Climate Change Act

New Conservative leader has declared herself a 'net zero sceptic', but experts warn she will need a plan to boost green investment and meet the UK's legally binding emissions targets

Ministers' decision not to rollover surplus emissions savings into the next Carbon Budget period is good news, but it also hands a huge challenge to whoever forms the next government

DESNZ announces it will not rollover surplus emissions achieved during the last Carbon Budget

Politicians and campaigners criticise Ministers for delivering an inadequate net zero strategy for a second time

Judge orders Judicial Review of National Adaptation Programme following latest legal action targeting the government’s climate policies

TV presenter and conservationist is just the latest to take the government to court over its approach to net zero policy

The CCC's advice on what to do with the Third Carbon Budget's pandemic-boosted emissions savings is unequivocal - the government must resist the temptation to cynically weaken the UK's world-leading climate targets

Government will be putting climate goals at risk if it decides to loosen future carbon budgets, climate advisors warn

Conservative peer and former chair of the Climate Change Committee submits witness statement in support of legal action accusing government of breaching Climate Change Act

Environmental Audit Committee publishes proposals for how Parliament can have greater say in how Carbon Budgets are set as they are being planned