Alok Sharma has said the government’s oil and gas bill going through the Commons will not cut household energy costs or create jobs and instead…
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Alok Sharma challenges Rishi Sunak: show us how UK can meet green pledges
Alok Sharma, the former Tory cabinet minister who chaired the landmark Cop26 UN summit in Glasgow, has warned Rishi Sunak that he will now have…
View More Alok Sharma challenges Rishi Sunak: show us how UK can meet green pledgesSunak set to end ban on new onshore windfarms in face of Tory rebellion
Rishi Sunak has signalled the end of a moratorium on new onshore wind projects in an attempt to head off a row with Tory MPs,…
View More Sunak set to end ban on new onshore windfarms in face of Tory rebellionUK joins calls for World Bank reform to focus funding on climate crisis
The UK has joined calls for sweeping reforms to the World Bank, to focus much-needed funding on the climate crisis, saying that its current structures…
View More UK joins calls for World Bank reform to focus funding on climate crisisRevealed: the ‘carbon bombs’ set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown
The world’s biggest fossil fuel firms are quietly planning scores of “carbon bomb” oil and gas projects that would drive the climate past internationally agreed…
View More Revealed: the ‘carbon bombs’ set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdownAlok Sharma: Cop26 must not become ‘bunch of meaningless promises’
Tackling the climate crisis must be a whole government effort or risk the Cop26 climate summit becoming “just a bunch of meaningless promises”, the cabinet…
View More Alok Sharma: Cop26 must not become ‘bunch of meaningless promises’UK will press governments to stick to climate pledges, says Cop26 president
The UK will continue to press governments around the world to cut greenhouse gas emissions urgently in the next year to limit global heating to…
View More UK will press governments to stick to climate pledges, says Cop26 presidentRatchets, phase-downs and a fragile agreement: how Cop26 played out
As weary delegates trudged into the Scottish Event Campus on the banks of the Clyde on Saturday, few realised what a mountain they still had…
View More Ratchets, phase-downs and a fragile agreement: how Cop26 played outWe’re on the brink of catastrophe, warns Tory climate chief
The world will soon face “catastrophe” from climate breakdown if urgent action is not taken, the British president of vital UN climate talks has warned.…
View More We’re on the brink of catastrophe, warns Tory climate chiefUK insists Cop26 must be held in person if possible
The UK government is considering how to use Covid-19 vaccines and testing to try to ensure vital UN climate talks this year go ahead in…
View More UK insists Cop26 must be held in person if possible