Action on climate emergency
Records were broken in 2025 as the UK’s combination of wind, solar and biomass power plants all set new records in 2025, Carbon Brief analysis shows, but electricity generation from gas still went up. The rise in gas power was due to the end of UK coal generation in late 2024 and nuclear power hitting …
Delay Burniston gas decision call from Friends of the Earth. The environmental organisation has written to North Yorkshire Council (NYC) urging it to delay its decision about a controversial new fracking proposal in Burniston, North Yorkshire. It comes after the government published draft changes to national planning policy in mid – December that, if adopted, …
A worsening climate crisis briefing took place in Westminster on 27 November. Ten of the UK’s leading climate and nature experts briefed an invited audience of over 1,200 politicians and leaders from business, culture, faith, sport and the media with the latest implications for health, food, national security and the economy. The worsening climate and …
While temperatures keep rising COP30 failed the climate challenge ending with an outcome that contains no direct reference to the fossil fuels that are heating up the planet. Meeting in in Belém, Brazil, it was a disappointing conclusion as more than 80 countries including the UK and EU had wanted the meeting to commit the …
A National Emergency Briefing on climate change says ‘return to the science’. Ten of the UK’s leading experts briefed an audience of politicians and leaders from business, culture, faith, sport and the media with the latest implications for health, food, national security and the economy, in London on 27 November. The meeting, held at Westminster …
The new climate plan was end announced at the end of October by the Government as its Carbon Budget and Growth Delivery Plan. The plan sets out how the UK will continue to reduce emissions in a way that lowers bills and secures good jobs, in line with the 2008 Climate Change Act. This framework …
New figures are showing that more CO2 in 2025 has been released than ever before. With talks in Brazil scheduled to end today, countries remained divided on a road map to transition away from fossil fuels. This is another sign that efforts to fight climate change by cutting emissions are moving far too slowly to …
Yorkshire Water boss row has Ofwat, the water watchdog, criticised over an undisclosed offshore payment made to Nicola Shaw Yorkshire Water’s chief executive, the Yorkshire Post reports. Ofwat ruled that the payment of £600,000 did not flout the bonus ban rule. Ms Shaw was paid a total of £1.3m over the 2023-24 and 2024-25 financial …
Call for stronger climate commitments by activists ahead of ‘critical’ COP30 as World leaders are gathering in Belém, Brazil, for their meeting on tackling climate change. The “Conference of the Parties” (COP), the annual United Nations (UN) climate meeting is being held 10 years after the Paris climate agreement at which countries pledged to try …
A devastating climate failure – COP 30 must change direction. The United Nations general secretary has deplored the failure to limit global warning to 1.5C and warns that we ‘must change course immediately’. As recently reported in the media, António Guterres has warned that it is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the target set …