Climate Change Committee

Scotland's First Carbon Budget: CCC proposes 57 per cent emissions cut by 2030

Climate change

Scotland's First Carbon Budget: CCC proposes 57 per cent emissions cut by 2030

Climate advisors urge Scottish Government to use devolved powers to accelerate efforts to cut emissions from buildings, surface transport, agriculture, and land use

clock 21 May 2025 • 6 min read
Study: UK could be 'global capital' for carbon credit industry

Carbon Accounting

Study: UK could be 'global capital' for carbon credit industry

New research by BeZero Carbon suggests UK carbon markets could generate £1bn of tax revenue for the exchequer by 2035

clock 14 May 2025 • 3 min read
'Immediate action is necessary': CCC proposes 73 per cent emissions cut under Wales' Fourth Carbon Budget

Climate change

'Immediate action is necessary': CCC proposes 73 per cent emissions cut under Wales' Fourth Carbon Budget

Climate advisors call on Welsh government to double down on clean tech adoption and electrification to hit ambitious climate targets

clock 14 May 2025 • 5 min read
Fight against 'hopelessly inadequate' UK climate adaptation plan heads to top European court

Policy

Fight against 'hopelessly inadequate' UK climate adaptation plan heads to top European court

Having lost its appeal in the UK courts, Friends of the Earth is taking its claim against the government's climate adaptation strategy to the European Court of Human Rights

clock 08 May 2025 • 3 min read
CCC's Climate Adaptation Progress Report: Five key takeaways

Risk

CCC's Climate Adaptation Progress Report: Five key takeaways

The CCC has revealed the litany of government and corporate failures that are leaving the UK badly exposed to worsening climate impacts - but will anyone respond to the wake-up call?

clock 01 May 2025 • 13 min read
'This is a wake-up call': The green economy reacts to the CCC's climate adaptation report

Climate change

'This is a wake-up call': The green economy reacts to the CCC's climate adaptation report

Green business figures, politicians, environmental groups and experts react to the Climate Change Committee's damning assessment of the government's ongoing failure to boost the UK's preparedness for worsening climate change

clock 30 April 2025 • 15 min read
CCC: UK climate resilience efforts are 'slow, stalled or heading in wrong direction'

Policy

CCC: UK climate resilience efforts are 'slow, stalled or heading in wrong direction'

Government slammed by Climate Change Committee for continued failure to prepare for the rapidly worsening and costly impacts of climate change

clock 30 April 2025 • 9 min read
CCC boss urges government to 'make electricity as cheap as possible'

Energy

CCC boss urges government to 'make electricity as cheap as possible'

Emma Pinchbeck tells Innovation Zero that UK has a critical role to play in the new ‘age of electricity’

clock 29 April 2025 • 6 min read
Lucky number seven: There are big challenges - and opportunities - in the UK's seventh carbon budget

Policy

Lucky number seven: There are big challenges - and opportunities - in the UK's seventh carbon budget

AECOM's Helena Rivers explores the CCC's recommendations for the Seventh Carbon Budget and what they could mean for the UK

clock 25 April 2025 • 5 min read
How failing to invest in climate action today could cost the world a third of its GDP

Risk

How failing to invest in climate action today could cost the world a third of its GDP

Boston Consulting Group highlights the 'massive opportunity for humanity' from accelerating climate action today to avoid future catastrophe

clock 12 March 2025 • 7 min read