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What went right this week: the good news that matters

Robin Eveleigh

created: June 27, 2025, 5 a.m. | updated: July 1, 2025, 5:56 p.m.

Renewables and EVs are keeping the net zero dream alive, said expertsReaching net zero emissions by 2050 just might be within grasp in the UK, ‘provided the government stays the course’, Climate Change Committee (CCC) experts said this week. The government’s advisory panel revealed in its annual progress report that emissions in 2024 dropped to just under 50% of 1990 levels. There’s good news on peatland restoration and tree planting, too, with the latter hitting a two-decade high in 2023-24. “However, the government needs to do more to ensure people see the benefits of climate action in their bills. Given increasingly unstable geopolitics, it is also important to get off unreliable fossil fuels and onto homegrown, renewable energy as quickly as possible.

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