Green New Deal

We have a clear plan to meet the demands of the climate strikers, argues Green MEP Molly Scott Cato

Commentators welcome promised step change in net zero infrastructure investment, but warn meeting 2030 target would be 'extremely difficult', if not politically impossible

Business Declares initiative launches in support of Global Strike, as millions around the world take to streets to demand climate action

Latest report from Commonwealth think tank argues subsidy reforms and carbon taxes could see a quarter of UK land returned to nature

New green business group wants to accelerate climate across EU economy

Senator Kamala Harris teams up with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to table Climate Equity Act, as leading candidate up decarbonisation plans

Former German Defence Minister becomes first female European Commission President. securing narrow parliamentary approval after promising increased climate action

Common Wealth argues 'tinkering at the margins' of the economy will not solve the climate crisis - only wholesale re-design will deliver full decarbonisation

Joe Biden, who tops opinion polls in the Democratic primaries, pledges to build a coalition of nations to scrub dirty energy from China's belt and road programme

Populists and the liberal order go head-to-head in a battle for control of Europe this week - The results could define the EU's approach to the climate crisis for years to come