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 ...

Australia will “continue to argue” for a transition away from fossil fuel use in energy at COP31, according to the incoming co-president of next year’s UN climate summit ...

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 ...

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