At the end of December, activists and celebrity supporters relaunched their #RethinkHS2 campaign opposing the UK’s new high-speed line with a rather glossy video voiced by Emma Thompson, featuring…
Post-Brexit regulation doesn’t match new EU rules to tackle ocean pollution, despite UK being Europe’s largest plastic waste producer
The UK has been accused of failing to honour its promise to curb…
Call for world leaders to act in wake of French extradition case that turned on environmental concerns.
Air pollution does not respect national boundaries and environmental degradation will lead to…
Six projects across the UK will today receive a share of £8 million in government funding as part of a drive to create the world’s first net zero emissions industrial zone by 2040.
Projects across…
Accenture investment to expand the U.K. company’s active grid measurement tech for grid operators including National Grid and AEMO.
Getting to 100 percent clean energy presents power grid operators…
Storm Bella heralds first 24-hour period where turbines supply more than half of country’s electricity.
Boxing Day saw yet another record broken for wind power generation in Britain.
It was the…
I needed something to fight for after the People’s Vote campaign collapsed. So I unleashed my inner ecowarrior.
Anyone who objects to my incessant posting of tree photos on social media can blame…
The Oil & Gas Authority has submitted a revised strategy to the UK Parliament, featuring a range of new net zero obligations for the UK.
The revised Strategy reflects the ongoing global energy…
This week, the UK government began talks with EDF on the construction of a new nuclear power station in Suffolk. The proposed power station is likely to feature in the government’s “10-point plan” to…
Forty per cent of Friday’s electricity was generated in windfarms thanks to blustery winter weather.
Blustery winter weather helped Great Britain’s windfarms set a record for clean power generation…
In early January of this year, fresh off the experience of writing a year-end blog post for 2019, I started a project that I thought would make writing this year's year-end post easier. I created a…
The Guardian’s biodiversity editor looks back on a year that put the state of the planet on the agenda in ways no one could have foreseen.
The year 2020 was always destined to be a crucial one for…
Ministers also pledge £1.3bn for electric vehicle charging points, as energy plan unveiled.
Boris Johnson’s government is to invest £1bn in carbon capture and storage (CCS) schemes aimed at “sucking…
Coroner says failure to reduce pollution levels to legal limits was factor in death of Ella Kissi-Debrah, who had severe asthma.
A coroner has made legal history by ruling that air pollution was a…
LONDON (Reuters) -Lloyd’s of London is scaling back its exposure to coal and oil sands, the commercial insurance market said in its first sustainability report on Wednesday, in a reversal of its…
Boris Johnson promises to go further and faster by setting target of 68% reduction in annual carbon emissions.
The UK will cut greenhouse gas emissions further and faster than any other major…
77 businesses including Tesco, BT, Coca-Cola, and Sky are calling on Boris Johnson to announce a substantial emissions reduction commitment.
In the run up to the fifth anniversary of the Paris…