Policy
Reach for the Sky: Shell scenario wrestles with 'awe-inspiring task' of building net zero emission economy
Oil giant offers 'technologically, industrially, and economically possible' pathway for meeting Paris Agreement goals
Set 2030 zero carbon standard for new homes, construction sector urges
Letter from 50 construction and property business leaders calls on government to deliver long-term green building policy certainty
Government launches £260m Clean Air Fund
But latest move from Defra disappoints campaigners by failing to move forward with plans for nationwide diesel scrappage scheme
WWF: Plastic waste set to soar 20 per cent by 2030
New study predicts that despite pledges to tackle plastic waste, UK is still on track to throwaway a third more coffee cups by 2030
Brexit farming rules must deliver more sustainable food production, warns Green Alliance
Think tank welcomes Defra's post-Brexit farming subsidy plan, but says more focus needed on sustainable food production
EU leaders demand 2050 roadmap by early 2019
EU Council call on the European Commission to produce mid-century roadmap for emissions reduction
Druridge Bay: Sajid Javid refuses coal mine planning permission citing climate concerns
Decision letter confirms that Secretary of State gave "very considerable weight" to greenhouse gas emissions that would result from controversial coal mine
Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, and the climate change angle
Is the scandalous corruption of our political campaigns also undermining our response to the environmental crisis?
HM Treasury, long-term decision making, sustainability and green finance
Is the Treasury a help or hindrance to the green cause, asks Culmer Raphael's Alasdair MacEwen
Nuclear defeat: Lords vote for Euratom withdrawal 'backstop'
Government plans to leave European nuclear agreement after Brexit suffer setback as Peers vote through amendment that would allow for a pause until alternative arrangements are agreed
Gas 'crisis': Case for state intervention?
ECIU's Richard Black reflects on how the cold weather has played havoc with debate surrounding the UK's energy industry
Claire Perry announces formal review of capacity market 'later this year'
Review will look at penalties, contract lengths, and potentially opening up capacity market to new technologies such as renewables, Minister tells energy sector conference
Climate Change Act: UK carbon targets legal action set to continue
BREAKING: Judge adjourns permission hearing on crucial challenge to the government's long term emissions goals, as legal battle continues
'The tip of a very large iceberg': 'Subsidy-free' offshore wind contract awarded, as low cost renewables trend gathers pace
Vattenfall secures landmark contract, as major new report suggests 60GW of 'subsidy-free' renewables could come online by 2030
Government floats proposals to phase out coal and oil heating from 2020s
'We will not be heating our buildings in 2050 by setting fire to the same substances that people burned in the Victorian era' government predicts
Parliament's role in delivering a green Brexit
It's up to MPs and peers to ensure the Withdrawal Bill helps to ensure a green Brexit, argues Lord Krebs
Is there a legal case for setting more ambitious UK carbon targets?
Campaign group Plan B will find out today whether it will be granted a full hearing to challenge the UK government over its failure to set more ambitions statutory emissions goals
Where's the BEEF?
Andrew Warren reveals the low-down on the decades-spanning work of the British Energy Efficiency Federation
From Dylan to Bieber: Decarbonisation is now a single-career span exercise
On Bob Dylan, World Cups, and the true urgency of the climate challenge
Green Brexit: a new era for farming, fishing and the environment
Michael Gove's speech to the Prosperity UK conference - in full
Gove eyes new green laws to 'underpin' protections post-Brexit
Environment Secretary says government commitment to improving environment means leaving 'the statute book in a better state than we inherited it'
'National health emergency': MPs unite to call for new Clean Air Act
Four select committees issue joint report accusing government of being more concerned with 'box-ticking' than adequately tackling air quality crisis
Survey: 'Shocking' lack of landlord awareness of energy efficiency rules
Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) regulations come into effect on April 1st, yet landlord survey finds 'staggering' level of ignorance of their implications
Gaia-Wind calls in liquidators, as industry slams government feed-in tariff inaction
'We have warned officials time and again that a failure to treat this issue as urgent puts jobs at risk'
