Rishi Sunak Boasts That Oil Funded Think Tank ‘Helped Us Draft’ Crackdown on Climate Protests
Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests.
UK climate change policy
Analysis: Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £2.5bn to UK energy bills
Energy bills in the UK are nearly £2.5bn higher than they would have been if climate policies had not been scrapped over the past decade, Carbon Brief analysis shows.
Zero Carbon Sooner—Revised case for an early zero carbon target for the UK
In summary, the moral and prudential case for the UK to adopt a zero target sooner than 2050—perhaps as soon as 2030—appears to be a very strong one.
COP26: How the UK started the climate crisis
COP26 will be a fight over different possible futures, a battle between social movements and entrenched power; between those desperate to defend the world, and those who prefer to preserve the world order; between reality and spin.
The risks of failing on climate adaptation: The UK case study
Being one of the most advanced countries on the planet, the challenges faced by the UK along its race for resilience serve as a warning for the entire world.
UK’s CO2 Emissions have Fallen 29% Over the Past decade
The UK’s CO2 emissions fell by 2.9% in 2019, according to Carbon Brief analysis. This brings the total reduction to 29% over the past decade since 2010, even as the economy grew by a fifth.
The Death of Heathrow’s Third Runway Sends a Clear Message Ahead of Cop26
Today’s high court judgment is a vindication of everything climate activists have been saying for more than a decade: Britain cannot honour its national commitment to tackle climate change at the same time as building a new runway at one of the busiest airports in the world.
UK Has Just 18 Months to Avoid ’Embarrassment’ Over Climate Inaction
The UK government only has 12-18 months left to raise its game on climate policy, or risk “embarrassment” as the likely host of the COP26 UN summit late next year.
In-depth Q&A: The UK Becomes First Major Economy to Set Net-Zero Climate Goal
The UK is to raise its ambition on climate change by setting a legally binding target to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to “net-zero” by 2050, prime minister Theresa May has announced today.
George Monbiot on U.K. Climate Emergency & the Need for Rebellion to Prevent Ecological Apocalypse
On Wednesday, the House of Commons became the first parliament in the world to declare a climate emergency. The resolution came on the heels of the recent Extinction Rebellion mass uprising that shut down Central London last month in a series of direct actions.
A New Constitution for the UK Needs ‘Rights of Nature’ at its Heart
We face a stark choice between endless austerity, the removal of rights, accelerating inequality, deepening environmental chaos and ever greater power to the few. Or ‘we the people’ seize the opportunity to re-write the rules by which we are governed and ensure that these place the ‘rights of nature’ at its very heart.
Britain Has its First New Deep Coal Mine in Decades – a Result of Pretending Climate Change isn’t Political
What the UK now needs is an open, positive political debate about how to meet its carbon targets, in place of the quiet ambiguity that has characterised the past decade.