Environment

"It’s clear from the evidence we have collected that the new peatland burning regulations in England are not working and that burning is still taking place at a massive scale."

“The insurance companies are using bullying tactics."

"Rather than making fossil fuel companies pay their fair share, the public purse will actually be subsidising this climate-wrecking investment to the tune of almost £6bn. This is obscene.”

"For the month, I set aside my ethics and my morals and instead just floated along in the breeze of consumerism."

"If it's bad for the climate, bad for countryside, bad for long-term jobs and steel industry doesn't want it, what reasons are there left Gove?"

The proposals have been unveiled in a bid to reduce dependence on Russian fossil fuel and scale up the transition to green energy.

More than 46,000 people signed a petition urging the Government to reject the scheme.

“It’s just a really overwhelming and dramatic situation," a local resident said.

In 2015, the chance of exceeding the key threshold for global warming was zero.