The Seagreen wind farm, Scotland’s biggest offshore wind farm, had to waste three quarters of its electricity produced last year and switch off its turbines due to a lack of grid capacity to use the energy.

The UK new car market grew for the third year in a row in 2025, breaching the two million mark for the first time since the pandemic, with 2,020,520 new car registrations, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).

The fashion industry remains one of the most water-intensive sectors, with a single pair of jeans requiring around 9,000 litres of water across cotton cultivation, dyeing and finishing.

Octopus Energy Group is to spin out its Kraken technology at valuation of $8.65bn, with a funding round led by D1 Capital Partners, alongside other new investors such as Fidelity International, Durable Capital Partners and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board.

Environmental policies may crowd out pre-existing green values, leading to a weaking of the messages.

2025 is on track to be one of the UK’s warmest years on record, joining 2022 and 2023 in the top three warmest years.

The Government hopes its clean energy initiative will create 400,000 jobs by 2030, raising total energy sector employment to 860,000. This plays a part in its transition to a low carbon economy. The Office for Clean Energy Jobs (OCEJ) was established within the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) to drive this initiative.

Discounts of up to £120,000 on new electric trucks will be available, with an additional £18m of funding announced to increase the Plug-in Truck Grant until March 2026.

Revolution Wind, the 50/50 joint venture between Skyborn Renewables and Ørsted, has filed a supplemental complaint in the US District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the lease suspension order issued on 22 December 2025 by the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), to be followed by a motion for a preliminary injunction.

From 1 January 2026 the world's first carbon border tax, the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), entered into effect.

More incoherence in green policies as more barriers erected to electrification of transport.

You could take it either way, in fact any of three ways: climate change is now so embedded as an idea with re public that the media no longer highlight it, that net-zero has become so ‘politicised’, or you can wear a tinfoil hat.