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Climate solutions happening globally as COP28 nears end
As COP28 nears the end, climate solutions are already happening aceoss the world, shown by winners of the 2023 Ashden Aw…
Lack of climate resilience in our food supply chains risks our health
A climate scientist’s hopes for COP28
As the UN climate summit COP28 gets underway in UAE, Cambridge University climate scientist Rihab Khalid, attending for …
Contracts for Difference: Government on course to steer scheme to build offshore wind out of troubled waters?
The Government has announced new maximum strike prices for its Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme today after failing…
Storms, floods, droughts and an unstable food supply
Not 'just 1% of global emissions'
As Ministers slow some key net zero policies, once again the argument that the UK is 'only 1% of global emissions' resur…
Road to Dubai: COP’s first Health Day
As climate impacts worsen, the harm to health caused by climate change comes into sharper focus. As COP28 includes the f…
Energy Bill: From turbines to hydrogen, how is our energy system getting ready for net zero?
What is the latest with the Government's flagship legislation, the Energy Bill?…
What to expect from COP28?
With just weeks until the next UN Climate Summit, hosted by the UAE, we look ahead to what is likely to be on the table …
The road to Dubai: three summits and a stocktake
The international meetings and moments that build towards the next UN climate summit - COP28 in the United Arab Emirates…
Heatwaves, wildfires and climate change
In a globalised world, heatwaves and wildfires that would have been impossible, or many times less likely, without clima…
UK’s £11.6bn climate pledge: what if it steps back?
As warnings grow of Britain letting its climate leadership role slip, suggestions re-emerged of cuts and delays to UK cl…
Will new energy efficiency standards for privately rented homes send landlords packing?
Tightened energy efficiency standards could help to improve some of the worst performing housing in the UK - but what co…
G7 leaders and climate
Climate and energy loom large for G7 leaders as threats grow - but so too do the opportunities offered by the clean tran…
UK sitting out global clean tech race
As the US and the EU compete to invest in clean tech deployment, does the UK risk being stuck in the middle by its decis…
IPCC: final warning for a critical decade
The IPCC's sixth assessment warns we're running out of time to keep to 1.5°, but we have all the tools we need to get on…
Spring Budget: where is the UK in the green growth race?
After weeks of pressure from business, in Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget the response to the IRA was hotly antic…