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Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Former Brexit minister David Frost has joined a controversial thinktank that denies global heating is a problem, declaring: “We’re not in a climate emergency.” The Global Warming Policy Foundation – founded by ex-Conservative chancellor Nigel […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Boris Johnson has joked about soaring temperatures from climate change being one possible reason for his removal from Downing Street this summer. The former prime minister suggested record-breaking temperatures of 40C in July helped spark […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Any Just Stop Oil climate protesters forcing the closure of parts of the M25 deserve to spend Christmas in prison, cabinet minister Grant Shapps has said. There have been protests at seven locations on the […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Rishi Sunak has been accused of a “vacuum of leadership”, as he arrives at the make-or-break Cop27 summit to a warning that climate breakdown is now close to being “irreversible”. The prime minister’s claim to […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Ministers have been told to come clean on suspicions the UK will break promises to fund climate crisis help for poorer nations, after failing to set out what money is being provided. As the crucial […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Rishi Sunak is under fire for claiming that the world has charted a course to avoid catastrophic global heating despite experts warning that a temperature rise above 1.5C is now almost “inevitable”. As he set […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Joe Biden’s climate envoy has questioned the UK’s plans to expand North Sea oil and gas production dramatically, warning it will not solve the energy crisis. John Kerry also attacked fossil fuel chiefs for exploiting […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Rishi Sunak has told a Cop27 reception hosted by King Charles at Buckingham Palace that the world will experience “more human suffering” if we continue to allow “climate change to ravage our planet”. The prime […] More
