The Latest Breaking News from ECIU

In October 2024, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch declared herself a “net zero sceptic”, but “not a climate sceptic”. Most recently she doubled down, announcing plans to scrap the 2030 ban on new petrol cars in a 900-word Sunday Telegraph article that did not mention climate change once.

Researchers warn that net zero has become politicised by populists as “shorthand” for attacking climate policy.

Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded

Sean Matthews, the Reform UK leader of Lincolnshire County Council, has said he’ll “lie down in front of bulldozers” to stop Britain’s largest solar farm being built in the county. He’s taking sides in a new rural culture war that pits green energy against the countryside’s traditional image of food…

Provisional Government data suggests a much worse harvest than experts had so far predicted.

Experts warned that the wheat deficit could grow, with 2025 likely to see another poor harvest.

Worsening droughts and floods have destroyed wheat for 4bn loaves of bread and forced record levels of imports

Experts say another poor harvest in 2025 would mean that three of the five worst since records began all occurred this decade.

Honda had the largest decrease for UK EV sales in the first six months of 2025.