Climate Breakdown

A response to the UK Prime Minister’s plan to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030.

The young adult climate event involving more than 350 delegates from 150 countries is taking place over the next two weeks.

What areas does Boris Johnson's plan focus on and why are they important?

Funding will not 'remotely meet the scale of what’s needed to tackle the unemployment emergency and climate emergency we are facing'.

Retrofitting northern homes with energy-efficiency measures would create jobs needed for recovery from the pandemic.

Climate breakdown concerns voters like never before - so was this reflected in the 2020 US presidential election results?

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) systems put more greenhouse gases into the air than they take out.

Warming of 2°C would release billions of tonnes of soil carbon.

Boris Johnson's Tory government yet to deliver the scale of investment needed to lead the world towards a low carbon future.

The US president elect has promised $2 Trillion for renewable energy and other climate measures over four years.

A plan to pipe hydrogen, instead of natural gas, into millions of UK homes is being pushed hard by the fossil fuel industry.

Spoof HSBC adverts accuse the bank of 'climate colonialism' and call for an end to its financing of fossil fuels.

It is a year until the make-or-break talks of COP26 in Glasgow, and making the shift to net zero has never been more urgent. As hosts of the next set of climate talks, the UK has a responsibility to make swift progress.

Letters sent to government urging action ahead of a UK-UN climate summit on December 12 marking fifth anniversary of Paris Agreement.

When peatland is degraded, drained and burned it releases carbon, worsening climate change.