UK alone spends €5.7bn and Germany €12bn but analysis finds subsidies often go towards most polluting fleet vehicles
UK and European governments give companies subsidies worth €32bn (£29bn) a year…
Measure also stops businesses from supplying customers with plastic stirrers and cotton buds.
A ban on plastic straws which was delayed due to coronavirus has come into force.
Businesses in…
Number of people living with illegal pollution levels has fallen by 94% since Sadiq Khan became mayor
Air pollution in London has plunged since Sadiq Khan became mayor, with a 94% reduction in the…
A £12.50 a day charge will affect 350,000 motorists from next October when the Ultra Low Emission Zone is expanded.
The streets of London are set to become cleaner. And drivers who have cars that do…
Energy experts say record rise in new gas boilers installed shows UK going in wrong direction
Ministers must come forward with stringent new plans for low-carbon heating, as targets to insulate…
PM vows to make Britain world leader in low-cost clean power with ‘Build Back Greener’ drive.
Boris Johnson will promise to power every home in the UK with offshore wind energy within a decade,…
Cambridge University is to cease investments in fossil fuels by 2030, it has announced.
At the same time, its £3.5 billion endowment fund will "ramp up" investments in renewable energy.
Vice-…
Documents show BP, Shell and Equinor had several meetings with government officials.
Fossil fuel firms have held a series of private meetings with UK government officials in an attempt to be part of…
Release of CO2 from UKCS rigs was much greater than Norwegian and Danish regions.
Britain’s oil and gas rigs are the most polluting in the North Sea oil basin, according to industry data, with…
London — The UK has announced it will launch an Energy Transition Council in a bid to speed up a shift from coal to renewable energy in developing countries.
The announcement came at the start of…
UK government said it failed on two-thirds of targets, but RSPB analysis is bleaker – and suggests UK is moving backwards in some areas.
The UK has failed to reach 17 out of 20 UN biodiversity…
Britain needs to step up and become a global leader in climate action, creating a number of green jobs and boosting productivity to help the economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic, the CBI…
Insurance market says claims totalled £2.4bn in first half of 2020, leading to £400m loss.
Lloyd’s of London, the world’s biggest insurance market, has said it expects up to £5bn to be paid out in…
The secretive way in which plastic recycling is handled in the UK carries the potential for the next big scandal. While the government's statutory guidance is supposed to clarify who is responsible, …
At least 300 more people in UK died than average in second week of August.
While attention was focused on Covid-19, a spike in death rates in the UK during the second week of August slipped past…
National papers missing from some newsagents after protesters blockading Murdoch-owned print sites.
The prime minister, Boris Johnson, has accused Extinction Rebellion of seeking “to limit the…
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