This year is on course to be the UK's hottest since records began, according to the Met Office, as climate change continues to drive temperatures to new heights: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The UK car industry is on course to meet zero-emission vehicle mandate targets this year, analysis finds: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/depa...

Have written for @financialtimes.com on the dangers of been see to pitch house building against nature. Britain desperately needs more homes, but if you force a nature/building binary, it is the latter that will lose in the court of public opinion. www.ft.com/content/f456...

‘Massive disruption’: UK’s worst-case #climatecrisis scenarios revealed by scientists - Scientists say government must be prepared for unlikely but ‘plausible’ 4C rise in temperature and a 2-metre rise in sea levels Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Met Office global average temperature forecast for 2026 suggests another year above 1.4 °C compared to pre-industrial levels (1850-1900), being the fourth year in succession exceeding 1.4 °C. Prior to this surge, the global temperature has never exceeded 1.3 °C. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/491qWrE

Carmakers sour on EU’s ‘disastrous’ petrol engine rule changes [that they lobbied so hard for - oops!] HT @carbonbrief.org www.ft.com/content/5265...

Coming up today: EU to relent on combustion engines ban after auto industry pressure What we know so far about the EU's plan to weaken its main climate policy for cars 👇 Story by Philip Blenkinsop www.reuters.com/business/aut...

The Conservatives are threatening to abandon the phaseout date for petrol and diesel cars should they win the next election There are so many reasons this is an awful idea you wonder whether any thought has been involved Let me run through them 🧵🧵 1/7 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Latest blog is on the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement and how the treaty is under greater threat than ever before, but it has already delivered a world-historic achievement in the way the past decade has built out the foundations for a net zero economy. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...

Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world - study - Analysis @eciu.net marking 10 years since Paris climate agreement underscores effectiveness of strong government policies #climatecrisis Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Second hottest year on record. Average temperature for the past 3 years more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. 10 hottest years on record the last 10 years. It remains truly mind-blowing this is not the biggest story in the world every day. www.businessgreen.com/news/4522952...

‘Zombie’ electricity projects in Britain face axe to ease quicker grid connections - Backlog delaying ‘shovel-ready’ ventures will be cleared with aim of building virtually zero-carbon power system by 2030 #netzero www.theguardian.com/business/202...

2025 was heat and drought. 2024 was incessant rain Three of the five worst British harvests on record have now occurred since 2020 Some farmers are asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ICYM - Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds - Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times *EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025* Receipts in thread.

😢 UN climate talks fail to secure new fossil fuel promises www.bbc.com/news/article...

The scriptwriters need a little more nuance. This seems kind of heavyhanded www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...

Fire in #COP30 Blue Zone: www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Day 7 at #COP30: Ministers take up the reins with finance a key hurdle for a number of areas; and 70,000 marched in the streets of Belém on Saturday to remind leaders of the urgency. Read it here: mailchi.mp/cb3a08a9db71... Sign up here: shorturl.at/LgPvT

Day 6 at #COP30: roadmaps, roadmaps everywhere, and yet no-one can find a way of sorting between Australia and Türkiye as hosts of COP31. Read it here: mailchi.mp/c7b5badd2ed8... Sign up here: shorturl.at/LgPvT

Day 5 at #COP30. Collective therapy, coffee, Colombian leadership, and the end of week one looms. Read it here: mailchi.mp/102613ea8944... Sign up here: shorturl.at/LgPvT

The new 2025 Global Carbon Budget finds that fossil fuel emissions will reach a new high in 2025. Total CO2 emissions (including land use) remain flat at 2024 levels. While the land sink is up from 2024, carbon sinks are weakening: www.carbonbrief.org/...

China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months, analysis reveals, adding evidence to hope that world’s biggest polluter has managed to hit its target of peak CO2 emissions well ahead of schedule: #COP30 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The Paris agreement is not perfect but don’t write it off on.ft.com/4i1mbCz | opinion

This year is on track to be the second or third warmest globally as an “unprecedented streak” of high temperatures continues, warns @wmo-global.bsky.social: #COP30 www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

World on track for 2.8C warming under current policies UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says progress is “nowhere near fast enough”: #COP30 www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

UK will not invest in #COP30 host Brazil’s Tropical Forest Fund: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

UK Chancellor is considering slashing funding for more energy efficient homes to pay for a reduction in energy bills It would be **such** a foolish thing to do given the impact well-delivered efficiency has on energy bills, health & well being, fuel poverty www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It's not often you get to tell a positive story about climate. But that’s what our new #10YearsPostParis report and #infographic let us do: eciu.net/analysis/inf... The lesson of the last decade? Policy and cooperation matter. Naysayers don't. @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @katharinehayhoe.com

FACTCHECK: The frontpage of today's Daily Telegraph has a very confused story about offshore wind, which is all sorts of wrong It says a technical change means higher subsidies & fewer new windfarms from the upcoming AR7 auction Oopsie! This is the opposite of the truth 🧵

BREAKING: The #StateOfClimateAction 2025 finds the world is failing to act fast enough to combat the climate crisis and secure a livable future, with no indicators of global climate action currently on track for 2030. 🌏🌡️ Read the report to learn more: bit.ly/4o6hPwm

A group of five everyday staples is responsible for much of the UK’s food inflation, with climate change rather than government policy the key driver of rising grocery bills: on.ft.com/4hpb9qv

The waters of the north Pacific have had their warmest summer on record, according to analysis: www.bbc.com/news/article...

A UN meeting to impose a carbon price on shipping for the first time has been adjourned for a year The IMO net zero framework meeting was due to adopt a carbon price first agreed in the spring But the US opposed the adoption, calling it a "scam". Trump appears to have got his way and won a delay

Analysis finds real-world carbon dioxide emissions from plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) nearly five times higher than official figures show: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating - CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening @wmo-global.bsky.social #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Britain must prepare for at least 2C of warming within just 25 years, warns Climate Change Committee: news.sky.com/story/uk-mus...

Such a depressing situation when solid wall insulation can have such an incredible positive impact when installed properly. Designing the policy to deliver it as cheaply as possible without appropriate safeguards was never going to end well: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing long-term decline and risking livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, finds report: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

England has seen its second worst harvest on record, according to @eciu.net analysis of Government figures: www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

"We're building out renewables in a way that minimises the blackout risk." @jessralston.bsky.social from @eciu.net tells LBC News that renewables have helped Britain reach its lowest risk of a winter power blackout in six years.

UK’s national security under severe threat from climate change and looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages and economic disaster potentially just years away, UK’s intelligence chiefs to warn: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Officials in Downing Street have blocked publication of a report warning that the collapse of tropical rainforests could push up food prices in British supermarkets. Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

One year’s worth of bread has been lost in the UK since 2020 due to extreme weather destroying harvests, finds @eciu.net analysis: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Renewable energy overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity in the first half of this year finds @ember-energy.org analysis: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal the Climate Change Act if the Conservatives win the next election: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Pope Leo XIV has hit out at those who minimise the "increasingly evident" impact of rising temperatures in his first major statement on climate change: www.bbc.com/news/article...

NEW: Something remarkable happened recently and hardly anyone noticed – GB electricity demand was 100% covered by clean power We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before 🧵 www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

Growth in global carbon emissions has slowed to just 0.32 per cent a year in the decade since the Paris Agreement was signed in late 2015, shows @eciu.net analysis: www.businessgreen.com/news/4519655...

European way of life is being jeopardised by environmental degradation, finds report. EU officials warn climate breakdown and wildlife loss ‘are ruining ecosystems that underpin the economy’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...