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Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email The British public overwhelmingly backs the construction of new wind farms and is increasingly hostile to non-renewable energy sources, a new poll has found. The survey, released as the world’s governments meet for the Cop27 […] 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 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

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Rishi Sunak has reversed on his decision to skip Cop27 and announced that he will be attending next week’s crucial climate change summit in Egypt. The prime minister had been under growing pressure to U-turn after his […] More