Latest updates: PM says online harms bill will include criminal sanctions for allowing ‘foul content’ onlineBoris Johnson promises online harms bill debate before ChristmasCoronavirus – latest global updatesDame Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan police c…
Want to know what a just transition to a green economy looks like? Ask the workers | Anna Markova
People don’t need catchprases: they need resources and empowerment so they can secure good green jobsAnna Markova is the Trades Union Congress’s co-lead on climate and industrial policyIf you really want to know what a just transition looks like, don’t…
Pathway to a sustainable economy | Letters
Dr Patrick O’Sullivan and Tony Brauer respond to George Monbiot’s claim that ‘there is no such thing as green growth’George Monbiot (‘Green growth’ doesn’t exist – less of everything is the only way to avert catastrophe, 29 September) has written more …
The trillions in our pension pots could be key to tackling the climate crisis | Richard Curtis
Ahead of Cop26, the UK could take the lead in diverting investments away from carbon emittersRichard Curtis is a filmmaker and activistSomeone said something so simple yet so shocking to me recently: that weather used to be the last thing on the news, …
660,000 jobs at risk as UK’s green investment lags
TUC report says producers that don’t clean up operations will wither and die as rivals blaze trail towards carbon net zeroUp to 660,000 jobs will be at serious risk if the UK continues to fall behind other countries in the amount it invests in green in…
Why is this clean hybrid car taxed at almost the same rate as a Ferrari?
A retired bishop faces a bigger tax bill after swapping his old diesel VW for an environmentally friendly vehicleA retired bishop who replaced a polluting diesel car with a much greener plug-in hybrid model has described the government’s environmental …
Ministers face showdowns on post-Brexit green bill weeks before Cop26
Peers’ challenge to government may see it arguing for lower environmental standards at home while hosting global summitMinisters are facing a fortnight of showdowns with peers over weak post-Brexit green protections just weeks before the Cop26 summit o…
North Sea oil was battered by Covid, but now faces much deadlier waves
Since the pandemic hit, the world’s altered attitude to fossil fuels is throwing doubt over the industry’s futureThe UK’s North Sea oil industry may have survived one of the darkest market downturns in history during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the deep…
Retrofitting: why carbon-reducing renovations are going to be big business
Draughty homes contribute to 14% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, but a wave of eco-refurbs is changing thatUK government ‘failing to help local leaders achieve net zero’When Boris Afinogenov moved to Liverpool from Lithuania in 2011, he knew that…
Millions of UK homes could be heated with hydrogen by 2030
Government sets out plan for low-carbon economy that could also create thousands of jobsAbout 3 million households in the UK could begin using low-carbon hydrogen to heat their homes and cook rather than fossil fuel gas under government proposals to at…