UK’s last coal-fired power station will shut down today, drawing to a close Britain’s 142-year reliance on the fossil fuel to produce electricity: www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Last coal-fired power station shuts down in landmark moment for clean energy

Closure of Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire puts an end to the country’s use of coal for electricity, which began in 1882

I saw Unforgiven in Yorkshire; there’s a scene where Clint Eastwood bursts into a bar, shoots a bunch of people, then says “anyone who don’t wanna get killed, better clear on out the back.” A broad Yorkshire voice in the cinema said “oh, well, ah’m off then”…

NEW: How the UK became the first G7 country to phase out coal power 🧵 Four key ingredients in UK's success: ❌🏭Stopping new coal ❤️‍🔥☢️🌄Building alternatives 💷Making polluters pay 📢Clear political signals But there's much more to say… 1/n interactive.carbonbrief.org/coal-phaseou...

NEW - I've got hold of the figures showing how much money the UK government has used to fund nature protection in developing countries. The UK target is £3bn for nature and forests by 2026, and it will have to provide 1.7bn of this over the next two years www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

Analysis: UK must spend £1.7bn more on nature by 2026 to meet climate-finance goal - Carbon Brief

The UK will need to almost double the climate finance it gives for nature conservation annually in order to meet one of its flagship international targets

The UK’s last remaining #coalwww.independent.co.uk/news/uk/labo...

Britain’s last coal-fired power station set to close in landmark moment

The UK first started using coal for electricity in 1882 and on September 30 Britain will end its reliance on the fossil fuel.

The UK has a good record on offshore wind and other renewables but its grid scale battery storage efforts have been decidedly suboptimal on.ft.com/3U51N95

Britain’s grid battery storage record is maddening

[FREE TO READ] The UK is great at building renewables but not the batteries needed to use green electricity effectively

Deadly rainfall in Central Europe twice as likely due to our continued burning of fossil fuels - @wwattribution.bsky.socialwww.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

Rachel Kyte, who previously served as special representative for the UN and a vice-president of the World Bank, to take up role of climate envoy to lead UK’s return to front ranks of global climate diplomacy: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Labour appoints Rachel Kyte to climate envoy role axed by Sunak

Appointee was a climate chief at the World Bank and will lead UK’s return to high-level environmental diplomacy

Earth may have breached seven of nine planetary boundaries, health check shows - Ocean acidification close to critical threshold, say scientists, posing threat to marine ecosystems and global liveability #planetaryboundarieswww.theguardian.com/environment/...

Earth may have breached seven of nine planetary boundaries, health check shows

Ocean acidification close to critical threshold, say scientists, posing threat to marine ecosystems and global liveability

Energy sec Ed Miliband plans to consult on raising minimum energy efficiency standards in the social rented sector, saying it has the potential to lift over a million renter's out of fuel poverty