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MPs accuse Treasury and HMRC of shirking climate responsibilities The Treasury and HMRC are failing to respond to a "climate storm breaking all around us", failing to make the necessary changes to tax systems and short-term funding packages needed for the 'just' transition to net-zero. After this year's Budget and the first 'Tax Day', further announcements are due in the second half of the year That is according to a damning new report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) today (28 April). Building on the Committee’s recent report on net-zero delivery, which accused the Government of ...

And Now, the School Pep Rally Against Whiteness March 12, 2021 Updated: March 14, 2021 The sight of high schoolers clapping and chanting in an explosion of collective energy could easily be mistaken for pep rally before the Big Game. But these students at the Social Justice Humanitas Academy in Los Angeles aren’t getting psyched up for a football game. They are mentally preparing themselves to do battle against a different type of foe—colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, and other manifestations of “white supremacy”—with a chant that begins: (Si Se Puede) Si Se Pued...

MPs also warn government lacks clarity on its ambitions for November’s COP26 and question diplomatic resources for pre-conference negotiations

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Published: 1 Mar 2021, 10:17 By: Reporter, Solar Power Portal The TUC is recommending that unspent funding is passed over to the Local Authority allocation, where solar is an eligible technology. Of the 100,000 new jobs to result from the Green Homes Grant, only 14,500 of these have been created to date. This is according to new analysis from the Trades Union Congress (TUC), which warned that over 8,000 of these jobs could be lost in 2021-2022 as a result of the government cutting the funding to the scheme. It was announced in February that any unspent funds from the £2 billion s...