Labour calls for SNP to get tough on rented housing energy targets
Scottish Labour Party holds SNP Government’s feet to the fire over the need to make private rented accommodation more energy efficient.
climate change
Gove promises ‘Green Brexit’ in first environment speech
Michael Gove is promising to deliver a “green Brexit”, which sets global gold standards on policies ranging from pesticides to wildlife protection and animal welfare.
Oil majors among top contributors to greenhouse emissions, report says
Oil and gas supermajors and the national coal industries of three of the world's biggest countries are among the top contributors to climate change, according to a new report.
UN chief: US could meet Paris climate goals despite accord exit
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the United States may meet the Paris climate agreement’s targets despite pulling out of the international deal.
US refuses to sign G7 pledge on climate change
The United States has refused to sign a G7 pledge that calls the Paris climate accord the “irreversible” global tool to address climate change.
US will stay in fight against climate change, vows California Governor
President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate accord will prove only a temporary setback to reducing greenhouse gas emissions because “disaster still looms” unless the world moves urgently on the issue, California governor Jerry Brown has said.
US challenges China to be leader on climate change
US Energy Secretary Rick Perry has said he hopes China will step forward to be a “real leader” on climate issues, while rejecting criticism that America is backing down.
Trump pulls US out of world climate change deal
Donald Trump is pulling the US out of the world’s first comprehensive deal on climate change.
Paris pact less effective without US, Kremlin claims
The Paris climate deal will be less effective without its key participants, the Kremlin has claimed.
Climate change to prove twice as costly for major cities
Climate change could cost the world’s major cities twice as much as the rest of the planet because of the extra heat created by the urban jungle, researchers have warned.
EU and 79 African, Caribbean, Pacific countries in joint push to defend and implement global climate deal
The European Union and 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific developing countries, who together make up more than half of the signatories to the Paris Agreement on climate change, today reaffirmed their strong and steadfast commitment to full implementation of the agreement, urging all partners to keep up the momentum created in 2015.
Trump’s climate change meeting given rain check
The US has put off a meeting to decide on whether it will pull out of the historic Paris Climate Agreement, a White House official has confirmed.
Swap meat with insects to tackle climate change, bug boffins suggest
Swapping meat for edible insects could make a major contribution to tackling climate change, according to scientists.
Exxon, Shell join Ivanka Trump to defend Paris climate pact
As President Donald Trump contemplates whether to make good on his campaign promise to yank the United States out of the Paris climate accord, an unlikely lobbying force is hoping to talk him out of it: oil and coal producers.
Campaigners threaten UK Government with legal action over emissions plans
The Government must publish delayed plans on how it will cut greenhouse gas emissions or face legal action, campaigners have warned.
UK greenhouse gas emissions fall 6% in 2016, figures show
The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell 6% in 2016, official figures show.
California, New York governors to defy Trump executive order on climate change
The governors of California and New York have said they will push ahead with aggressive climate change policies despite President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to boost the coal industry.
Trump signals end of Obama’s green projects in bid to boost domestic fossil fuels
Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order that will suspend, rescind or flag for review more than half a dozen green measures in an effort to boost domestic energy production in the form of fossil fuels.
Exxon can’t find up to a year of Rex Tillerson `tracker’ emails
Exxon Mobil Corp. may have lost as much as a year’s worth of emails that former chief executive officer Rex Tillerson used to discuss climate change risks and other sensitive issues under the alias ‘Wayne Tracker,’ a lawyer for New York state has told a judge.
Carbon emissions from Energy flat despite economic growth
Carbon dioxide emissions from energy have not increased for three years in a row even as the global economy grew, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said.
A £8mn Petlands restoration work to aid climate change fight
Scottish Government funding of £8 million will help with “crucial” work to help tackle climate change, according to ministers.
MSPs demand blueprint for tougher emissions targets
A blueprint for tackling climate change must set tougher targets for emissions reductions from transport and agriculture, the two most polluting sectors, MSPs have demanded.
Video: Statoil produces climate change ‘roadmap’
Statoil is aiming to reduce its annual CO2 emissions by 3million tonnes by 2030.
UK less concerned about climate change than European neighbours, survey shows
People in the UK are less worried about climate change than their European neighbours, a survey suggests.
UK emissions lowered as coal use more than halves
The UK’s carbon dioxide emissions fell by almost 6% in 2016 after coal use more than halved to record lows, analysis suggests.