Climate change

Region 'ravaged' by heatwaves, wildfires and drought this summer provided just over £16bn worth of UK food imports last year, prompting growing concerns for food security

National Farmers Union calls for legal target to ensure at least 60 per cent of food consumed in the UK is homegrown

Reports of government promotion of unrealistic climate scenarios come as Liberal Democrats accuse Thames Water of deliberately holding back sewage discharge data

Severe thunderstorms account for up to 70 per cent of $50bn in natural catastrophe losses in first half of 2023, Swiss Re Institute estimates

Running Tide successfully sinks biomass to depths of almost a mile off the coast of Iceland delivering open ocean carbon removal for the first time

But Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela fail to agree joint goal to end forest destruction by 2030

UK Space Agency reveals first recipients of £20m International Bilateral Fund investments and earmarks £15m for Earth monitoring technologies

Professor Ed Hawkins warns that new fossil fuel development risks ever more intense climate impacts

New collaborative cost-benefit analysis concludes cost of climate mitigation broadly matched by benefits, but taking account of health and biodiversity gains tips the scales in favour of rapid decarbonisation

Plus deep-sea mining delay, global coal consumption rises, the EU's new EV charging law and all the top green business news from around the world this week