BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants,

and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain.

While today we're mostly in oil and gas we increased the proportion of our

global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other

transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023.

BP.com slash and not all.

Hi, I'm Adam Vaughan, Environment Editor for the Times.

At the 2024 Times Earth Summit, our discussion on the essential steps for a net zero transition

will be set against a backdrop of the biggest election year in history.

The governments voted in this year will face a crucial period for the sustainability agenda.

This transition will be theirs to accelerate

and all our futures will be affected by whether or not they do so.

To put your ticket to this year's summit, head to TimesEarth Summit.com

forward slash virtual. Hello and welcome to the politics without the boring bits

podcast with me Ed Vasey. It's been three years since the last British

soldiers and diplomats left Afghanistan in the chaotic

fall of Kabul. So I've been finding out what's happened under Taliban rule with the Sunday Times

as Chief Foreign Correspondent Christina Lamb, who's been reporting regularly from there.

First though, this.

The columnists with Alice Thompson and Robert Crampton.

Yesterday the Times reported that enforcement of the law on shoplifting has almost completely collapsed in the past decade.

Today it says the government has acts an immediate justice scheme that

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