Science

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including China ETS forecasts, India's infrastructure blitz and Germany's CO2 rise

Activist plots fortnight of civil disobedience across capital from Monday in bid to ramp up pressure for action at COP26

UN agency's first ever child-focused climate risk assessment index reveals scale of youth vulnerability to events such as cyclones, heatwaves or flooding, and the lack of essential services to help them

China and UN confirm plans to split key negotiations for potential global treaty for biodiversity into two parts, with virtual talks set for October followed by in-person meeting next year

Report by WWF, Marine Conservation Society and RSPB claims UK fisheries are responsible for emitting nearly 1,000 kilotons of CO2 in a year

The sustainable oyster reef in Dornoch Firth will help to purify the water and could act as a carbon store

Tesco dairy farmers to receive 80 per cent seed subsidy for plants and herbs it claims can boost animal health, water and soil quality while also cutting emissions

Gerard Manley from Olam Food Ingredients makes the case for corporate natural capital accounting

Glasgow University spinout secures attracts investment to trial what it claims to be the 'world's first' nature-inspired bio-pesticide

Climate economists have calculated the economic impacts of permafrost thawing, arctic ice loss, rainforest dieback and other events – and the results are predictably eyewatering