Climate change
Climate change news from UK Parliament.
Net zero: Lords debates behaviour change
Members discuss Climate Change Committee's 'Reducing UK emissions' report and a public engagement strategy. Find out more
17 September 2021
Scottish renewables progress hampered by grid connection charges
Scottish Affairs Committee publishes renewable energy in Scotland report
16 September 2021
Government pushes ahead with trade negotiations while 'running down the clock' on establishing new Trade and Agriculture Commission
Cross-party MPs write to the International Trade Secretary, Liz Truss MP
14 September 2021
Climate Change – Government must listen to the public, says Business Committee Chair
Committee publishes the Government’s response to the Committee’s Climate Assembly UK: where are we now? report
09 September 2021
EAC Chair comments on IPCC report
Philip Dunne MP, Chairman of the Environmental Audit Committee, comments on the report from Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
09 August 2021
Barriers holding back renewable energy in Wales must be urgently overcome
Welsh Affairs Committee publishes report on Renewable energy in Wales
28 July 2021
UK's battery strategy risks going flat, says Lords Committee
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee publishes its report 'Battery strategy goes flat: Net-zero target at risk'
26 July 2021
COP26 – BEIS Committee Chair writes to Alok Sharma on role of business & inclusive participation at COP 26
Darren Jones, Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee, has written to Alok Sharma
26 July 2021
Are local authorities equipped to reach net zero?
The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) is calling for written evidence submissions
26 July 2021
Boost action and diplomacy to protect nature, Committee tell government
Environment and Climate Change Committee publishes letter to the Government on COP15.
26 July 2021
Specialist Adviser vacancy for net zero aviation and shipping inquiry
Can you help Parliament find the best routes to net zero for aviation and shipping?
22 July 2021
International Trade Committee launches inquiry on ‘COP26 and International Trade’
The inquiry comes as the UK prepares to host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow
22 July 2021
Nature-based solutions for climate change – inquiry launched
Science and Technology Committee launch inquiry into nature-based solutions to climate change
21 July 2021
EAC launches new inquiry on aviation and shipping’s voyage to net zero
Committee announces that it is to look at how the aviation and shipping sectors can best achieve net zero emissions
20 July 2021
Lords debates private members’ bills
Members discuss elderly social care, organ tourism and environment education. Catch up
19 July 2021