Kemi Badenoch

Conservative Party leader vows to back renewables, nuclear, and fossil fuel drilling, as she sets out vision for wave of tax cuts and bonfire of planning and environmental regulations

Andrew Warren explains how the Shadow Chancellor's claim weakening building standards will result in more affordable homes is based on some deeply questionable assumptions and ignores the cost savings more efficient homes deliver

Andrew Griffith sets out plans for bonfire of environmental and climate rules, but green business groups accuse previous government's Net Zero Business Champion of undermining investment in growth industries

Conservatives set to announce plans to axe the Environment Agency and Natural England, drop the Future Homes Standard and Extended Producer Responsibility rules, and quit the Aarhus Convention

Bowie now set to lead Tory campaign against the UK Climate Change Act and 2050 net zero target as Kemi Badenoch announces sweeping changes to top team

Conservatives argue ditching 'net zero dogma' and prioritising 'cheap power' could save UK £320bn over 20 years and still drive down emissions, but critics question feasibility of plan centred on new nuclear projects and North Sea drilling

The right of British politics has stepped up its attacks on climate action in recent weeks, so why has the rest of the political spectrum largely failed to seize the 'teachable moment' presented by crippling heatwaves to highlight the vital importance...

As the wildfires rage, what passes for climate discourse on the right of British politics is plumbing depressing new depths

Joint statements promise more co-ordinated effort to enhance climate resilience, as Tory leader brands net zero plans a 'political fiction'

Corporate Leaders Group UK and Aldersgate Group back statement urging leaders from across the political spectrum to accelerate investment in a 'resilient, low carbon, nature-positive economic future'