Committee On Climate Change

UK Climate Minister says government will ask climate watchdog to consider how UK could meet 1.5C Paris target

BREAKING: Judge adjourns permission hearing on crucial challenge to the government's long term emissions goals, as legal battle continues

Campaign group Plan B will find out today whether it will be granted a full hearing to challenge the UK government over its failure to set more ambitions statutory emissions goals

Labour's Alan Whitehead argues the CCC's politely worded warnings about the weaknesses in UK climate policy demands an urgent and ambitious response from government

Parts of the business community must up their game in the UK fight against climate change, argues Committee on Climate Change Chair Lord Deben

Committee on Climate Change gives Clean Growth Strategy a mixed reception, welcoming change in tone towards climate action but warning pledges don't go far enough to meet legal targets

Wales should seek to reduce 1990 emissions by 23 per cent by 2020 and 35 per cent by 2025, according to the UK's Committee on Climate Change

Former environment secretary Lord Deben and IFS economist Paul Johnson will both serve a further five-year term on the statutory government advisory body

BBC reports former chief scientist Sir David King is backing legal action against the government over failure to follow up on proposal for binding zero emission target

Committee on Climate Change says policies needed to reach 2050 goal of 90% reduction are too weak and ill thought out