On 22 June 2026, at the start of London Climate Action Week, Matrix Chambers and Achill Legal organised a National Emergency Briefing for Law on the Climate and Nature Crisis. We have set out our notes from the event covering the main topics each speaker covered.

“Net Zero is costly and difficult and Ed Mibiland should slow down the transition” has been a common refrain in UK political circles recently, from Tony Blair to Rory Stewart to Kemi Badenoch. So we thought we’d write a bit of an explainer on where this fossilised argument goes wrong.

An interview with Stuart Oates - ‘Fossil Free Farming researcher. Organic farmer, TV and Radio Producer, environmental journalist and cameleer in Cornwall who sings a lot’.

We were delighted to catch up with Stuart Oates to discuss some of the ideas we had first heard him discuss on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Farming Today’ programme.

With the news that TerraPower have recieved a construction permit from the NRC for their Natrium plant in Wyoming, and Rolls-Royce SMR have recieved Govt contracts to begin site work in Wales, its encouraging to see advanced nuclear progressing towards the all-important first builds in the US & UK.

The first casualties of wars are the people directly affected; the killed, the wounded and the displaced. Without diminishing that in any way, this article considers some of the impacts of past and present oil shocks on the world’s addiction to fossil fuels, and whether this can finally be a turning point in the energy transition.

In our penultimate COP30 Focus blog we dive into how Fossil Fuels have been treated in this and previous COPs, how non-COP roadmaps to their phase-out are emerging, and how the energy transition is steaming ahead anyway, especially in China.

In the latest of our COP30 focus series, we look at one of the potential highlights of COP30 so far, that of the Republic of Korea signing up to the Powering Past Coal Alliance.

In this blog, we disucss all things data center. What are they? Why are they such a hot topic in climate and energy discussions? And what imapct might they have on our electricity grid and on climate change more broadly?

On a visit to Pakistan I noticed the proliferation of rooftop solar panels that has been a become a story of growing interest in the energy world. So whats going on?

What has Donald Trump done on energy and climate since taking office? What have been the effects of these actions? And are there any glimmers of hope in the chaos?

Second in our series on how we can decarbonise the “have-to-abate” sectors: Iron & Steel, Shipping, Cement, Aviation, Heavy duty transportation, and Chemicals & Petrochemicals. Part 2 - Shipping.

First in a new series on how we can decarbonise the “have-to-abate” sectors: Iron & Steel, Cement, Shipping, Aviation, Heavy duty transportation, and Chemicals & Petrochemicals. Part 1 - Iron & Steel.

In this blog we break down how concrete contributes to CO2 emissions, and look at a promising breakthrough by Cambridge Researchers that may have cracked how to decarbonise this crucial sector

Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) is a synthetic fluorinated compound. It is widely used in the electrical industry, but is the most potent greenhouse gas in existence. In this blog we look at SF6 emissions around the world and see how they are sneaking under the radar but causing massive damage.

CERA Week, one of the world’s biggest energy conferences, was held in Houston in March. A speech by Amin Nasser, CEO of Saudi Aramco, raised some eyebrows, we take a look at his comments in this blog.

In this blog we pick out three decarbonisation trends, one good, one bad, one interesting, from researcher Nat Bullard’s annual presentation.

On 8 November 2023, the Stockholm Environment Institute, E3G, International Institute for Sustainable Development and UNEP published “The Production Gap: Phasing down or phasing up? Top fossil fuel producers plan ever more extraction despite climate promises.”

Read about this important intervention here.

How jet engines are designed to be as efficient as possible today, and what we need to do to take aviation to a Net Zero future - a guest blog by Kyra Thole-Wilson

On 7th July 2023 the IMO adopted a new strategy for reaching an improved set of climate targets. This blog explores whether those targets are enough, and what the future might hold for the decarbonisation of the worlds shipping industry.

As part of our efforts to hear from young people working on fighting climate change around the world we were delighted to be able to interview David Okenwa, a climate activist and recent mechanical engineering graduate from Nigeria who also works for MOCK COP.