’

The “vast majority” of the UK government’s plans to prepare for climate hazards have made virtually no progress over the past two years, accord... Read More

UK policy | Apr 30. 2025.
Cyclists on a cycle superhighway, London, UK.

Guest post: How human behaviour shapes effective climate policies

There is clear evidence that technological change will be insufficient to meet UK and global climate goals on its own, leaving a vital role for consu... Read More

Guest posts | Mar 26. 2025.
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch at the launch of a 'policy renewal process', 18 March 2025.

Factcheck: Why Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is wrong about UK’s net-zero goal

The leader of the opposition Conservative party, Kemi Badenoch, has shattered the political consensus on climate change in a speech attacking the UK�... Read More

UK policy | Mar 18. 2025.
Wood cut of the Great Fire of London in 1666.

Analysis: UK emissions fall 3.6% in 2024 as coal use drops to lowest since 1666

The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 3.6% in 2024 as coal use dropped to the lowest level since 1666, the year of the Great Fire of London, ac... Read More

UK policy | Mar 12. 2025.
Teesside Offshore wind farm at Redcar, north east England.

CCC: Reducing emissions 87% by 2040 would help ‘cut household costs by £1,400’

The UK should cut its emissions to 87% below 1990 levels by 2040 under its seventh five-yearly “carbon budget”, according to official advice from... Read More

UK policy | Feb 26. 2025.
Planes queuing for takeoff at Heathrow airport in Britain.

Analysis: UK would need forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset new airport expansion

A forest twice the size of Greater London would need to be planted in the UK to cancel out the extra emissions from the expansion of Heathrow, Gatwic... Read More

Emissions | Jan 27. 2025.
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