July 31, 2019

The ten hottest years have all happened since 2002, with 2016 the hottest ever according to a new report from the Met Office. Meanwhile, none of our coldest years has occurred after 1963.

July 26, 2019

A new survey, commissioned by Christian Aid, has found that 71% of the UK public believed that climate change was a more important issue than Brexit.  Two thirds of those asked beleieved that Bexit should be at the top of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s political agenda, while 60% felt that the government was not doing enough to tackle climate change.

July 10, 2019

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC), the government’s own advisory panel, has said that it is shocked by the lack of proper plans to protect people from the impacts of climate change - like heatwaves and flash floods.

June 21, 2019

The National Grid has predicted that 2019 will be the first full year that clean electricity generation will produce more energy than that generated by fossil fuels.

May 2, 2019

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC), the government’s panel of official advisers on climate change stated yesterday that the UK government needs to set a legally binding target to cut our greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. ‘Net zero’ recognises that we will still be burning some fossil fuels, for example for flying, whilst emissions arise from farming too, but that these emissions would be counteracted by the planting of trees or by capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from power stations and factories, which could then be buried underground.

April 29, 2019

One million homes in the UK are now being supplied with biomethane - 'green gas' - for their heating, hot water and cooking.

April 18, 2019

Over 400 people have now been arrested at the Extinction Rebellion protests being held in London. For four days now, protesters have been blocking key roads and landmarks in the capital, including Waterloo Bridge, Vauxhall Bridge, Parliament Square, Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Circus.

April 18, 2019

Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England has warned that the world's financial systems are threatened by climate change and are at risk if they don't reform. Mr Carney, together with François Villeroy de Galhau, the Governor of the Banque de France wrote an open letter yesterday outlining the dangers they feel climate change poses to the global economy.

March 25, 2019

A new report on behalf of Energy Innovation, a US-based company producing research on energy and environmental policy has found that renewable energy like wind and solar power could already be cheaper for US consumers than 74% of coal-based energy, and this will increase to 86% by 2025.

March 18, 2019

Tens of thousands of young people walked out of school last Friday to express their alarm at the apparent inaction of politicians across the globe in the face of mounting evidence for climate change and how it is going to affect our planet in the near future.