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In Deep Water: As Europe’s Drought Worsens, the Government Remains Silent on Water Company Failures
The Conservatives' inaction to alleviate droughts in England is indicative of the party's wider ideological failings, writes Iain Overton

Can Plans to Decarbonise Heavy Industry in South Wales Deliver?
Andrew Taylor-Dawson reports on £30bn plan which relies on controversial ‘carbon capture’ and appears to be dependent on developing a deregulated Welsh freeport

UN Ocean Treaty: ‘A Step Forward, but Achieving Action will be the Real Test’
Many countries fail to protect, or even actively exploit, their coastal marine reserves – how will new initiatives be different?

‘Courts of Conscience and the Climate Emergency’
Tom Hardy explores the role of the judiciary in combatting the climate emergency as activists are prohibited from mentioning the issue in their defence in court

Aviation Growth and Decarbonisation: A Circle You Can’t Square
A new report casts further doubt over the Government's Jet Zero strategy and its inherent contradictions, reports Andrew Taylor-Dawson

UK’s Biggest Polluter Doubles Profits while Raking In Hundreds of Millions in Government Subsidies
The UK gives more to bioenergy firms than any other country in the world, reports Rachel Donald

‘Young People are Being Let Down by Politics on the Climate Crisis’
The climate crisis is at the top of young people's agenda but political parties are failing to meet their concerns. Is electoral reform the only hope of change?

Preparing UK’s Homes for Extreme Weather ‘Chronically Under-Funded’, New Report Finds
Adaptation to the effects of climate change remains 'overlooked', according to a new report by the Government's independent advisory body on tackling the issue
Hundreds of ‘Toxic’ North Sea Oil Spills Since 2019
Sam Bright reports on the scale of pollution being pumped into the North Sea
Concerns that Government’s Finance Bill Benefits Big Money and Harms the Planet
The Financial Services and Markets Bill risks wrecking the UK's commitment to net zero, writes Thomas Perrett
EXCLUSIVE Labour MPs Quit Parliamentary Lobbying Group Set Up to Slash Tax on Petrol as Ties to Big Polluters Emerge
One Labour MP quit after a report by the APPG criticising the move to electric vehicles was backed by the Global Warming Policy Foundation – often described as the most high-profile climate 'sceptic' body in the UK
Activists ‘Brandalise’ London Underground Adverts to Shame Barclays Bank over Fossil Fuel Investments
Climate campaigners are taking to ‘adbusting’ to get their message across and target oil and gas funders, Josiah Mortimer reports
How the Gas Industry is Trying to Rehabilitate Fossil Fuels
Thomas Perrett reports on the new methods used by big energy associations to influence the media and those in power
Energy Firms’ Fossil Fuel Investments Radically At Odds with Climate Change Obligations
Big energy companies are piling money into increasingly inefficient oil and gas investments, reports Thomas Perrett
Sea Creature Discoveries to Huge Threats to Sea Life: A Year of Marine Highs and Lows
Stuart Spray reports on the inspiring work being done to restore the UK's seas and coastlines and the bad news threatening to undermine this
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