Investigation
— Leader of the Commons Penny Mordaunt is among those to have received funds from a firm owned by a former chair of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
Climate Change
Climate change is the result of long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. While some of these shifts may occur naturally, human activities have been the primary driver of climate change since the 1800s. The burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and gas, releases heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, exacerbating the problem.
Climate Change
— The government’s pro-climate rhetoric has met reality – and it doesn’t look good.
Environment
— Jo Maugham, Director of the Good Law Project, is leading the way in advocating for a future free from fossil fuel interests. Along with 120 other legal professionals, he has signed a Declaration of Conscience to take a stand against representing organizations with ties to the fossil fuel industry.
Climate Change
— The IPCC report discusses changes ahead and describes how existing solutions can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help people adjust to impacts of climate change that can’t be avoided.
Environment
— The High Court has ordered Ministers to update their plan and demonstrate how policies will achieve Net Zero climate targets by March 2023. Despite this, the Government is only “considering the next steps”.
Climate Change
— A departmental redesign is useful, but progress still depends on political will.
Climate Change
— Labour has accepted £12,000 from the UK’s largest carbon emitter, major polluter Drax. Why?
Climate Change
— A climate expert imagines how different things could have been if we took global warming seriously decades earlier.
Climate Change
— Tory-linked think tank appoints the author of books which claim that environmentalism is part of a “totalitarian” plan to control the public and human-made climate change is a “myth”.
TODAY+
— More than 90% of the world’s leading carbon offsets provider’s rainforest offset credits are likely to be “phantom credits” and do not represent genuine carbon reductions.
OPINION
— Given how little the COP conferences have achieved since they began in 1995 – not to mention their gigantic carbon footprints – it is time to end this spectacle of private jets flying in dignitaries and delegates to discuss the climate emergency.
Climate Change
— Focusing our attention on attitudes towards climate change could help us take a valuable step back from potentially deadlocked ideological debates.
Climate Change
— Fossil fuels were named as the problem at COP26. We’re no closer to eliminating them a year on.
Climate Change
— Don’t expect much at this year’s COP27 than new pledges and promises. But if you hope for a Paris-style “Sharm El-Sheikh agreement”, you will be disappointed: countries are not doing what they have promised at previous COPs.
Climate Protests
— Just Stop Oil joined the People’s Assembly coalition in a protest on Saturday to demand a general election and an immediate response to the climate and cost of living crisis.
Climate Change
— Research shows that when dramatic climate change protests happen people want to shoot the messenger, but they do hear the message.
