The hottest month in world history has just ended. It is only days since the United Nations general secretary, António Guterres, warned that the era of global warming has now become the era of global…
The climate emergency is not a priority for Rishi Sunak. Britain is committed to reaching net zero by 2050, but the prime minister is focused on a closer horizon. The environment does not feature…
The International Energy Agency in 2021 had an unambiguous message: developing new fossil fuel resources is incompatible with restricting global heating to below 1.5C, a threshold beyond which the…
In an essay entitled The Sense of Wonder, the American conservationist Rachel Carson suggested two questions to make us think more deeply about our natural environment. “What if I had never seen this…
Sir Keir Starmer has been admirably straightforward about his mission to make Britain a “clean energy superpower”. Blocking new oil and gas fields is a sine qua non to realise that ambition.
Temperature records have toppled across the continent. Governments must not delay any longer
Warm winter days do not instinctively feel like an extreme weather event.