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Using North Sea gas saved Britain billions last year, analysis shows amid calls for more drilling

Last week the government denied that Ed Miliband is expected to give the green light to the first major North Sea field project in almost 10 years

The Independent UK

Lamb costs soared over last three years due to climate change – report

Easter lamb prices have increased by up to a fifth due to weather ‘shocks’ hitting the UK, according to the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit.

Evening Standard

The reason why your roast lamb will cost more this Easter

Prices for a typical 2kg leg of lamb have increased sharply since 2022

The Independent UK

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Kemi Badenoch pledges to fully axe carbon tax if Tories regain power

The Tory leader said she would get rid of the emissions trading scheme which was brought in by a Conservative government in 2021.

Evening Standard

A third inflationary shock in less than a decade is coming: who will pay the price this time around?

Brutal past experience has taught us that a cost of living crisis doesn’t affect us all the same, because we don’t all go into it with the same income or wealth, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

EV leasing could save drivers over £1,300 a year as fuel prices rise

New analysis finds electric cars cheaper to lease and run than petrol equivalents – even more so amid volatile oil markets

The Independent UK

‘Seriously wrong’: flood-hit Lincolnshire residents at odds with Reform MP over climate

Constituents’ frustration with Richard Tice reflects growing problem for party and its leaders’ climate-sceptic stance

The Guardian - UK

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European drivers face €220 a year jump in fuel costs due to Iran conflict, say experts

Exclusive: Oil at $100 a barrel means higher prices in the EU and UK, making savings for those with electric vehicles even greater, analysts say

The Guardian - UK

UK drivers reveal why they are not switching to electric vehicles

One think tank suggests drivers are ‘holding back from making the shift’ to electric motoring

The Independent UK

Energy crisis cost Scottish economy £11bn, study finds

The report shows soaring gas prices cost Scottish households an additional £5.8 billion between 2021-24.

Evening Standard

‘The trend is irreversible’: has Romania shattered the link between economic growth and high emissions?

Emissions have plunged 75% since communist times in the birthplace of big oil – but for some the transition has been brutal

The Guardian - UK

UK new car buyers drive a bargain as average discount nears £6,000

Motorists benefit as industry offers deals of up to 18% off to attract buyers for petrol, diesel and electric models

The Guardian - UK

UK and EU tree planting pledges face reality check as scientists warn the climate window is closing

The UK and EU both have ambitious targets for planting new trees to help meet climate targets. But how much progress has actually been made?

Euronews

We analysed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing ‘climate change’ from net zero

In October 2024, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch declared herself a “net zero sceptic”, but “not a climate sceptic”. Most recently she doubled down, announcing plans to scrap the 2030 ban on new petrol cars in a 900-word Sunday Telegraph article that did not mention climate change once.

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UK newspapers can’t stop talking about net zero. But where’s the mention of climate change?

Researchers warn that net zero has become politicised by populists as “shorthand” for attacking climate policy.

The Independent UK

UK car industry ‘on track’ to meet 2025 EV sales target

The mandate requires at least 28 per cent of cars sold to be zero-emission

Euronews

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.

The Guardian - UK

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

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The Independent 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 Guardian - UK

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 Conversation

‘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 Independent UK

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 Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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.

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