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.

The Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) report published today outlines the stark increase in woodland expansion needed to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The report recognises that neither internally legally binding targets (as enshrined in the Climate Change Act) nor externally binding commitments (the Paris Accord) will be met given the current trajectory in the reduction of carbon emissions.

The Bishop of St Albans writes ahead of a question in the House of Lords on 'Impact of rural crime on farming communities'.

Ministers should commit to an “ambitious new goal” of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050, a Government advisory body has said.

Commenting on a new report from the Committee on Climate Change, Labour MPs Rachel Reeves and Mary Creagh says addressing the 'climate emergency' will deliver new jobs, sustainable and globally innovative industries, to reinvigorate our industrial towns and cities. 

Jeremy Corbyn will today call on MPs to do their "historic duty" and make the UK Parliament the first in the world to declare a climate emergency.

The British Plastics Federation (BPF), which represents the whole supply chain of the UK plastics industry, has published a position paper supporting the aims of the Norway proposal on plastic waste exports.

Labour will this week force a Commons vote on declaring a national climate emergency.

Liam Fox has been branded a “dinosaur” in his attitude to climate change after he called on the public to help tackle it regardless of if they believe scientists’ explanations of its causes.

The climate change protesters who have brought parts of London to a standstill in a bid to highlight the plight of the planet should go and "lecture" China instead, Boris Johnson has suggested.

Sajid Javid has urged the Metropolitan Police to use the ‘full force of the law’ against climate change protesters who are blocking traffic and holding up public transport.

Plaid Cymru's Shadow Minister for Environment and Rural Affairs Llyr Gruffydd AM says that the schoolchildren protesting over climate change have given politicians a mandate to act and says that "individuals, governments, politicians, political parties and public organisations worldwide" must all come together to solve this emergency.

IKEA UK today announces that IKEA Greenwich has achieved an ‘Outstanding’ BREEAM UK New Construction certification, a sustainability rating and accolade held by just 320 buildings around the world.