Biodiversity

Developers would need to ensure new buildings improve local biodiversity, or invest in nature-projects to offset impacts elsewhere

Commitments made at COP26 are positive signals, but evidence suggests corporate action is yet to match ambition, writes CDP's Thomas Maddox

New guide on how to ensure forest projects deliver promised benefits comes amidst soaring carbon offset prices and fresh calls for improved governance of natural capital projects

Defra says new Local Nature Recovery and Landscape Recovery schemes will work in conjunction with incoming Sustainable Farming Incentive

Amid disheartening and discouraging Covid and climate news, there are a lot of reasons for hope, writes Joel Makower

Green Alliance analysis aims to quantify benefits of reclaiming less than 20 per cent of the city’s car parking spots for green space

Oliver Griffith explains how a Wildlife Works Carbon forest conservation project is helping to both protect the environment while also sustaining local livelihoods in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Lightrock Power has pledged to achieve at least a 20 per cent improvement in biodiversity value at all its developments

European tree-planting, US clean energy procurement plans, and the rest of the green business news from around the world this week

Telecommunications firm has set up a new fund dedicated to investing in reforestation and nature restoration