Policy
What would a response to the climate emergency look like?
The Green Economy Coalition's Emily Benson outlines an emergency treatment plan for nature
Holding out for a hero
The declaration of emergency is central to the stories we are told from childhood - calls for a climate emergency are not going away and the government needs to find a credible way to respond
Alarm bells: Government resists calls for climate emergency ahead of latest protests
Activists to stage a protest in Parliament Square as Labour prepares to table motion declaring a 'climate emergency' and hopes grow for net zero target
US renewables production outstrips coal for first time ever
In April 2019, the US renewables sector generated more electricity than the country's coal power plants for the first time, according to analysis by the Institute for Energy Economics.
'Slow steaming': Shipping industry leaders call for carbon-saving speed limits
'We express our strong support for the IMO implementing mandatory regulation of global ship speeds'
Two-thirds of Britons agree planet is in a climate emergency
Greenpeace poll findings released alongside group's 'manifesto' to slash emissions
Spain's socialists win election with Green New Deal platform
Vote share up in mining regions after deal to transition away from coal, manifesto calls for 'consideration of planetary limits as conditions for economic progress'
'Significant regression': MPs blast government's post-Brexit environmental protection plans
Draft Environment Bill sets out worse environmental and climate change safeguards for UK than current EU policy, EFRA committee warns
Net Zero: CCC expected to call for 2050 target, as MPs propose climate 'war footing'
Ed Miliband and Caroline Lucas back new Environmental Justice Commission, as pressure on government to embrace net zero emission target intensifies
Climate emergency
WWF's Gareth Redmond-King sets out five essential policy actions needed to tackle the climate emergency
What is net zero?
What does 'net-zero' mean and what are the challenges - from technological to moral - to achieving it? Josh Burke at LSE's Grantham Research Institute sets out some of the issues
Business leaders: EU must outline 2050 net zero strategy
EU should develop a long-term decarbonisation strategy to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, European business leaders have urged in run up to crucial summit
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon declares 'climate emergency'
SNP leader tells party conference school strikers are right to call for a climate emergency declaration and 'Scotland will live up to our responsibility'
Christiana Figueres: 'Not even a stretch' for UK to achieve net zero emissions by 2050
Former UNFCCC chief speaks to BusinessGreen about XR climate protests and risks to business ahead of CCC's hotly anticipated 1.5C advice this week
Fracking tsar quits with attack on 'highly successful' environmental activists
Natascha Engel slams government for 'political decisions' that have made hampered development of shale gas industry
Corbyn launches bid to declare a national climate emergency
Labour will attempt to force Commons vote as it is revealed that the government has failed to spend anti-pollution cash
'Net zero must mean zero': What can we expect from the CCC's pivotal 1.5C advice?
As the Committee on Climate Change gears up to provide its hotly-anticipated net zero advice to the government, green economy experts explain what to expect
Extinction Rebellion 'pauses' as talk turns to future protests and ministerial meetings
Reports suggests representatives of XR could meet with senior ministers in the coming weeks
China promotes 'green' belt and road, but is pressured over coal investments
More than 30 heads of state arrive in Beijing to court its massive outward investment plan, but the UN chief and others warn the investments must be sustainable
MPs warn post-Brexit environment plans fall 'woefully short'
Proposals to replace EU rules 'downgrade' green principles, says cross-party committee
Carbon capture 'crucial' to delivering net zero economy, MPs warn
BEIS Committee slams government's 'turbulent' policy support for carbon capture, storage and utilisation (CCUS) technologies
Green Alliance: UK must plant 70,000 hectares of trees a year to combat climate change
Think tank calls for mass woodland planting drive, a ban on peatland burning, and a focus on low carbon farming methods in new report - but is the government listening?
Rebel Alliance
Extinction Rebellion and Greta Thunberg have reinvigorated the climate movement and revealed the utter paucity of their critics' arguments - but what happens now?
New York city bans inefficient glass skyscrapers, WA state to end coal
New York mayor announces sweeping climate change programme, while Washington's power will be carbon-neutral by 2030
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