Fiona Harvey

Europe, London, United Kingdom

Writing about the environment full-time since 2004. Seen a lot of environment since then. All tweeting is personal. In the Woman's Hour Power List 2020.

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UK can reach net zero by 2050, climate report finds

3 days ago | msn.com | Fiona Harvey |Jillian Ambrose

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UK can reach net zero by 2050, climate report finds

3 days ago | theguardian.com | Fiona Harvey |Jillian Ambrose

The UK can reach its net zero targets for 2050, and its interim carbon budgets for 2030 and beyond, the government’s statutory climate advisers have reported, in an unusual vote of confidence in green policy. But difficult decisions cannot be ducked, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) added in its annual progress report to parliament – including a pressing need to overhaul the way energy is taxed in order to make electricity much cheaper than gas.
UK can reach net zero by 2050, climate report finds

3 days ago | inkl.com | Fiona Harvey |Jillian Ambrose

Labour’s decision to lift the ban on onshore wind farms has brought the UK closer to the policy framework needed to reach net zero. Photograph: PA Images/Alamy The UK can reach its net zero targets for 2050, and its interim carbon budgets for 2030 and beyond, the government’s statutory climate advisers have reported, in an unusual vote of confidence in green policy.
Bank unveils green loans plan to unlock trillions for climate finance

4 days ago | nationalobserver.com | Fiona Harvey

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration An innovative plan to use public money to back renewable energy loans in the developing world could liberate cash from the private sector for urgently needed climate finance.
Flight tax could raise €100bn to tackle climate crisis, study finds

1 week ago | msn.com | Fiona Harvey

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Flight tax could raise €100bn to tackle climate crisis, study finds

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Fiona Harvey

Adding a levy to airline tickets could raise more than €100bn a year to pay for the damage done by climate breakdown, research has found. Flying is the most carbon-intensive means of travel, but is artificially cheap as airline fuel is often not taxed, and the environmental impacts are not paid for. Even in developed countries, only about half of people fly each year yet aviation makes up more than 2% of greenhouse gas emissions.
Bank unveils green loans plan to unlock trillions for climate finance

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Fiona Harvey

An innovative plan to use public money to back renewable energy loans in the developing world could liberate cash from the private sector for urgently needed climate finance.
A useful enemy? Why Tories and Reform are calling net zero policy into question

1 week ago | msn.com | Fiona Harvey |Helena Horton

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Labour will drop ‘unaffordable’ net zero policies, predicts Reform’s deputy leader

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Fiona Harvey

Labour will back down on its policies aimed at achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions, the deputy leader of the Reform has predicted. Richard Tice, the energy spokesperson for Reform and MP for Boston and Skegness, told the Guardian his party would withdraw from the 2015 Paris agreement that tries to limit global heating to 1.5C. He also said Reform would end a five-year funding plan to help developing countries cope with the impact of climate breakdown.
A useful enemy? Why Tories and Reform are calling net zero policy into question

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Helena Horton |Fiona Harvey

Just as Labour forges ahead with net zero policies, the chief energy spokespeople of the UK’s two main rightwing opposition parties are openly questioning long-settled climate science, in what seems like a mission to discredit and confuse the whole issue. It is a development that would have been unthinkable just three years ago, when the four-decade-long cross-party consensus on the climate still held firm.