Policy

Introduction of 5p plastic bag charge in 2014 has helped avoid seven billion carrier bags from going to waste, according to new data from Defra

As the UK's HGV levy returns, environmental groups call for shift from a flat levy to distance-based charging with exemptions for new zero emission trucks

The combination of performative hostility to environmental issues and contradictory decarbonisation policies only serves to undermine the economic goals the government purports to care about

Campaigners, MPs, green businesses, energy experts, and economists respond to the government's decision to press ahead with 100 new oil and gas projects

Prime Minister insists issuing hundreds new oil and gas licenses will not jeopardise net zero targets, as green groups slam latest 'cynical political ploy to sow division'

Defra sets out vision for designing out waste in products and encouraging repair, reuse and recycling in long-awaited Waste Prevention Programme for England

More than 50 groups including Green Alliance, the National Trust and the RSPB promise to mobilise more than 20 million supporters against 'any and all attacks' on net zero and environmental policy

Mayor of London's plan to expand the Ultra Low Emission Zone to cover the entireity of central London deemed lawful

Further support unveiled for local authorities to recruit ecologists and specialists to protect habits during building work, as Defra reveals statutory biodiversity credit prices

Government's reliance on rapid uptake of electric vehicles to decarbonise transport without reducing demand amounts to 'risky strategy', Transport Committee warns