Environmental groups are unsatisfied with Green Brexit's weaker regulations. The UK's touted departure from the EU has led to a great reshuffling of regulations across the board. However, for many environmental advocacy groups, these changes are quickly proving to be not in the planet's favor.

The European Green Deal is our roadmap for making the EU's economy sustainable.

Report sets out the myriad ways ongoing discussions over Brexit climate and energy policy are affecting the UK's chances of meeting climate goals.

The UK has identified nearly 4,000 EU laws and regulations which we are now “free from”. What have we done with these newfound freedoms?

A network of academic experts analysing how Brexit is affecting the environment. / We are a network of impartial academic experts analysing the implications of Brexit for UK and EU environmental policy and governance.

MORE than one-third of small businesses in Scotland say the long-term impact of Brexit is a more pressing concern than climate change.

Brexit is undermining efforts to switch to renewable energy in the fight against climate change, a senior SNP government minister warned.

In what follows, a group of leading social scientists explore these themes, explaining what has happened in the past, the situation the UK finds itself in now, and the issues that might confront us going forward. The collection is intended as a guide to the big questions confronting the country in the years to come.

British consumers spent as much as £1.1 billion ($1.4 billion) more on electricity and goods last year after losing access to European Union internal energy markets.

Joe Biden’s climate change plan isn’t a threat to the UK, it’s an opportunity.

Government refusal to link carbon market to EU’s has led to higher cost for British businesses.

Exclusive: Britain is falling behind the bloc on almost every area of green regulation, analysis reveals.

Focusing on the implications of Brexit for meeting net zero, this brief highlights areas that require urgent attention and calls for a renewed spotlight on Brexit and energy.

Salmon farmers are, like all of us, anticipating the arrival of the United Nation’s COP26 conference in Glasgow later this year and are actively engaging with the Scottish Government’s target of net-zero emissions of all greenhouse gases by 2045.

Findings cast doubt on Boris Johnson commitment to climate action ahead of key summit, Commission claims.

Brexit is a Tory invention and pro-Europeans must still fight the prospect of EU exile, writes Will Hutton.

A backlash against Boris Johnson’s plan to cut Britain's carbon emissions is gaining prominent backers in the U.K. — and they're dusting off the playbook used by the Brexit campaign.

Promises that exiting the EU would leave the UK better placed to protect the environment lie in tatters.

Ministers criticised for failing to fight for ‘ambitious’ commitments to cut CO2 emissions.

A Welsh Conservative has told the Senedd that the new UK subsidy control regime is taking so long to navigate that it’s having a detrimental impact on a business in his constituency.

Manufacturing firms are appealing to ministers to match a European grant scheme that subsidised the cost of installing renewable energy. / Under the EU system companies were able to claim up to a third of the cost for installing solar panels, biomass boilers or double glazing.

The European Union is offering assurances on funding for poorer members and countries’ ability to choose their own energy mix, as it strives for a deal next week on a tougher target to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to EU documents and sources.

Ursula von der Leyen pledges ‘unprecedented’ investments in clean technologies. / The EU is preparing to take on President Joe Biden’s showpiece legislation, which has turbocharged green investment in the US, by loosening restrictions on subsidies in Europe and accelerating permits for new projects.

The number of EU countries on board with a pledge to go carbon neutral by 2050 has grown rapidly in recent months – with 18 out of 28 now supporting the policy.

The European Parliament's environment committee has criticised the EU-UK trade agreement's lack of clarity in climate and environmental provisions.

The European Commission will propose on Tuesday (14 January) how the EU can pay for shifting the region’s economy to net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050 while protecting coal-dependent regions from taking the brunt of changes aimed at fighting climate change.

Europe delivered two groundbreaking initiatives last week to counter the global climate change crisis: a European Union climate deal, committing the EU to more than halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reach zero net emissions by 2050; and the publication of a first-of-its-kind of regulation, the EU’s sustainable finance taxonomy...

Everything from travel to air quality has been looked at in order to create ‘a growth that gives back’

The European Green Deal is a set of policy initiatives brought forward by the European Commission with the overarching aim of making Europe climate neutral in 2050.

The goal of making the EU climate neutral by mid-century is likely to set off a political battle.

Government scheme to replace EU agricultural payments fuelled by ‘blind optimism’ and still lacking crucial details, say MPs.

Rural voters say they’re being neglected by the government – and farmers are disgruntled too, warning that rising costs could lead to food shortages… and that post-Brexit trade deals will see them losing out to cheap imports.

The so-called “green Brexit” promised by the government has not been delivered, a coalition of environment groups says.

