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The UK government’s official advisory Climate Change Committee (CCC) has now published its recommendations for the country’s “seventh carbon budget”, covering the period from 2038 to 2042.

A new study reassures people that the nightmare disaster movie scenario of Atlantic Ocean currents collapsing, with weather running amok putting Europe in a deep freeze, looks unlikely this century thanks to a rescue from around Antarctica

The US decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement has raised questions about whether progress can still be made on global policy to mitigate climate change. To explore these questions, Imraan Valodia, pro vice-chancellor: climate, sustainability and inequality and director of the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University…

If the UK is to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, over one-third of its sheep and cows will have to go, with their fields being replaced by huge new areas of woodland. That’s one conclusion of the latest report by the the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the UK government’s…

Climate Change Committee issues advice to government on meeting carbon emissions target by 2050

The Climate Change Committee is recommending a 87% cut in UK greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.

The advisory Climate Change Committee says a third of the emissions reductions needed in 15 years will come from household action

But the Climate Change Committee is being ‘less prescriptive’ on airport capacity than in previous advice to Government.

Modelling shows that, by mid-century, households would save about £700 a year on heating bills

A round-trip to New York could be £300 more expensive

Rising temperatures and nutrient pollution allows for the growth of algal blooms that can impact drinking water and kill wildlife