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Jacob Rees-Mogg

Jacob Rees-Mogg: Climate change concern over new energy policy chief

7 September 2022

Jacob Rees-Mogg, who now oversees the UK government department responsible for energy and climate change, recently called to extract "every last drop" of oil and gas from the North Sea


Climate change protesters holding signs in a large crowd

Germany’s new coalition government may boost climate change action

27 September 2021

Against a backdrop of climate change protests across German cities, the centre-left Social Democratic Party narrowly won the election and now plans to create a coalition to tackle the issue


Is Boris Johnson's climate plan enough for the UK to hit net zero?

Is Boris Johnson's climate plan enough for the UK to hit net zero?

18 November 2020

The UK’s new 10-point climate plan is the first big step towards meeting a target of net zero emissions by 2050, but it doesn’t have the funding to make new climate policies a reality


The Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the launch of the next COP26 UN Climate Summit at the Science Museum, London.

We can’t let Boris Johnson politicise crucial COP26 climate talks

5 February 2020

The most important climate talks for years are already becoming political. This needs to stop if we have any chance of success at COP26, says Adam Vaughan


Climate debate

General election 2019: Who is strongest on climate change action?

25 November 2019

The "climate election" has seen an almost daily bidding war on who will plant the most trees, insulate homes the fastest and produce the most green electricity. Here's our guide to navigating the claims


Traffic jam

UK government's post-Brexit environment bill comes in for criticism

23 October 2019

The UK government’s plans for environment laws after Brexit are still not fit for purpose in parts, according to the parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee


Eight things we learned in the UK government's pre-Johnson info dump

Eight things we learned in the UK government's pre-Johnson info dump

23 July 2019

Air pollution, plastic packaging, nuclear power plants, genome sequencing: just before Boris Johnson becomes prime minister, the UK government has put out dozens of documents. Here's what you need to know


Cleared forest (orange) and cattle ranches (light green) around the Juruena River in Brazil

Deforestation in Brazil has rocketed since Bolsonaro became president

22 July 2019

More than 3700 square kilometres of Brazilian rainforest has been cleared since Jair Bolsonaro became president, but he has dismissed the data as "lies"


School climate strikers

We’re living through a climate emergency. Time to start acting like it

20 June 2019

It’s not enough to call climate change an emergency, says Adam Vaughan. We need to take emergency action as well


Trump and May

Donald Trump and Theresa May discuss climate change, Huawei and trade

4 June 2019

US president Donald Trump is on his first state visit to the UK. Amid the ceremony and speeches, he discussed cybersecurity with UK Prime Minister Theresa May


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