Emily Beament

Greener UK coalition says there is still a chance to enhance environmental protections in final 'report card' on Brexit.

New legislation aims to tackle 'premature obsolescence' in electrical goods and make them more energy efficient.

Public Accounts Committee in UK says no co-ordinated plan, with clear milestones, to achieve legally binding goal to cut emissions by 100 percent by 2050.

Freedom of Information requests reveal local authority pensions invest £9.9 billion in fossil fuel companies.

Common Wealth think tank argues steel contributes 15 percent of the UK’s greenhouse gases from industry and must be decarbonised.

Public Accounts Committee slams Tory government for 'disappointing' progress on its own 2018 25-year environment plan.

Bottom trawling could be prohibited in four English offshore marine protected areas, including Dogger Bank.

Wildlife Trusts lawyers contact environment secretary demanding he demonstrate decision to allow pesticide use is lawful.

The UK Government delays passage of the The Environment Bill, not expected to become law until autumn.

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.