Emily Beament

The UK saw one of the biggest drops in greenhouse emissions as a result of measures to slow the coronavirus pandemic at 13 percent, new analysis suggests.

Alok Sharma, Cop26 president, warns promises not enough to put the world on track to limit global warming to 1.5C.

UK government 68 percent carbon target 'important but not sufficient. A more ambitious cut is both feasible and necessary.'

The multi-billion European Common Agricultural Policy will be replaced post-Brexit with some payments linked to environmental stewardship.

The young adult climate event involving more than 350 delegates from 150 countries is taking place over the next two weeks.

What areas does Boris Johnson's plan focus on and why are they important?

Funding will not 'remotely meet the scale of what’s needed to tackle the unemployment emergency and climate emergency we are facing'.

Retrofitting northern homes with energy-efficiency measures would create jobs needed for recovery from the pandemic.

The US president elect has promised $2 Trillion for renewable energy and other climate measures over four years.

Race against time to get paths - which the public has used for centuries - onto official maps so they are not lost forever.

Letters sent to government urging action ahead of a UK-UN climate summit on December 12 marking fifth anniversary of Paris Agreement.

When peatland is degraded, drained and burned it releases carbon, worsening climate change.

Natural Capital Committee finds five of seven areas examined - freshwater, marine, soils, plants and wildlife and land - are deteriorating.

Met Office says future downpours and summer heat will exceed extreme weather already seen in the UK.

The Woodland Trust 'shocked and upset' at the felling of the Cubbington Pear, near South Cubbington Wood, Warwickshire, for the HS2 railway.

True levels of climate finance from rich to developing countries may be just 19-22.5 billion US dollars.

The Woodland Trust is urging millions of people to join its 'big climate fightback' by planting trees this November.

Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) scientists warn ozone hole has reached its maximum size for 2020 as one of the biggest in recent years.

Just 15 percent of England's national parks are now wooded.

'This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to safeguard the environment for the younger generations.'

Latest 'Red List' for maples or Acers reveals 36 of 158 species are at high risk of extinction in the wild.

Labour calls on government to be 'ambitious' by ending the sale of new petrol, diesel, and hybrid cars and vans by 2030.

The Wildlife Trusts warn the proposed changes to the planning system will increase the threat to nature.

The UK will leave the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy at the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020.