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The Latest Breaking News from the Climate Change Committee

London City airport expansion given green light by ministers

Climate campaigners criticise decision to allow capacity to increase from 6.5m to 9m passengers a year

The Guardian - UK

London City airport: 54% of journeys take under six hours by train, data shows

Exclusive: Most popular routes can be reached quickly by train, as government mulls expansion proposal

The Guardian - UK

Sunak’s weakening of climate targets ‘retrograde’, says former Tory minister

Claire O’Neill, a former climate minister, says PM’s move was to ‘try and create political division and dividing lines’

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Sunak has ‘set Britain back’ on net zero, says UK’s climate adviser

Chris Stark, head of the Climate Change Committee, says Tories’ decision to dilute key green policies has had huge diplomatic impact

The Guardian - UK

Scotland Revises Greenhouse Gas Emission Targets

Scottish government reevaluates climate targets due to challenges in meeting emission reduction goals.

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Devolved leaders reject shortlist for climate watchdog chair over Tory links

Refusal by Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish leaders to approve candidates means whole recruitment process may have to be rerun

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak Under Fire for Failing to Appoint New Climate Committee Chief

The watchdog, responsible for advising the UK government on climate policy, has been without a leader for 18 months since the departure of former chief Lord Deben.

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Offering oil and gas licences every year distracts from the challenge of winding down UK North Sea

New areas for oil and gas development on the UK’s North Sea continental shelf are to be made available through annual licensing rounds subject to net zero tests. These proposals by the UK government, outlined in the 2023 king’s speech to parliament, fly in the face of recommendations by the…

The Conversation

Scotland and Wales call for UK-wide climate summit after 'no engagement' on net zero

The environment ministers in Scotland and Wales have called for a UK-wide climate summit following the Prime Minister’s net zero announcements…

The National (Scotland)

Khan dismisses Sunak’s attack on his housebuilding record in London as ‘desperate nonsense’ – as it happened

Mayor of London hits back at prime minister over ‘pathetic gesture politics’

The Guardian - UK

Labour urged to work with Tories to counter ‘ignorant’ climate policy attacks

Tory former minister and chair of Climate Change Committee condemns ‘absolutely unacceptable’ attacks on Labour stance

The Guardian - UK

Outgoing climate tsar slams SNP and Tories' record on environmental targets

Lord Deben, who has just finished a 10-year term as chair of the Climate Change Committee, slammed both governments for failing to hit their green targets.

Daily Record

UK airports say they can reach net zero and still expand. Is it just pie in the sky?

Despite the Climate Change Committee’s warnings to stop growing capacity, Gatwick is gearing up for another try at a second runway

The Guardian - UK

Campaigners win right to challenge England’s food strategy over climate crisis

Feedback argues ministers’ failure to include measures to reduce production of meat and dairy products was unlawful

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The Conversation

Climate change is accelerating – and the UK government is 'strikingly unprepared'

Read successive progress reports by the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the UK government’s statutory advisor on climate change, and you sense the growing frustration. Over the years, the CCC’s assessments of the government’s response to the climate crisis have become more critical, its recommendations more explicit and the tone more…

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