The UK risks missing its target to protect nature in the next six years without more action
This post is by Kate Jennings, head of site conservation and species policy at the RSPB and a member of the Protected Areas Working Group (PAWG) of th...
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The biggest climate policy you’ve (probably) never heard of
Politics is strange. This week, the House of Commons passed into law potentially the single biggest climate policy in the government’s entire net ze...
Offshore licensing isn’t the point, major reform of oil and gas regulation is needed
Offshore oil and gas licensing has moved to centre stage. Environmental campaigners have mounted legal challenges to the government’s expressed supp...
The economy can’t continue to grow unless vital assets are preserved
This post is by Dimitri Zenghelis, The Bennett Institute, University of Cambridge By promoting sustainable practices and reducing the demand for new r...
The UK has unique power over one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots
Over 1,050 miles from the tip of South America, in the South Atlantic Ocean, is a UK overseas territory without a permanent population, South Georgia...
Why is it so hard for Black Friday to be green?
Estimates suggest around half of UK adults will be tempted by the Black Friday sales this year. But most of their purchases are likely to end up as wa...
Doing more to cut methane would be an easy win for UK climate leadership
Two years on from the Global Methane Pledge, signed by 150 nations, including the UK, the need for action on methane has become more urgent. Methane i...
The solution to the UK’s growing flood risk is lots more wetlands
This post is by Emma Pollitt, policy and advocacy officer at the WWT, the charity for wetlands and wildlife. Thousands of homes flooded and crops rott...
The Agricultural Transition Plan should be a plan for nature positive farming
There are only seven years left to meet England’s species abundance target to halt nature decline by 2030 and then reverse it by 2042. Yet nearly on...
International treaties can’t reach targets on their own without major investment
According to the World Economic Forum, $44 trillion of global economic value is moderately or highly dependent on nature and its services, making up o...
