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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
No coal in Cumbria, as the Whitehaven coalmine’s planning application has been abandoned, ending a process that could have created the UK’s first deep coalmine in 30 years. As previously reported on this web site, the Cumbrian mine was ruled unlawful last September, with the judge agreeing with Friends of the Earth, which brought the …
Their profit – our loss is clear as the Norwegian state owner of the Rosebank oilfield off Shetlands has announced that it made £24 billion in global profits last year and plans to cut billions from its spending on green energy. At the end of January a Scottish court ruled that the earlier consent for …
Drax will raise carbon emissions as thousands marched in London yesterday demanding action on polluted water. The Guardian reported earlier today that Drax power station near Selby, North Yorkshire, will keep raising the levels of carbon emissions in the atmosphere until the 2050s despite using carbon capture technology, according to scientific research. An earlier study …
UK’s last coal fired power station closes. Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire has closed. Demolition of the site will follow after decommissioning, and is set to take two years. The site is situated off the A453 near the M1, and adjacent to East Midlands Parkway railway station. It’s an East Midlands landmark providing power for …
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