Olivia Blake MP: ‘Rather than drilling for more fuel to pour on the climate emergency, it’s time for the real security of a sprint to renewables’
The Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill does nothing to fulfill our climate and nature targets
Climate Change
Here’s what the next Labour government can do to protect the UK from flooding and extreme weather events
Flood-related damage already costs an average of £700m annually, and global temperature rises could see this bill go up by 20 per cent over the next century,
Crackdown on climate protesters in UK ‘extremely worrying’ says UN expert
“Increasingly severe crackdowns” on peaceful protest in the UK condemned
National Trust warns of climate change ‘chaos’ for UK wildlife
Politicians must prioritise tackling the climate and nature crisis in election run-up, says charity
Governments need to break with fossil fuel addiction to tackle the climate crisis
The brutal truth as we reflect on COP28 is that we are far from where we need to be to prevent catastrophic climate change
Daily Mail events firm is given £500k government contract to run UK COP28 events
Many are already questioning the government’s commitment to tackling climate change, after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rowed back on a number of pledges to tackle the climate emergency in a bid to appease his right-wing Tory base.
We need to get real about the risks and possibilities of self-driving cars
‘If you put self-driving into the equation, you potentially massively increase the climate impacts.’
‘Government has turned its back on working people’: Trade unions react to King’s speech
“gimmicks, division, and more of the same.”
Tory Minister admits new oil and gas plan will not bring down energy bills
“It wouldn’t necessarily bring energy bills down, that’s not what we’re saying”,
Rishi Sunak’s watering down of net zero policies doesn’t give him the poll bounce right-wing press had hoped
The Sun and others praised the Prime Minister for his policies, claiming that ‘Rishi Sunak’s delay on petrol car ban gives him eight point surge in polls’.