Climate Change Committee

Keir Starmer to unveil ambitious new UK climate goal at Cop29

Exclusive: Target is 81% emissions cut compared with 1990, but activists say it must be backed by plan of action

Fiona Harvey and Ajit Niranjan in Baku

11, Nov, 2024 @7:41 PM

No need to be so down on carbon capture | Letter

Letter: Both the IPCC and CCC support a crucial role for it, John Rhys writes, and they are are serious bodies with access to the best expertise

22, Oct, 2024 @4:24 PM

Energy industry trade body chief to head UK’s climate watchdog

Emma Pinchbeck will take over as chief executive of Climate Change Committee next month

Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

08, Oct, 2024 @11:01 PM

UK may unveil tougher emissions targets at Cop29 climate summit

Campaigners hail Labour’s ‘proactive approach’ after series of policy U-turns under Conservatives

Fiona Harvey Environment editor

29, Aug, 2024 @5:58 PM

Labour must ramp up renewable energy to meet 2030 climate vows, says watchdog

CCC says delays and reverses under Rishi Sunak have left UK drastically off track from Paris commitments

Fiona Harvey Environment editor

18, Jul, 2024 @5:00 AM

‘Disappointing and surprising’: Why isn’t this a climate election in the UK?

More than 400 scientists write to political parties urging ambitious action or risk making Britain and the world ‘more dangerous and insecure’

Jonathan Watts

10, Jun, 2024 @5:00 AM

The Guardian view on net zero: a bank-led green transition won’t work for Britain | Editorial

Editorial: A state industrial strategy is needed to reduce carbon output, produce cleaner growth and redistribute jobs around the UK

Editorial

19, May, 2024 @4:30 PM

UK is failing to put climate crisis at centre of national security measures, MPs told

Experts say changing climate is ‘threat multiplier’ and that US and Germany already include it in planning

Fiona Harvey Environment editor

14, May, 2024 @5:37 PM

Net zero has become unhelpful slogan, says outgoing head of UK climate watchdog

Chris Stark says populist response and culture war around the term is inhibiting environmental progress

Fiona Harvey Environment editor

22, Apr, 2024 @6:06 PM

Sunak has ‘set Britain back’ on net zero, says UK’s climate adviser

Chris Stark, head of the Climate Change Committee, says Tories’ decision to dilute key green policies has had huge diplomatic impact

Michael Savage Policy editor

20, Apr, 2024 @5:11 PM

There’s no such thing as a benign beef farm – so beware the ‘eco-friendly’ new film straight out of a storybook | George Monbiot

A highly misleading new documentary claims soil carbon storage can redeem the livestock industry – it’s all so much ‘moo-woo’, says the Guardian columnist George Monbiot

George Monbiot

15, Apr, 2024 @7:00 AM