Climate change: The UK is failing to cut carbon emissions quickly enough. Will it heed its latest warning? – Andrew Midgley

This week the Climate Change Committee (CCC) sent a warning shot across the UK Government’s bows about the lack of progress in tackling climate change.

This annual update by the government’s own independent advisers highlighted that, despite excellent leadership at COP26 in Glasgow last year, UK progress in reducing emissions is behind the curve – particularly in farming and land use.

The committee suggested that, across the UK, there need to be major increases in woodland cover and peatland restoration, and large reductions in emissions from farming. It added that the right policies were not yet fully in place to deliver the desired emissions reductions.