The Environment Agency (EA) has intercepted an increasing number of illegal shipments containing contaminated agricultural plastic waste destined for countries around the world. This comes not long after the EA repatriated 21 containers with nearly 13,000 tonnes of waste that were illegally exported to Sri Lanka in October. This has Read more…
The Task Force on Climate-related Disclosures (TCFD) was established in 2015 by the international Financial Stability Board. It is based on the growing consensus that climate change has immediate effects on economic decisions. Investors are growing more aware of climate-related risks and putting more faith in organisations that are planning Read more…
Earlier this week, Rishi Sunak and the FCA announced that climate risk disclosure would become mandatory for many of the UK’s largest organisations by 2025. As part of the announcement, Sunak also revealed a new green bond designed to stimulate sustainable growth and reinforce Britain’s position as a global green Read more…
In 2019 EU leaders endorsed the European Commission’s Green Deal, a strategy through which to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. Since then there’s been a slow but steady rise in legislation around, and investment in, renewable energy, low carbon solutions and, more recently, carbon sequestration and storage. The objective has Read more…
It’s difficult to find a silver lining in the Covid-19 crisis, but perhaps one good thing to come of the national lockdown (aside, of course, from all the freshly baked bread) were the reports of better air quality across major UK cities where levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) have been Read more…