Climate change

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Government hopes £5.2bn flood defence plan and lower emissions can protect UK homes and businesses

Home secretary plans to increase penalties for disrupting motorways amid road protest chaos

Jeremy Corbyn’s brother is a leading anti-vaccination campaigner

PM tells world leaders to ‘grow up’ on tackling climate change

Delegates expected to land in Scotland in matter of weeks

Fears grow that the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter will not co-operate at forthcoming climate talks

Hundreds of lives have been claimed by devastating weather this year

International survey finds one in four young people ‘hesitant’ about starting families amid global warming fears

Rollout of the vehicles being hampered by lack of tech infrastructure

Experts say the technology could reduce current greenhouse gas levels within years

Experts question efficiency and effectiveness of unregulated schemes that allegedly cancel out travel emissions

Urban populations in coastal areas face most severe impacts from rising temperatures

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The ‘awkward squad’ are threatening to make trouble over net zero

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Details still needed on who will bear cost of upfront investment

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Public in favour of greater clean energy investment and limits on flying

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Experts say government intervention will be key in tackling environmental crisis

Landmark study says global temperatures likely to rise by 1.5C over next 20 years

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British firefighters deployed to Greece to help battle devastating blaze threatening capital city

This summer of climate horror feels like the ‘first, vertiginous 15 minutes of a disaster movie’, says The New York Times

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Study warns of famine, extreme cold and rising sea levels if planet’s key heat distributor shuts down

Ambitious resolution provides ‘framework’ for future climate plans

‘Every day, new evidence accumulates that humanity is on an unsustainable path’

Experts rank island nations at top of ‘most resilient’ list

Britain is warming more quickly than global average over past decade, says study

Scientists say nuclear power is essential to efforts to tackle climate change

An unpublished London Underground report identified 85 Tube stations as being at ‘high risk’ of flooding