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Sky boss pledges to harness 'power of storytelling' to help drive climate action
EXCLUSIVE: Sky CEO Jeremy Darroch will tell Edinburgh TV Festival that broadcasters should work together to better communicate environmental issues through the critical decade ahead
'Historical underestimation': Nitrogen fertiliser 'overlooked' driver of climate change, Soil Association warns
Phase out of synthetic fertilisers and wider dietary shift away from intensively farmed meat urgently required to curb climate damaging gas, the Soil Association warns
Poll: Most Europeans view climate change as more pressing issue than pandemic
Of seven counties surveyed by Vattenfall, however, UK was the only outlier, where residents now view epidemics as a bigger threat than the climate crisis
World temperature record thought to have been broken in California
Thermometers rose well above 54 degrees Celsius on Sunday afternoon in California's Death Valley, prompting concern from climate scientists
COP26: UN urges nations to deliver enhanced climate plans well ahead of Glasgow Summit
Governments should submit updated Paris Agreement plans 'at least 9-12 months' in advance of crucial climate summit, UN warns
Defra selects English councils to pilot local nature recovery strategies
Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, and Northumberland Councils to share £1m funding to map out pioneering habitat protection plans
Paris Agreement exit would damage reputation of US business, top economists warn
New academic report predicts US will suffer loss of political and economic power if it exits the global climate accord in November
'Overheating audit': How the Mayor of London is crafting extreme heat adaptation plans
EXCLUSIVE: City Hall has today set out a programme of work to help London adapt to a changing climate, focusing on the elderly and young children who are less able to control their environment
'Structural changes are needed': Schroders warns recovery likely to lead to resurgence in global emissions
Latest edition of investment giant's Climate Progress Dashboard warns coronavirus crisis could undermine efforts to put global economy on track for net zero emissions
Developing country climate plans deserve our respect
A number of developing countries are coming forward with ambitious decarbonisation plans, but as Ed King explains, their significance is often too easily ignored
Global Briefing: Coronavirus crisis will have 'negligible' impact on emissions without green recovery, study warns
All the green business news from around the world this week
Can animal-based agriculture ever be truly sustainable?
A major new report from the Environmental Defense Fund asks some challenging questions about the limited progress the agricultural sector has made in tackling its out-sized climate and biodiversity impacts - and offers some invaluable guidance on how...
Zoom in on Net Zero with Professor Michael E. Mann
World-renowned climate scientist and author joins BusinessGreen for a chat about climate justice, US politics, dealing with climate deniers, and the science behind net zero
Alok Sharma: 'I want to urge all businesses to join the Race to Zero Coalition'
COP26 President Alok Sharma's speech yesterday to the Let's Build Back Better event hosted by the British High Commission in Wellington
Report: England's largest landowners must ramp up tree planting efforts
The Church Commissioners of England and Duchy of Cornwall - two of the largest institutional landowners in England - have tree cover rates below the already 'weak' national average of 10 per cent, according to a new study from Friends of the Earth
Vodafone teams up with Defra for digital tree monitoring trial
Telecoms giant to provide Internet of Things sensors to aid research into tree growth and their potential for carbon for CO2 storage
Met Office: 'Undeniable warming trend' impacting UK weather
Climate study reveals average UK temperature in 2019 was 1.1C higher than between 1961 and 1990, with evidence of seasonal shifts already impacting the natural world
On 'newt counting' and net gain
Claims of 'newt counting' slowing down development are a misnomer - biodiversity net gain approaches can improve design, writes AECOM's Robert Spencer
'We don't want to go through this again': Nature protection critical to preventing pandemics, study finds
Combatting deforestation and wildlife trade could avoid costing the planet trillions of dollars in economic disruption, Conservation International estimates
'Rigorous and accountable': IUCN launches global standards for nature-based climate projects
International Union for the Conservation of Nature launches guidelines to help businesses and governments design effective tree planting and nature restoration projects that align with climate targets
Defra plots green planning rules overhaul as it promises nature-friendly recovery
Environment Secretary George Eustice announces £9m for policy pilots as he promises to 'build back greener' after Covid-19 and Brexit
We Mean Business and Amazon team up in support of The Climate Pledge
Global green business coalition to work with tech giant to encourage businesses to adopt more ambitious net zero goals
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