Action on climate emergency
Offshore windfarms fuel 12m homes in a major step towards the UK government’s goal to create a clean electricity system by 2030. The government has awarded subsidy contracts to enough offshore windfarms to power 12 million homes as The Guardian reports. Contracts were awarded at an auction to eight new offshore farms after ministers doubled …
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 …
Biggest increase in carbon emissions in 2024 has been confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), with 2024 showing a record rise of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. From 2023 to 2024, the global average concentration of CO2 rose by 3.5 parts per million – the largest increase since modern measurements started in 1957, …
A deep peat burning ban is coming into force attendees of Saturday’s ACE Green Café meeting in Settle learnt. The meeting heard that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will ban the burning on England’s deep peat so as to restore habitats for rare wildlife and reduce air pollution and flooding. England’s …
Ed Miliband survives reshuffle – for now at least. A number of national newspapers have claimed that Sir Keir Starmer tried to move Ed Miliband out of his energy brief and into the housing department in the recent Government reshuffle, but the former Labour leader refused – insisting he wanted to keep overseeing the climate …
Cumbria mine developers seek compensation when we all thought the Woodhouse coalmine near Whitehaven had been confined to the dustbin of history. Well not quite, as on 11 August The Guardian reported that the government is being sued in a secretive “corporate court” despite the proposed new coalmine in Cumbria being quashed by the high …
Labour must improve climate actions in an interesting week in the debate about climate change. On Wednesday 30 April UK’s climate watchdog, the Climate Change Committee, reported that the government was putting people, the economy and the environment in increasing peril by failing to act on the effects of the climate crisis. Later that day …
Windfall tax consultation has been launched by the UK government on plans to replace the profits of energy companies from the North Sea when the windfall tax comes to an end in 2030. The windfall tax, first proposed by Labour in 2022 and implemented by the Conservative government to help tackle the cost of living …
Less carbon capture investment is to be made by Drax just weeks after the government agreed to pay extra public subsidies worth about half a billion pounds a year to help the company develop its carbon capture project after 2027, as we recently reported. The Drax Group said it will provide less carbon capture investment …
Happy bees and other pollinators as the government bans bee-killing pesticides for emergency use in the UK in response to an application for its use from the NFU (National Farmers’ Union) and British Sugar. The neonicotinoid pesticide Cruiser SB, which is used on sugar beet, is highly toxic to bees and has the potential to …