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- Germany misses climate targets as emissions barely fall in 2025 14 March 2026Greenhouse gases dropped just 0.1% last year as environment minister criticises lack of improvementGreenhouse gas emissions in Germany have again missed targets set by the Climate Protection Act and barely fell at all in 2025.Emissions decreased by just 0.1% last year compared to the previous year, according to data from the German Environment Agency. Continue […]Donna Ferguson and agencies
- Miliband reveals plans that could mean nuclear power plants built near homes 13 March 2026Changes to regulation to speed up development could also make it easier to build on sensitive nature sitesEd Miliband has unveiled plans that could make it easier to build nuclear power plants closer to homes and on sensitive nature sites, as he attempts to speed up the development of energy infrastructure.The energy secretary set out […]Mark Sweney and Helena Horton
- UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot 13 March 2026The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvationThese are burning, smoking lies. As oil and gas prices soar, thanks to the US and Israel’s attack on Iran, the UK’s opponents of climate policy become even shriller. Rightwing politicians, Tufton Street […]George Monbiot
- Do we want to keep fixing the same issue? Unlearned lessons from the first big oil crisis 13 March 2026As energy prices tripled in the 1970s due to Middle Eastern wars, Scandinavia, France and the Netherlands sped up green transitionWhen Middle Eastern wars sparked an oil crisis in the 1970s, tripling energy prices and throwing economies into chaos, some countries looked beyond short-term solutions. The French made nuclear the pillar of their power system. […]Ajit Niranjan
- Everything is a political weapon since Trump’s re-election, says Germany’s ex-economy minister 13 March 2026Robert Habeck says world has moved on from weaponising energy to using tariffs, technology and more to inflict harmThe weaponisation of energy when Russia invaded Ukraine has given way to “weaponising everything” since Donald Trump returned to the White House, Germany’s former economy minister has said.Robert Habeck, the Green politician responsible for keeping the lights […]Ajit Niranjan