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Westminster and Scottish Parliament declare a climate emergency – but we must make the radical changes needed to keep to 1.5C of warming.

Business and Energy Department survey shows deepening concern about climate breakdown - including among celebrities.

University of Cambridge establishing a Centre For Climate Repair to study desperate geoengineering options like refreezing the Earth's polar regions.

New research offers crucial historical context on how ancient indigenous South American populations dealt with climate change.

XR is anti-capitalist in practice and principle, but demanding that its critique of capitalism be pushed front-and-centre would destroy the movement.

The politics of climate change are not a question of right or left but about optimism and pessimism - the desire for or denial of the need for change.

In an age of selfishness, the achievements of Extinction Rebellion prove we are still capable of taking collective action.

The Green New Deal moves beyond market-based instruments and might even debunk the need for pursuing economic growth at all costs.

The climate is in crisis but if we harness the energy and optimism of our farming entrepreneurs, we might just avoid catastrophe.

'We can't win a war against water by building away climate change with infinitely high flood defences.'

The EU must forge a new Sustainability and Wellbeing pact which focuses not on growth but on quality of life, tax reform and zero waste.

More than 200 experts use Europe Day to call for systemic changes to deal with the climate crisis, species extinction and inequality

Public ownership is not just necessary to stop climate change but increasingly inevitable.

Conservation experts in Westminster to highlight upland peatland community’s role in tackling climate change.

The UK Parliament became the first in the world to declare a climate and environment emergency this May Day. What next?