Simon Roach , Climate Journalist

The developments in renewable energy and  technology the world needs to tackle the climate crisis.

Flooding in northern Italy has forced more than ten thousand people to flee their homes. 

United Nations’ scientists have warned that global temperatures are set to rise by the crucial 1.5 degree threshold in the next five years, with potentially devastating consequences.

Will the UK government’s new plan to reach net zero actually work?

“Strikingly unprepared” – that’s the stark verdict from the UK’s climate change committee about the country’s current status when it comes to adapting to environmental change.

Our climate reporter Simon Roach joins Jackie in the Leeds studio.

The Ohio train crash has highlighted concerns about the consequences of pollution – and the impact on soil and water quality if highly hazardous petrochemicals leak into the environment.

The Climate Change Committee says that around £10 billion a year of “essential” new investment is needed — but that “adaptation in the UK remains chronically underfunded and overlooked”.

King Charles has said he would like any new profits from offshore wind projects to be given back to the public. But it’s not clear how much the monarchy has historically made from offshore wind, or how much it plans to forego. So how does King Charles profit from renewable energy in the first place?

The findings are the latest in a series of revelations about the company’s historic awareness of the links between climate change and fossil fuels.

As climate activists in Germany occupy the village of Lützerath to protest the expansion of a coal mine, politicians and the public are posed a question by the dirtiest fossil fuel: is it OK to use more coal now, if it means you can more quickly decarbonise later? 

Exhausted after two weeks of talks and 24 hours of last-ditch haggling, negotiators emerged with a deal… of sorts.

The success or failure of the climate summit in Egypt hangs in the balance, with both rich and poor nations still wrangling over the draft deal.

US president Joe Biden is due to arrive at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt, but tensions with China over Taiwan threaten to derail negotiations.