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Amsterdam, Netherlands – Greenpeace demands world leaders agree on a global response plan at COP30 as a new major UN report warned the global temperature is projected to rise to 2.3-2.5°C above pre-industrial era global temperatures, putting the Paris Agreement limit of 1.5°C at risk in the short-term.
The UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2025 warned the world is heading towards “a serious escalation of climate risks and damages” due to a lack of ambition and action, and reports the multi-decadal average of global temperature rise will exceed 1.5°C, at least temporarily, requiring faster and bigger cuts in emissions to minimise the overshoot.
Jasper Inventor, Deputy Programme Director, Greenpeace International said: “How many warnings do we need? The time is now, but our leaders are asleep at the wheel, on a collision course to more devastating storms like Hurricane Melissa, human suffering, economic damages and climate injustice.”
“Warnings of a 1.5°C overshoot must be a rallying call for action and yet 2035 climate action plans have failed to bridge the ambition gap. We’re still only inching forward on cutting our emissions despite the demands of people and communities around the world.”
“We have the renewable energy solutions and we are making progress, but emissions are still rising, the transition away from fossil fuels is too slow, and national climate action plans are barely moving the needle. It’s time for G20 countries, above all developed countries, to grab the wheel and really lead the transition, starting at COP30, where a global response plan to accelerate action must be agreed.”
The Emissions Gap Report 2025 predicted global temperatures to reach 2.3-2.5°C by the end of the century, down from 2.6-2.8°C last year. Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement 10 years ago, temperature predictions have fallen from 3-3.5°C, but faster action is required.
Similar to the UNFCCC’s NDC synthesis report, the UNEP also warned new 2035 climate action plans will have insufficient impact in reducing emissions, especially due to the intended US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, and called on G20 nations to display climate leadership.
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The six protesters outside Southwark crown court. From left: Andrew Dames, Clara O’Callaghan, Cosmo Cattell, Jane Touil, Michael Dunk and Adelheid Russenberger. Photograph: Just Stop Oil
Lawyers call for clarity over law as six are found guilty while being stopped from using defence used by fellow activists
Six environmental protesters were convicted after they were denied the ability to put a “reasonable excuse” defence or climate facts before the jury, despite these being afforded to other activists acquitted for taking part in the same demonstration.
After an eight-day trial at Southwark crown court in London, the six Just Stop Oil (JSO) activists were found guilty of public nuisance, which carries a maximum 10-year sentence, for climbing gantries on the M25 in 2022 to demand an end to new fossil fuel projects. They will be sentenced next month.
The way their case was handled contrasts starkly with that of three other JSO activists who took part in the same demonstration on London’s orbital motorway.
They were found not guilty of public nuisance after the judge at Guildford crown court allowed them to argue a defence of reasonable excuse and prosecutors permitted them to include 12 climate facts in the agreed facts – undisputed by both prosecutors and defence lawyers – presented to the jury. The verdicts in the two cases were less than three weeks apart.
The taxman has the numbers needed to estimate how much cash is lost to overseas havens – but it isn’t sharing the details
An MP has demanded HMRC release its official estimate of how much tax is being lost to offshore havens – information we discovered is currently being withheld by the authority.
A Freedom of Information request by TaxWatch, shared with TBIJ, revealed that in apparent contrast to its previous claims, HMRC holds data needed to estimate the offshore tax gap. But it would not hand the information over.
“We urgently need HMRC to clarify the situation – otherwise we will never crack down on tax dodging,” said Lloyd Hatton MP, who sits on the Public Accounts Committee.
The offshore tax gap is the difference between the amount of tax the UK should collect from offshore sources, and what it actually receives. It puts a number on the cost to the public when people and companies move their money offshore to avoid, evade or fail to declare tax.
HMRC has previously claimed that it holds no estimate for the overall offshore tax gap. But in response to a recent FOI request, the tax authority revealed that it does in fact hold a figure for “offshore tax at risk”.
This number is the amount of tax HMRC thinks could be lost because of avoidance, evasion and non-compliance. HMRC has said itself that this could be used to work out the offshore tax gap. All HMRC would need to do is subtract from it another number called the “compliance yield” – the amount HMRC did manage to claw back through enforcement activities.
HMRC has even published its figures on the compliance yield for offshore-related tax, meaning it already has data needed to calculate the offshore tax gap figure.
But in response to our FOI request, HMRC refused to disclose the “tax at risk” figure on the basis it could “prejudice the effective conduct of public affairs”.
The correspondence calls into question direct statements made earlier this year by the head of HMRC to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), whose role is to scrutinise government departments.
In February, the authority’s CEO Jim Harra wrote to the PAC’s chair to say his organisation did not hold figures on the total offshore tax gap. Instead, he referred to a number published by the agency in 2024.
