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"The effect of freezing mileage rates lowers real wages after tax. This might have the unintended benefit of moving more trips to public transport, reducing congestion, pollution, and carbon emissions. But it's also going to reduce the number of people willing to do jobs that require a lot of driving, and many of those are frontline workers we all depend on. Ideally, this might be an opportunity to re-examine tax deductions for mileage more broadly - possibly even leaving those lower so that the costs of using a car are more visible, but making this up with higher standard deductions or wage increases."

"It鈥檚 only getting hotter. The increased incidence of heatwaves is happening now – not forecast for a few years鈥� time. So governments looking to mitigate against climate change need to also be dealing adapting to living with higher temperatures in order to protect lives."

The destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam not only disrupts the generation of electricity, destabilizing the entire power grid; it also leads to flooding of the local area and loss of lives, livelihoods, properties and farmlands.

The Energy Charter Treaty has been labelled 鈥渢he biggest threat鈥� to the Paris Agreement. Dr Tom Pettinger of PAIS explains why, in his view, the UK should withdraw from the ECT and seek a less destructive multilateral energy competition agreement based around a green energy transition.

"We often hear the discourse that 鈥榳e need to save the planet鈥� whereas the reality is that the planet will be just fine, it鈥檚 us that won鈥檛 be." Dr Jess Savage from Global Sustainable Development, comments on the need to change humanity's relationship with the natural environment.