Biodiversity

BusinessGreen rounds up the reaction from politicians, campaigners, and green business leaders to the UK's new five-year environmental policy plan

New plan promises to create new nature reserves and drive 'green growth', but campaigners slam 'threadbare patchwork of policies'

The everyday people who enjoy nature should be its guardians, not companies and private landowners looking to make a profit, writes Caroline Lucas

Supermarket giant to test raft of low carbon fertilisers across thousands of hectares of UK farmland in bid to cut supply chain costs and emissions

Green farming groups give proposals a 'cautious welcome', as government confirms six new sets of actions farmers can take to secure green subsidy payments

The targets agreed by governments at COP15 must drive a step change in nature protection policy in the UK, writes the Heart of England Forest's Beth Brook

Trail-blazing scheme is designed to protect one of Europe's last free-flowing rivers in perpetuity

Community-led tree planting projects could deliver a third of England's tree planting targets, according to Green Alliance

Supporting farmers to manage land to expand carbon sinks offers a far cheaper route to net zero than scaling up bioenergy with carbon capture technologies, Green Alliance study argues

Could an innovative partnership between a US clothing firm and the Albanian government provide a new template for corporate conservation efforts?