Policy

IN FOCUS: Consumer and regulatory pressure means all eyes are on businesses to deliver on their sustainable packaging goals - but can innovative solutions really deliver promised environmental gains?

New report from InfluenceMap praises those corporates lobbying for bolder climate action, but warns too much of the business community remains 'on the sidelines' in the public climate policy debate

New £1.5m fund to enable feasibility studies for planned green shipping corridors between the UK, Norway, Denmark, and the Netherlands

Peers defeat amendments that would have effectively removed nutrient neutrality rules for housebuilders, throwing government plans into disarray

The world’s biggest economies may have signed up to the Breakthrough Agenda two years ago, but critical clean technologies are still struggling to break through

Ministers claim new scheme will help upgrade more than 300,000 inefficient homes, delivering annual energy bill savings of £300 to £400

Interventions, regulations, and incentives that make greener choices more attractive, affordable, and convenient will be key to delivering UK climate goals, according to social science researchers

Government provides update on crucial green farming subsidy programme, as farmers are invited to bid for new solar funding

Sizzle's Trewin Restorick questions whether it is time for progressive companies to criticise government on climate issues more loudly

Office of Environmental Protection identifies 'possible failures to comply with environmental law in relation to regulatory oversight of untreated sewage discharges'