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