Climate Change Act

Energy experts appearing in front of BEIS select committees warn it is crucial UK remains part of European Emissions Trading System

New report maps the social, technical and economic barriers to cutting emissions to zero across the UK in the next two decades - but is a four-day working week and a ban on public advertising really the answer?

The paper - which calls for a "flexible" approach to decarbonisation and for energy prices to take top priority in decision making - accused of cherry picking data and making "out-of-date claims"

Without a clear plan, targets under the Climate Change Act could slide out of reach, fears WWF-UK's Gareth Redmond-King

Official data credits increased use of renewables and nuclear and decline of coal for sharp fall in UK emissions

Campaigners blast government claim Heathrow can be delivered under climate targets as 'wishful thinking'

But Green Paper stresses government commitment to cutting emissions is 'settled policy position'

Lord Deben writes to Business Secretary Greg Clark to voice fears that government's current business case for Heathrow expansion assumes an increase in emissions

Reviving the Climate Change Act will spark a new wave of green investment, argues ClientEarth's Jonathan Church

The idea so-called lukewarmism can be used to justify a slowdown in decarbonisation efforts fails to understand basic principles of risk management