What we learned this week

Anyone watching climate proceedings in the UK will have had a lot to process on Thursday as the government published dozens of new policies related to energy and climate – some good, some resolutely moving in the wrong direction. I haven’t had a chance to wade through them all yet, but I’ll be drawing on Carbon Brief’s summary to do so.

As global plastic use continues its inexorable rise, an overview of the health effects of plastics has revealed that they cause harm at every stage in their ...