Exclusive: Miliband’s clean jobs plan wins over the unions
The Energy Secretary’s plan has been backed by some of net zero’s loudest critics in the trade union movement
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The vast majority of scientists agree that human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels that release greenhouse gases, are now the main driving force behind climate change, which is raising global temperatures and affecting weather patterns. Here you can find the New Statesman’s expert coverage on climate change as well as our analysis on activism, climate justice and the overall crisis.
Ian McEwan and fiction’s problem with climate change
In What We Can Know, Britain has sunk beneath the waves – but literature remains buoyant
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A new force is stirring on the left
Eco-populism is coming for the Labour Party.
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Mike Berners-Lee: “Being a billionaire can make people go nuts”
The environmentalist on the politics of climate in an age of deceit.
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Dale Vince: “Trump has given credibility to the incredible”
The eco-entrepreneur on the US president, why Heathrow doesn’t need a third runway, and keeping up with Ed Miliband.
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Joshua Oppenheimer’s surreal apocalyptic musical The End
This strange film, starring Tilda Swinton, satirises our collective delusion in the face of the climate crisis.
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Will Labour fight for net zero?
Reform and the Tories have sharpened the government’s green dilemmas.
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Labour’s airport ambitions won’t chart a path to green growth
The expansion of Heathrow and Gatwick may not have the desired economic effect.
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Ed Miliband’s net zero bind
The targets of his department will keep running into Labour’s economic growth aspirations.
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The insurance industry is exacerbating the climate crisis
The sector once aimed to stabilise the economy, but its continued insurance of fossil fuel companies risks further volatility.
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Reform is very wrong about net zero
Richard Tice’s war on renewables would make energy more expensive, not less.
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It’s time for climate populism
As politics turns against net zero, we need to mobilise a genuine mass movement against ecological catastrophe.
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Will the government stop Rosebank?
Net zero and economic growth are not always compatible aspirations.
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The cost of net zero in the town that steel built
Labour’s climate push risks leaving Scunthorpe behind.
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The secret history of the poles
How glaciers hold the key to Earth’s deep past.
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Britain’s weather feels more erratic then ever. Is it really?
The climate is wetter, but there is little evidence it is stormier.
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The battle for the soul of Serbia
The need for lithium is driving a global race for resources – and plans for a mine 120 miles from…
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Is 2025 the year I finally quit politics?
Climate catastrophe, tech bros kissing Trump’s ring, and a flailing British economy… maybe it would be better to ignore it…
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Ryan Jude: “We should enable more people to become councillors”
Westminster City Council’s cabinet member for climate on being a young councillor, temporary accommodation and funding local government.
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With its big players absent, is Cop29 futile?
Neither China, the US nor India will attend this year’s UN climate conference.
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