Brexit is making the UK's transition to net-zero "more complex", a new report has warned, stating that Covid-19 has further delayed efforts to set strong decarbonisation policies for an independent UK.

The European Union will need to “re-orient most, if not all” of its policies in order to protect vulnerable regions and workers in industries affected by the transition to a green economy, the EU Commission’s vice-president Frans Timmermans has said.

Keir Starmer’s plans to bring the UK closer to the EU could solve Labour’s Brexit conundrum.

Government condemned for trying ‘to rush it through’ – in echoes of Northern Ireland Protocol now being torn up. / MPs should block the Australia trade deal because the government has broken a promise to allow it to be scrutinised properly, a damning report says.

The director general of the National Trust said that investment zones ‘represent a free-for-all for nature and heritage’.

The UK's largest environmental charities have slammed the government for not doing enough to encourage an uptake in nature-friendly farming methods to tackle climate change.

Leave voters' disregard for the facts extends far beyond the NHS and the economy.

A small group of rightwing MPs are jangling Tory nerves and using questions about living costs to undermine climate action.

Universities have warned ministers of the risks to research, staff and students if Britain crashes out of the EU without a deal. Higher education bosses said a “no-deal” Brexit would “compromise” vital studies into cancer treatments and climate change.

79 organisations have joined together to write an open letter to the Prime Minister urging her to change the Government's trajectory on environmental deregulation, which is set to harm our people, planet and prosperity.

Government criticised over ‘indefensible’ proposal that could undermine climate efforts while yielding benefit of only £1.38m.

Campaigners say direct links between capitals could significantly reduce carbon emissions.

‘Allure of fusion makes it a good distraction from the failures of current government’s science and climate policy’

A NEW Scottish Government fund aims to “reinvigorate and repair” research links with Europe following Brexit.

The Australian and UK governments are at odds over why key climate targets were stripped out of a future trade deal.

Europe’s bid to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 will aim for a just, rapid shift away from high polluting industries and technologies.

Scientists say we have five years to change course on climate change. The next European parliament term is five years – they are a matter of life and death.

This Communication sets out a European Green Deal for the European Union (EU) and its citizens.

With finances tight and growth sluggish, closer alignment would bring mutual benefit.

The negotiations which will set our relationship with our closest neighbours for the next generation are being rushed in a reckless game of chicken.

At risk are vital environmental and wildlife protections my colleagues and I worked tirelessly to establish in the European Parliament.

Tony Abbott was given a top role as UK trade ambassador despite widespread disquiet about his controversial views.

TORY ministers caved in to Australian ministers’ climate demands during talks on a post-Brexit trade deal, according to a leaked government email.

The North York Moors National Park Authority, which approved the world’s largest polyhalite mine development, is examining how it can meet tree planting targets to offset the development’s impact in the face of a national shortage of saplings.

One of the supposed ‘benefits’ of Brexit was the ‘bonfire of Brussels red-tape‘ which was promised by libertarian Brexiteers. Two weeks into the administration of Liz Truss, the new government announced that they were planning to revoke 570 environmental laws which, in order to continue environmental protections, were rolled over from EU law after Brexit.

UK businesses are paying 10 per cent more than their EU counterparts to trade their emissions following Brexit.

The country is not neither prepared for, nor used to, change on the scale required to deal with climate change, Brexit, an ageing population, Covid and technological shifts, says Resolution Foundation.

According to experts, the best long-term environmental and economic measure Tory ministers could adopt is a close relationship with the EU market.

Ireland and France among nations bidding for proposed centre with up to 250 jobs.

The British government secretly dropped a series of climate pledges in order to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with Australia, leaked emails appear to show.

Fears for farmers and anger over dropping of pledge to bind Australia to crucial climate temperature limit.

The warning came as university leaders called on MPs to ensure research funding was not lost

The UK is urging the European Union not to harm British companies as European leaders debate whether to match measures in the US Inflation Reduction Act with massive green subsidies of their own.

A Labour MP said Lord Frost, who was Britain's chief Brexit negotiator under Boris Johnson, had made clear the choice to voters at the next election after he joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

Why heightened engagement is imperative for Net Zero.

The Government has effectively made it cheaper for firms to pollute in Britain in what some see as another anti-green move by Rishi Sunak’s administration.

Baker has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a group that perpetuates “lies and falsehoods” over climate science.

'Hang on we were told the UK was first in line for a trade deal,' wrote one Twitter user.

Rachel Donald looks at how the Trade Minister’s justification for a zero-tariff trade deal with Malaysia only accelerates global deforestation.

Goodbye, food standards. Hello, corporate lobbyists. Why are we doing this, for no real economic benefit?