The Global Warming Policy Foundation has appointed a University College Dublin professor to its academic advisory council.

The government still contains four ministers who criticised “government-subsidised green technology” back in 2012, but one of them seems to have changed his mind about state intervention since then, and there are some new environmentally-friendly faces around too.

Geoffrey Supran, a climate researcher at Harvard University, said the UK government had its priorities “completely backwards” if the meetings could be seen as a proxy for where ministers were focusing attention.

Campaigners are urging ministers to "keep the coal in the ground" as an inquiry into the Whitehaven mine begins.

The authors highlight the disproportionate impact of climate change on low-income countries, and urge richer nations to take the lead in cutting emissions.

Greenpeace has taken the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to court over the Vorlich oilfield permit granted to the oil company in 2018.

Campaigners have said the findings show the group "has no authority to criticise electric cars" and is "driven by vested engine interests".

Alongside the broad church of earnest opposition, disparate political interests adopted a series of talking points against the schemes for their own gain.

Environmentalists raise concern that a senior policy manager for the biomass producer may have had input on UK climate policy.

The proposed legislation has so far won the support of 110 MPs across eight political parties - but still has a long way to go.