Climate Change Act

Director-general of Britain's largest business group warns calls to scrap the Climate Change Act and row back on clean energy risk 'undermining investment and undermining opportunity' in the UK

Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary urges green businesses to ignore the 'siren voices' that are railing against the net zero transition

But conference speech provides no indication as to what promised strategy would entail, beyond support for new nuclear projects and reforms to curb electricity bills

Sam Fankhauser from the University of Oxford warns the Conservative's plans to ditch the Climate Change Act could prove a political, environmental, and economic own goal

EXCLUSIVE: Coalition of charities, including National Trust, WWF, and the RSPB, call on Kemi Badenoch to "reflect on the Conservative Party's proud record of environmental leadership"

Coalition of 124 Labour, Lib Dem, Green, and SNP Parliamentarians warn ditching climate legislation would be catastrophic for the UK's economy and standing on the world stage

Kemi Badenoch's pledge to scrap the Climate Change Act is an affront to a proud conservative tradition and a recipe for economic irrelevance

Business groups respond with anger to Conservative vow to scrap the Climate Change Act it once championed, warning move would undermine investment, lead to lost jobs, and fuel worsening climate risks

Kemi Badenoch accused of a "desperate attempt to sound like Donald Trump on climate change", as business and green groups slam "a new low point" for the Tories

The Tory leader has just torched the political consensus on ambitious climate action - the electoral calculus is likely to prove as deeply flawed as the economic analysis behind the move