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Economic growth has been linked to rising emissions for decades. Now, the ‘opposite is happening’

A decade on from the Paris Agreement, and the link between GDP and rising emissions is starting to break.

Euronews

Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds

Analysis marking 10 years since Paris climate agreement underscores effectiveness of strong government policies

The Guardian - UK

It’s cheaper to run an EV in the UK than it is in Germany

British electric car drivers are saving £540 more on running costs than their German counterparts

The Independent UK

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UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record

Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded

The Guardian - UK

‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war

Sean Matthews, the Reform UK leader of Lincolnshire County Council, has said he’ll “lie down in front of bulldozers” to stop Britain’s largest solar farm being built in the county. He’s taking sides in a new rural culture war that pits green energy against the countryside’s traditional image of food…

The Conversation

England sees second worst harvest on record, analysis shows

Provisional Government data suggests a much worse harvest than experts had so far predicted.

The Independent UK

Year’s worth of British bread lost since 2020 amid extreme weather – analysis

Experts warned that the wheat deficit could grow, with 2025 likely to see another poor harvest.

The Independent UK

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One year’s worth of bread lost in UK to wrecked harvests since 2020, report finds

Worsening droughts and floods have destroyed wheat for 4bn loaves of bread and forced record levels of imports

The Guardian - UK

UK harvest on course for near record low after drought hits crops – analysis

Experts say another poor harvest in 2025 would mean that three of the five worst since records began all occurred this decade.

Evening Standard

Japanese car firms at bottom of UK electric sales ranking

Honda had the largest decrease for UK EV sales in the first six months of 2025.

Evening Standard

British potatoes and Spanish olives: How climate extremes are pushing up food prices

The study highlights how climate-driven food price spikes can aggravate public health risks and social unrest.

Euronews

More than 80% of UK farmers worried about climate crisis harming livelihood, study finds

Farmers warn of risk to Britain’s food supply as more than three-quarters take hit to income from extreme weather

The Guardian - UK

Heatwave to peak with temperatures of up to 35C in likely hottest day of year

Tuesday could be the hottest day of the year so far as extreme heat warnings remain in place.

Evening Standard

UK farmers lost £1bn in arable income after extreme wet weather, data show

Fears are growing that farmers could be facing another terrible harvest this year following the hottest spring on record.

Evening Standard

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Evening Standard

‘On a knife edge’ – hot dry spring threatens arable harvest

Analysis suggests the harvest could be one of the worst in records stretching back to the 1980s.

The Independent UK

Farmers’ harvest in limbo after UK endures driest spring in nearly 70 years

The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) think tank warns that climate change is already having a ‘devastating’ impact on farmers

The Guardian - UK

Poor building standards add £1,000 to energy bills of new homes, analysis finds

About £5bn more spent than if rules for low-carbon new-builds had not been scrapped in 2016, ECIU thinktank finds

Evening Standard

EVs could power homes if UK suffers major power cut – think tank

The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit said 60% of an EV’s battery is capable of providing nearly six days of electricity for a typical UK home.

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The Independent UK

Families could save £1,000 a year by switching to electric vehicles – but there are two big issues to consider

The government have changed their Zero Emission Vehicle mandate which could see more hybrids instead flood the market

The Guardian - UK

Motorists ‘could save £850 a year by choosing an electric car over a hybrid’

Owners of hybrids save only £13 a year compared with petrol equivalents, thinktank says

The Independent UK

Chocolate prices up nearly 50 per cent in three years as ‘Chocflation’ persists

Chocolate prices are going up year on year making Easter a more expensive time

Evening Standard

Chocolate prices up by almost half in three years

Chocolate price inflation is accelerating as climate change hits West African cocoa producers, the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit said.

The Independent UK

Decarbonising home heating at risk from weakened policies, think tank warns

Two key policies to drive up heat pump installations have been beset by delays or softened by ministers over time, researchers said.

Evening Standard

New car tax rules could ‘undermine consumer confidence’ in EVs, Treasury warned

The Treasury will remove EVs’ exemption from vehicle excise duty – known as car tax – from Tuesday.

Evening Standard

Relaxing sales rules could mean there ‘aren’t enough electric cars to go round’

Think tank the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) said this would significantly increase the cost of driving for millions of motorists.

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