World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before #COP28 - ‘We must start setting records on cutting emissions,’ UN Environment Programme boss says, after temperature records obliterated in 2023 #emissionsgap Story by me theguardian.com/environment/20…

[Next part of our #GreatCarbonDivide series ...] Revealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classes - CO2 emissions of richest 10% is up to 40x bigger than poorest - ignoring this may make ending #ClimateCrisis impossible, experts say By me 1/2 theguardian.com/environment/20…

Some of world's leading economists give their take on how we can tackle climate crisis. LOthttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/22/who-are-polluter-elite-how-can-we-tackle-carbon-inequality?CMP=share_btn_tw

Attached is my longer reply to the Guardian question: "The wealthiest 1 per cent of people on the planet are responsible for double the greenhouse gas emissions of the poorest half of people. When it comes to tackling the climate crisis, is this a problem? theguardian.com/environment/20…

How much of your water bill is swallowed up by company debt? – interactive of a scandal theguardian.com/environment/ng…

Climate groups begin legal actions against Rosebank North Sea oil project theguardian.com/environment/20…

Farnborough airport’s biggest critic silenced as expansion plans continue. An asbo for protesting theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/j…

Our story on Jeremy Hunt’s misrepresentation of the climate change committee - with Kiran Stacey theguardian.com/environment/20…

For months, I have been working with environmental experts to track the gaping chasm in environmental law between the UK and the EU since Brexit. The results are shocking, and the The Guardian has just published them theguardian.com/environment/20…

Oil and gas debate comes back today. Watch out for these claims which I can imagine will be made by the minister theguardian.com/environment/20…

During a protest organised by Extinction Rebellion at the @Sciencemuseum, Greta Thunberg challenged science director,Roger Highfield, in front of a packed auditorium, over the Adani sponsorship of the ‘Energy Revolution gallery’ due to open this spring 🧵

Labour scrapping £28bn green pledge could leave UK colder, sicker and poorer - by Fiona Harvey theguardian.com/environment/20…

💥Exclusive💥 World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target - Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of IPCC scientists finds By me theguardian.com/environment/ar…

‘I think we are headed for major societal disruption within the next five years.’ World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target. Chilling survey by ⁦Damian Carrington⁩ theguardian.com/environment/ar…

BREAKING: We've challenged Rachel Reeves about why she won't tax the richest in our society. We need wealth taxes to tackle the climate crisis, rebuild our crumbling public services + safeguard our future. Her response? Walking away from young people crying out for justice.

This is absolutely spot-on. There has to be justice in the transition, with no-one dumped on the scrap-heap like Thatcher did to the miners. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

It is a test case for the whole idea of a just transition, of what happens when we decarbonise … we simply can’t have a repeat of what happened to coal workers in the 80s." theguardian.com/environment/ar…

On the The Guardian environment desk, we've tried to get the climate and nature crisis into the UK election debate - to help our audience understand that they are voting for the future, and to hold politicians to account. Here are some key pieces:

Contempt, gagging and UN intervention: inside the UK’s wildest climate trial. Shocking detail in this piece by ⁦Damien Gayle⁩ (and one answer to prison overcrowding might be to stop locking up peaceful climate protesters for years…) theguardian.com/environment/ar…

It’s easy to blame #petrostates – but self-proclaimed ‘climate leaders’ like the US and UK are driving the #ClimateCrisis , says Tessa Khan theguardian.com/commentisfree/…