Biodiversity
WWF and RSPB: British consumption relies on overseas land area almost the size of the UK annually
RSBP and WWF urge government to capitalise on post-Brexit trade deals as well as the Agriculture and Environment Bills to cut deforestation from the UK’s supply chains.
'The world is ready': Campaigners and academics call on government to scale up Nature Based Solutions
Christiana Figueres, Nick Stern, and Paul Polman lead renewed push for beefed up approach to nature-based emissions reductions
Why Amazon's commitment to working forests matters
Heather Clancy takes the microscope to the tech giant's first foray into nature-based solutions
Carbon market boost: Government launches latest £10m tree-planting auction
Forestry Commission invites farmers and land manages to bid for funding support to create new woodlands to help tackle the effects of climate change
'Planetary computer': Microsoft ramps up sustainability vision with new land protection pledges
Microsoft has pledged to protect more than 11,000 acres of land by 2025, through a range of measures that include land acquisition, national park creation, and backing community- or Indigenous-led conservation efforts.
Environmental charities fear huge nature and climate cost from coronavirus crisis
Green groups come together to warn that welcome financial support from government is failing to go far enough
Nature can still become central to the world's thinking in 2020
As resilience takes more prominence post-coronavirus, restoring nature will be of utmost importance, argues CISL's Dr Gemma Cranston
New rewilding charity to tap crowdfunding to purchase and restore depleted land
New charity Heal plans to raise £7m to buy and rewild 500-acres (200ha) of land in southern England within two years, before replicating the project further afield.
SDG15: Life on Land
All BusinessGreen's coverage on SDG15 and the global effort to protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems and halt biodiversity loss
SDG14: Life Below Water
All BusinessGreen's coverage on SDG14 and the global effort to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
'Promote international co-operation in health': UK and China hint at opportunity for COP Summits
Boris Johnson and Xi Jinping agree to continued co-operation in face of coronavirus crisis and hint at plans for climate and biodiversity summits
Coronavirus: Earth Hour goes digital, as UN warns 'nature is sending us a message'
Organisers of this weekend's global event urge participants to mark Earth Hour online as global pandemic continues to escalate
Caught out? UK supermarkets accused of 'turning blind eye' to unsustainable fish feed
Investigation indicates UK shoppers may be indirectly and unknowingly consuming wild fish in their farmed fish products
UPM inks €750m sustainability-linked loan to help drive climate action
Forestry giant secures revolving credit facility with BNP Paribas to help drive sustainable forest management initiatives
SDG15: How carbon offsets are protecting forests - and changing lives
Corporate investment in carbon offsets is helping to fund a project in West Africa that is delivering on multiple Sustainable Development Goals through its protection of precious forest habitats and its services for local communities
SDG15: How can businesses best protect life on land?
From natural capital accounting and nature based solutions to vertical farming and net zero strategies, a suite of policies are emerging to help businesses support SDG15 and protect life on land
'Reverse nature's decline': Government unveils sweeping farming subsidy reforms
Long awaited proposals for Environmental Land Management scheme announced, as government looks to reward farmers for environmental efforts such as tree planting, flood protection, and wildlife restoration
Finding a natural sense of urgency to act
Mike Hower takes a biomimicry hike and reflects on what sustainability executives can learn from the desert
General Mills, Danone dig deeper into regenerative agriculture with incentives, funding
Food giants cultivate new pilots and financing programs
Ethical beef? Fresh range goes UK-wide with 'wildlife-friendly' red meat
Online ethical grocer Fresh-range announces it is to expand its operations to cover England, Wales, and most of Scotland
WWF: Environmental degradation on course to cost global economy £8tr
Key impacts include loss of natural coastal and flooding protection, disappearance of natural carbon storage sinks, and steep rises in prices of key commodities
'Trees are vital': Government dishes out first wave of Urban Tree Challenge funding
Thirteen projects set to deliver tens of thousands of new trees by 2021 as government looks to deliver on manifesto tree-planting pledges
SDG14: How to develop a cleaner ocean strategy
From nurturing ocean carbon sinks to encouraging marine clean tech, there are steps all businesses can take to accelerate progress towards SDG14
Trump hits out at 'prophets of doom' as US joins global tree conservation drive
President announces US will join Trillion Trees initiative to grow, save, and better protect one trillion trees around the world by 2050
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