Policy

All the top reaction from diplomats, businesses, environmental groups, and nature experts to the hard-fought final agreement at the COP17 UN Biodiversity Summit in Yerevan

Decisions reached on nature finance, tackling harmful subsidies, and halting biodiversity loss after fraught negotiations in Yerevan, but fears remain progress towards global targets remains far too slow

Review of climate risk disclosures from 31 public bodies reveals a 'mixed picture' when it comes to tackling escalating climate-related threats

Rules requiring major infrastructure projects to deliver 10 per cent biodiversity uplift enter into force

Closing plenary gets under way in Armenia despite deep divisions on contentious issues surrounding biodiversity funding, nature-harming subsidies, scientific evidence, and nature genetics

Middle East crisis helps fossil fuel giants more than double year-on-year profits, which campaigners decry as a 'kick in the teeth' for UK billpayers

Plus, record atmospheric greenhouse gas levels, Trump to 'terminate' Biden-era methane rules, Radisson opens its first net zero hotel in Africa

September saw the highest ever number for grants issued in a single month through the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, fresh figures show

World witnessing 'the makings of one of the largest movements for nature in recorded history’, but system-wide action still needed to rescue flagship goals, according to UN report

Government promises 'root-and-branch' water sector reform after regulators publish first-of-a-kind joint performance review