Energy

The government is seeking overseas investment in green industries, backed by a forthcoming global summit and a new advisory panel, while a minister has cast doubt on new nuclear projects

The Planning Inspectorate has approved 15 design changes to the Sizewell C nuclear power station, aimed at reducing the scheme’s environmental impacts

The Powering Past Coal Alliance, led by the UK and Canada, is being used as a 'greenwashing engine' for financial institutions, according to a new report from Reclaim Finance

Around 40% of UK solar farm panels have been produced by Chinese companies linked to Uyghur forced labour camps, an investigation has found

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has said it will complete a review of the six national policy statements for energy infrastructure by the end of the year, following a legal challenge

The government has set out how it plans to bring down industrial greenhouse gas emissions to a tenth of current levels by 2050. Here’s what you need to know

In 2019 all major sectors reduced their emissions year on year, apart from agriculture, which increased them by 1%.

The department responsible for leading the way on the environment is not meeting its own green targets. Will its performance embarrass the government in the year it hosts the global climate summit? asks David Burrows

This week it emerged that tempers erupted in Whitehall after the go-ahead was given for the development of Britain’s first new deep coal mine in decades. Here's what you need to know

Boxing Day 2020 saw just over half of the country’s electricity demand met by wind power.