Category: Climate crisis

Room for both Heathrow and Gatwick to expand, says airport boss

Heathrow CEO urges ministers to commit to ‘gateway to growth’ third runway The boss of Heathrow has said there is room for both of London’s biggest airports to expand significantly if the government can...

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UK urged to act now on net zero – and skip two kebabs’ worth of meat a week

Climate Change Committee issues advice to government on meeting carbon emissions target by 2050What would reaching net zero mean for life in 2040s Britain?Giving up two doner kebabs’ worth of meat a week will be enough to...

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Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says

Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy securityThe net zero sector is growing three times faster than the overall UK economy, analysis has found, providing...

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Caroline Lucas: ‘I can’t imagine my parents ever voted Green, but they became less antagonistic’

The former Green MP on patriotism, protest and and why Labour is much less ambitious than its votersIt’s tempting to think of Caroline Lucas as a kind of spirit of place in Brighton. She has arrived first at Food for...

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World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study

Bogs and swamps are a colossal carbon store but their continued destruction would blow climate change targetsThe world’s peatlands are “dangerously underprotected” despite the colossal amount of climate-heating...

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More than 100,000 homes in England could be built in highest-risk flood zones

Exclusive: Analysis suggests development in flood regions result of Labour push for 1.5m new homes in five yearsMore than 100,000 new homes will be built on the highest-risk flood zones in England in the next five years as part...

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Reeves’s Heathrow expansion plans leave Labour’s green agenda grounded

The chancellor’s apparent volte-face in backing a third runway has left many in her party disillusioned and led them to label it as an act of desperationIn 2020, Rachel Reeves, the MP for Leeds West and Pudsey, was clear...

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