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

To even contemplate such an outcome would be thoroughly reckless. And this is why Piers Forster, climate academic, is totally unfit to be in charge of climate decision making. And as is ever the case, while we are trying...

Emma Pinchbeck is best known as Deputy Chief Executive at Renewable UK, the lobby group for renewables. Prior to joining RenewableUK, she was head of the Climate Change team at environmental watchdog WWF-UK.

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

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

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

The scandal, published in the Sunday Telegraph, is just the latest of a series of controversies that have dogged the CCC since its inception.

The insanity of Net Zero becomes clearer by the day.

Climate committee urges government not to relax future targets after UK overachieved in 2018-22, in part thanks to lockdowns

Even at the cost of impoverishing its citizens, Britain’s political elite has striven in its hubris to make the country a global “climate leader” in the United Nations-led drive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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For 18 months, and British PM Rishi Sunak has failed to appoint a new Climate Change Committee chairman. Now the Chief Executive of the committee just resigned.

Government challenged to explain claim that UK will need 25% of energy to come from fossil fuels in 2050

All-party climate group says backing away from green policies would be catastrophic for the economy

Climate Change Committee recommends leaving energy charter treaty, which critics say is ‘weaponised’ by fossil fuel firms