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2025
Just Stop Oil trio cleared over Stonehenge protest, BBC News (Oct 31, 2025) - ‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners, theguardian.com (Oct 25, 2025) — Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
- A home insulation fiasco has left tens of thousands in cold and leaky homes over winter, theconversation.com (Oct 22, 2025)
- Why we need to talk about adaptation, not just mitigation, in climate politics [DeSmog], Daily Alternative (Oct 20, 2025)
- ‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert, theguardian.com (Oct 13, 2025) — Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists
- National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn, theguardian.com (Oct 08, 2025)
- This was the hottest summer on record. If it happens again next year, Britain’s ecosystems won’t cope, Lucy Jones, theguardian.com (Sep 03, 2025) — A future of extreme heatwaves, drought and collapsing habitats awaits if we continue to ignore the danger signs
- Net-zero not "a platitude or a soundbite" but presents significant commercial benefits - regulator, BBC News (Sep 01, 2025) — "There are real, very significant, commercial benefits for the UK from the projects around net-zero."
- UK’s richest set to produce 13 times more transport emissions than poorest by 2035, theguardian.com (Aug 27, 2025)
- From clean air to pesticides: how UK has lagged behind EU on the environment, theguardian.com (Aug 19, 2025) — Labour has continued to diverge from bloc’s laws, meaning most of UK’s protections are weaker than pre-Brexit
- UK taxpayers on hook as failed Cumbria coalmine investors sue government, theguardian.com (Aug 11, 2025)
- Analysis: Record UK wildfires have burned an area twice the size of Glasgow in 2025, carbonbrief.org (Aug 08, 2025)
- Campaigners take airport expansion to High Court, BBC News (Aug 04, 2025) — Campaign group argues the government acted unlawfully when it granted the scheme permission - as the impact on climate change had not been properly assessed. The government backed the project despite the Planning Inspectorate recommending it should be rejected over environmental concerns
- ‘Compassion and care are being stripped away’: a Just Stop Oil activist on her time in prison, Louise Lancaster, theguardian.com (Jul 21, 2025)
- OBR: Net-zero is much cheaper than thought for UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly, carbonbrief.org (Jul 08, 2025)
- Stampede in Soho: puppet animals on an epic trek bring wonder and warning to London streets, theguardian.com (Jun 28, 2025)
- Weak UK lobbying laws let fossil fuel giants influence climate policies, opendemocracy.net (Jun 26, 2025) — Three-quarters of the public believe the government is “rigged to serve the rich and influential”, according to polling conducted by More in Common and University College London’s Policy Lab last year
- More people buying electric cars and heat pumps than ever before, BBC News (Jun 25, 2025)
- Make electricity cheaper for consumers, says climate advisor, theccc.org.uk (Jun 25, 2025) — "The Government needs to do more to ensure people see the benefits of climate action in their bills. Given increasingly unstable geopolitics, it is also important to get off unreliable fossil fuels and onto homegrown, renewable energy as quickly as possible." Interim Chair of the Climate Change Committee, Professor Piers Forster
- UK can reach net zero by 2050, climate report finds, theguardian.com (Jun 25, 2025) — Climate Change Committee says current targets could be met provided country takes ‘steps forward’ to achieve them
- A friend of the Earth: how I stopped Surrey becoming the new Texas, observer.co.uk (Jun 20, 2025)
- A blueprint for action: lifting the lid on what public engagement looks like in practice, climateoutreach.org (Jun 19, 2025)
- Farmers 'making a change' to cut carbon emissions, BBC News (Jun 05, 2025)
- MP to launch bill to target superyachts, private jets and fossil fuel producers, theguardian.com (May 15, 2025) — Bill would force major polluters to pay into fund for flood defences and home insulation – but has little chance of becoming law. “There’s huge public support for making big polluters pay up for the climate damage they’ve caused." Louise Hutchins, Stamp Out Poverty
- Just Stop Oil protester, 78, who was returned to jail as no tag fitted her, on her life inside, theguardian.com (Mar 23, 2025)
- Starmer’s plan to ‘build baby build’ risks more American-style car-dominated sprawl, theconversation.com (Mar 20, 2025)
- ‘The prison system is insanely broken’: a climate activist on his experience in jail, theguardian.com (Mar 19, 2025)
- Let juries judge disruptive protesters like Just Stop Oil on their integrity – expert view, theconversation.com (Mar 15, 2025)
- Man, 80, gives up solar panels fight with council, BBC News (Mar 14, 2025)
- Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion, theguardian.com (Mar 07, 2025) — People in capital breathing much cleaner air, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areas
- The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers, theconversation.com (Feb 26, 2025)
- CCC: Reducing emissions 87% by 2040 would help ‘cut household costs by £1,400’, carbonbrief.org (Feb 26, 2025) — Themes that underpin CCC recommendations include “Implementing an engagement strategy”: stressing the importance of the government providing ”clear information to households and businesses”, including on the benefits of low-carbon choices, and “Supporting households to install low-carbon heating”: Government support is specifically needed to tackle the high up-front costs of heat-pump installations and other barriers such as “misconceptions”
- Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says, theguardian.com (Feb 24, 2025)
- Rosebank oilfield go-ahead decision ruled unlawful by Edinburgh court, theguardian.com (Jan 30, 2025)
- Hundreds protest in London as jailed climate activists’ appeals are heard, theguardian.com (Jan 30, 2025)
- The UK’s international commitments on climate and nature could soon become law – and better protect our environment, theconversation.com (Jan 22, 2025) — Climate and Nature Bill (CAN Bill), includes a climate and nature citizens’ assembly
- At Extinction Rebellion, we aimed for UK net zero in 2025. That won’t happen – so here’s what to do instead, Rupert Read, theguardian.com (Jan 01, 2025) — With the climate crisis hitting Britain, we must build resilience at a local level by rewilding, saving water and fighting floods
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| Cite as | Phil Green (2021–2025). "UK Climate news". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025. |