Currently, there is no equivalent to fuel duty for electric vehicles. Excise duty was brought in for EVs for the first time in April 2025, costing £10 for the first year and then rising to a standard ...

BBC News reports that it understands the government intends to “relax” the UK’s current moratorium on new drilling for oil and gas ...

A second version of COP30’s key mutirão text emerged and on COP’s final scheduled day, a chart showed how most climate talks ...

On Saturday evening, nations meeting at COP30 in Brazil agreed to launch “limited initiatives to strengthen emissions-cutting plans, as well as tripling finance” for adaptation ...

COP30 negotiations were disrupted yesterday after a fire broke out at a pavilion inside the conference venue in Belém.