Back then, this partial number – gathered from self-assessment tax returns – was referred to as “experimental statistics” and it estimated that tax from offshore sources was underpaid to the tune of only £0.3bn.
We urgently need HMRC to clarify the situation – otherwise we will never crack down on tax dodging
Lloyd Hatton, MP
This figure has been called into question as too low by the Public Accounts Committee. By comparison, the UK’s entire tax gap is estimated by HMRC to be nearly £50bn.
Commenting on the new FOI correspondence, Hatton said: “The Public Accounts Committee report [in July] showed that HMRC is incapable of identifying those super-wealthy individuals who choose to squirrel away their wealth – often using offshore accounts in tax havens.
“Without this, it cannot effectively pursue those who deliberately avoid or evade paying their fair share of tax.
“The Committee has pressed for greater transparency concerning tax lost offshore, without this information we cannot properly assess whether HMRC’s compliance efforts are effective or adequately resourced. And – even more crucially – we cannot go after egregious tax dodging.”
A spokesperson for TaxWatch said: “We understand that HMRC has a responsibility to ensure that it’s publishing accurate information. But there seems undue secrecy around this figure, which is routinely published for other types of tax and taxpayer.”
It marks yet another turn in the hunt for clarity on just how much tax is avoided or evaded offshore. In 2022, then Treasury Minister Lucy Frazer vowed that HMRC would publish the much-desired offshore tax gap figure, but in the run-up to the general election, HMRC demurred.
A spokesperson for HMRC said: “We are working to assess the feasibility of broadening the scope of the published estimate of the offshore tax gap, as stated to the Public Accounts Committee, and will report back to them.”
Users have found that Grokipedia lifts large chunks from Wikipedia, contains numerous factual errors and promotes Musk’s favoured rightwing talking points. Photograph: Algi Febri Sugita/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock
From publishing falsehoods to pushing far-right ideology, Grokipedia gives chatroom comments equal status to research
The eminent British historian Sir Richard Evans produced three expert witness reports for the libel trial involving the Holocaust denier David Irving, studied for a doctorate under the supervision of Theodore Zeldin, succeeded David Cannadine as Regius professor of history at Cambridge (a post endowed by Henry VIII) and supervised theses on Bismarck’s social policy.
That was some of what you could learn from Grokipedia, the AI-powered encyclopedia launched last week by the world’s richest person, Elon Musk. The problem was, as Prof Evans discovered when he logged on to check his own entry, all these facts were false.
It was part of a choppy start for humanity’s latest attempt to corral the sum of human knowledge or, as Musk put it, create a compendium of “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth” – all revealed through the magic of his Grok artificial intelligence model.
When the multibillionaire switched on Grokipedia on Tuesday, he said it was “better than Wikipedia”, or “Wokepedia” as his supporters call it, reflecting a view that the dominant online encyclopedia often reflects leftwing talking points. One post on X caught the triumphant mood among Musk’s fans: “Elon just killed Wikipedia. Good riddance.”
But users found Grokipedia lifted large chunks from the website it intended to usurp, contained numerous factual errors and seemed to promote Musk’s favoured rightwing talking points. In between posts on X promoting his creation, Musk this week declared “civil war in Britain is inevitable”, called for the English “to ally with the hard men” such as the far-right agitator Tommy Robinson, and said only the far-right AfD party could “save Germany”.
Musk was so enamoured of his AI-encyclopedia he said he planned to one day etch the “comprehensive collection of all knowledge” into a stable oxide and “place copies … in orbit, the moon and Mars to preserve it for the future”.
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Fossil fuel giant BP is profiteering at the expense of people and planet, say the Scottish Greens. The comments from the party’s climate spokesperson, Patrick Harvie, come as BP has published its profits for Q3 2025.
Earlier this year BP announced that it would cut its renewable energy investments and instead focus on increasing oil and gas production.
Patrick said:
“It has been yet another year of climate chaos around the world, with wildfires and flooding taking a deadly toll.
“Yet times have rarely been better for the polluters and fossil fuel giants who are raking in eye-watering profits while our planet burns and households and families are hammered with escalating bills.
“What makes BP’s profiteering particularly obscene is that they know the damage they are doing and are doubling down on it by rolling back on the few climate commitments that they had made.
“Our energy market will never be fit for purpose as long as it is run by and for multibillion pound corporations like BP and those who are determined to exploit every last drop of oil at the expense of people and planet.”
Patrick added:
“The UK government has a major decision on its hands when it comes to Rosebank. Will they keep the ban in place, or will they cave-in to pressure from the polluter lobby?
“Scotland has a huge renewables potential, but we need our governments to step up, do the work and make the investment that is needed in workers and green jobs.”
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