The chief executive of Capita Jon Lewis says that if the UK is to meet the new legally binding target of net zero emissions by 2050 "big businesses must play their part".

An eminent American professor of large animal medicine has warned the UK not to dilute its high animal welfare standards for future trade deals with the US.

Ministers will be legally bound to end the UK's contribution to climate change by 2050 under a new target to be introduced by Theresa May.

Lib Dem spokesperson for Environment and Climate Change Wera Hobhouse MP writes to mark World Ocean’s Day that "the urgency of dealing with our addiction to plastics is more important than ever".

Andrea Leadsom has vowed to declare a climate emergency and use Britain’s foreign aid budget to cut carbon emissions around the world if she becomes Prime Minister.

We need to act now or we will look back, as we do with the carnage wrought by asbestos, and think why we didn't act on air pollution, says Matthew Holder, Head of Campaigns at the British Safety Council. 

Michael's Gove's ministerial deputy has backed rival candidate Jeremy Hunt to be the next Tory leader.

Donald Trump has heaped praise on Boris Johnson, saying the Tory leadership hopeful would make an "excellent" Prime Minister.

Coca-Cola European Partners' Sustainable Packaging Manager marks the first anniversary the UK Plastics Pact, which involves the whole plastics value chain and is crucial to working with others in industry to create change in the system. 

Farmers and landowners are being offered the chance to be part of the vast new Northern Forest with heavily subsidized tree-planting incentives.

Conservative MP Richard Graham writes about how the UK has led the way on environmental policy, reducing carbon emissions, improving air quality and increasing waste recycling.

A Labour government would reform school curriculums in England to introduce mandatory lessons on climate change, the party has announced.

Michael Gove has announced that plastic straws, drinks stirrers, and cotton buds will be banned in England from next year.

The Environmental Services Association (ESA), the voice for the UK’s resource and waste management industry, has today responded to the Mayor of London’s statement on Energy from Waste (EfW) in London.

British Safety Council’s report makes the case for urgent action on the impact of air pollution on outdoor workers

CIWM has joined a long list of signatories in a letter to Environment Secretary Michael Gove on the current raft of consultations on reformed packaging producer responsibility, a Deposit Return Scheme, Collection Consistency and the Plastics Packaging Tax.

Hundreds of young people gathered on a former coal mine site as they planted the first trees of Britain’s first Young People’s Forest.

Responding to the announcement yesterday by the Cabinet Secretary Roseanna Cunningham on a Deposit Return Scheme for Scotland, CIWM Scotland has said it is keen that the Scottish resources industry is given a more inclusive role to support the implementation of the scheme.

Ministers must use UK aid spending to tackle the "existential threat" of climate change, a group of influential MPs has said.

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), reports that more than 1 million species are at risk from extinction.

A team of researchers from the University of Oxford, Fera Science, Sylva Foundation and the Woodland Trust has calculated the true economic cost of ash dieback – and the predictions, published today in Current Biology, are staggering:

Michael Gove has called on top players from the food industry to "step up to the plate" and reduce the amount of food wasted in the UK.

The Woodland Trust has welcomed calls by more than 40 local councils to stop advance site clearance for HS2.