Councils have no formal duties to reduce emissions, and there is a huge temptation for local politicians to look the other way.
- Chair of Energy and Climate Governance, University of Manchester
Here’s what the 2024 UK election revealed about public appetite for tackling climate change.
Looming carbon budget deadlines pose a challenge for the UK’s flagship climate legislation.
Members of the public devised a raft of measures to make homes greener.
After years of complex legal processes and misinformation, the mine’s fate hangs in the balance.
This is a transcript of part 3 of Climate Fight: the world’s biggest negotiation, a series from The Anthill podcast.
Listen to the third episode of a new series from The Anthill Podcast ahead of the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow.
How Joe Biden could unite the US behind plans to tackle climate change.
After his landslide victory, Boris Johnson declared his ambition to make his country ‘the cleanest, greenest on Earth’. Here’s what he needs to do to prove it.
As the UN’s Climate Action Summit approaches, governments need to start doing more than setting targets. Here’s how they can make a start.
The Committee on Climate Change criticises slow progress, but has little to say about how to reconfigure government to make climate action a priority.
A citizens’ assembly can help identify what the people want. Because if climate action is not democratic, it’s not realistic.
Cumbria council has approved the £165m Woodhouse colliery – and highlighted the failings of national climate policy.
By making people confront the scale of the climate challenge, the Green New Deal is a great leap forward.
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