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New polling from @YouGov shows public support net zero climate action, but underestimate how much UK has already achieved

6️⃣3️⃣% voters: UK should be trying to meet its net zero 2050 target
(29% oppose)

5️⃣0️⃣% of respondents inaccurately believe the UK's overall progress is off track net zero 2050 target

Only 8% accurately identified that UK is over halfway to achieving it

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The reduction in China's overall oil use since the disruptions to supply from the Gulf through the strait of Hormuz

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For sweltering Britons, rising energy prices could spark a shutter boom

Shares in window specialists have outperformed the broader market in the past month
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Heathrow expansion would make UK ‘overshoot’ climate targets, report suggests

New modelling says UK aviation industry is already forecast to exceed limits in the seventh carbon budget, even before third runway is built
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EV batteries last longer than drivers feared

Most used EVs able to retain about 90% of their original usable battery capacity after 150,000 kilometres, a new study has shown

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China’s carbon dioxide emissions fell by 1% after the outbreak of the US-Israeli war on Iran, thanks to a sharp reduction in oil consumption and a steady rise in the use of electric vehicles and public transport
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El Niño: 1/4 of UK food imports – including rice, coffee and cocoa – from parts of world most exposed

As climate change turbocharges El Niño, up to £17bn of UK food imports are in the line of fire

🍚 Share of UK rice imports 👇

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'Super' El Niño: what is the weather phenomenon, and how will it likely affect the UK?

ECIU's @gredmond76 explains

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World must navigate 'reality' of 1.5C warming overshoot, says UN Environment Programme

Rise in global temperatures of 1.5C will be surpassed

Challenge has now "shifted from avoiding overshoot to navigating it"

https://t.co/5Qm4gQsic0

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Trump’s deplorable Venezuelan oil grab is a fool’s errand

Trump is living in a technological and historical time-warp, clinging to a vanishing world order where oil was once king.
https://t.co/dmFJrvru7t

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US launches further strikes on Iran as conflict flares up

Escalation pushes oil prices higher and sends Treasury yields to day’s highs as investors fret over new bout of inflation
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🚨 How does climate change affect heatwaves?

Grantham Institute, UCL: Attribution studies overwhelmingly show "every heatwave in the world is now made stronger and more likely to happen because of human-caused climate change."

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Major mountain safety aid programme cut by Trump before Nepal floods

Jeremy Konyndyk, who ran the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to the 2015 Nepal Earthquake, has criticised the government for closing climate and disaster-focused programmes in the Himalayas
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Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’

Report says world could get back to 1.5C this century through deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphere

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Stat of the day
UK 1️⃣3️⃣0️⃣❎ more likely to experience a summer like the one we’ve just had due to climate change

“In a climate unaffected by human emissions, this would be exceptionally unlikely, i.e. 1 in over 1,000 years.

In current climate, we should now expect this to be approx 1 in 9 year event." 🤯

Dr Mark McCarthy @MetOffice

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Summer 2026 was Britain’s warmest on record, acc @MetOffice

Av mean UK temp since June: 16.5C

Almost 1/2 degree warmer than 2025 record

5 warmest summers since records began in 1884 have all occurred this century

https://t.co/1wFuqBAO5D

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Cross-party talks needed to tackle climate crisis, say Lib Dems

Andy Burnham urged to seek consensus over response to extreme heat and forthcoming ‘super El Niño’
https://t.co/qH20QDHdVE