Leaked documents show that Natural England, the official wildlife agency, is to increase its income from 'discretionary chargeable advice' to developers and landowners, writes EMMA HOWARD - while also failing to prosecute wildlife crime or challenge damaging developments.
… News Conservation Politics UK Corporations Development pennine-bog-cut.jpg Leaked … wildlife crime or challenge damaging developments. England's top natural … and at the national level around policy development" The document is understood to …
9,000 new homes in the 'fast track' housing development zones created by the UK government are in areas of flood risk, making them potentially uninhabitable and uninsurable, according to a Greenpeace investigation - and that's before accounting for the increased flood risk from by climate change. Meanwhile future levels of funding for flood control are looking highly uncertain.
… Energydesk | 8th January 2015 News Water Development UK Floods Politics … 9,000 new homes in the 'fast track' housing development zones created by the UK government … the areas earmarked for fast-tracked housing development by a flagship government scheme …
A recently discovered peatland in northeast Peru contains two years worth of US carbon emissions, writes Joe Sandler Clarke, but it's under threat from the rapidly advancing 'palm oil frontier'. Now scientists are calling for the wetland's immediate protection - before it's too late to save it.
… States. Scientists have said that economic development in the region, like road-building … a lecturer in geography and sustainable development St Andrews University and one of … the authors of the research, explained. "The development of commercial agriculture and …
President Trump's recent executive order could open an area of America's most precious landscapes bigger than Yellowstone to oil drilling and coal mining, write Lawrence Carter & Joe Sandler Clarke. The 27 monuments 'under review' harbour huge volumes of oil, gas and coal: just what's needed to fuel Trump's vision of fossil fuel-led development - never mind the cost to scenery, wildlife, historic sites and indigenous cultures.
… to fuel Trump's vision of fossil fuel-led development - never mind the cost to scenery, … monument's protections on natural resource development. Last week, Zinke argued that, following energy development, land can be returned "to equal or …
With Fairtrade Fortnight in full swing, Ruth Styles caught up with People Tree founder, Safia Minney, and Swallows director, Santo Haque, to find out why hand weaving is set to be fashion's next big scandal
… [in Bangladesh and India] that promotes urban development which concentrates money into the … the opposite; we should be looking at rural development, we should be looking at how to … you’ve got to have input in terms of fabric development; you’ve got to have proper quality …
Greece might be in dire financial straights but for the country’s best-known natural beauty brand, things have never been better. Ruth Styles caught up with Lena Korres to find out why
… customer in mind,’ says head of product development and co-founder, Lena Korres. ‘I … market is still in its early years of development, making it difficult to source all …
Making Ghana’s cocoa sector more sustainable isn’t the easiest of tasks but for the Louis Bolk Institute’s Christian Mensah that’s all part of the job. Ruth Styles caught up with him to find out how he’s doing it
… They need infrastructure to support the development of certification supply chains and they need support to facilitate the development of a credible system of assurance … in natural resources management and rural development is critical to reducing poverty, …
If the thought of investing makes you go cold, it might be time for a rethink. As Ruth Styles and Ben Hudson discovered, there’s a growing number of ethical investment funds out there making your money work hard for the planet
… touchy-feely ethical benefits,’ says Jon Lee, Development Officer at the Ecological Building … than £2million for land management and social development, including reforestation. 18 … commitments to human rights, international development, animal welfare and the …
As Greece prepares for its referendum, Takis Grigoriou takes Greece to task for its highly polluting lignite power sector, its ditching of a successful solar program in favour of more coal, the minimal insulation in its buildings that locks in high fuel bills, and Syriza's failure to tackle these issues. The good news? Greece's latest €1.4bn coal project looks like going unfunded.
… than economic - to determine its course of development and protect its assets. Soon the … while putting an abrupt end to solar energy development by blocking new applications. … was the €700 million through the German Development Bank (KfW), the product of a …
EDF has already moved heavy earth moving gear onto the Hinkley C nuclear power station construction site, writes Doug Parr - but that doesn't mean it's a done deal. On the contrary, a host of intractable problems are coming home to roost, and the increasingly troubled project is looking shakier than ever.
… democratic principles would require that all developments were subject to full public …
A tangle of undercapitalised companies are coming forward to cash in on old deep coal mines in Wales, writes Guy Shrubsole - by digging them all out from above from huge open cast pits. But local communities, alarmed at the noise, pollution and destruction of landscape, increasingly see coal as an industry that's best consigned to the scrapheap.
Coal companies trying to revive 'zombie' open cast mines in Wales Guy Shrubsole Greenpeace Energydesk | 24th February 2016 Activism Energy Coal Fossil Fuels Mining Corporations UK Wales Politics …
Last week's Bonn negotiations saw the world move closer to a climate agreement at COP21 in Paris, writes Ruth Davis. The current text includes important proposals on climate finance; accelerated decarbonisation of the global economy; and a 5-year cycle of ever higher national emissions targets.
Bonn climate talks brought COP21 agreement closer Ruth Davis Greenpeace Energydesk | 29th October 2015 Comment Climate Change Unfccc COP21 christiana-figueres-cut.jpg Last week's Bonn negotiations …
Playing with hyenas, hunting with cheetahs and running with wild dogs is all in a day's work for Kim Wolhuter. He tells Ruth Styles why he does it
… central India, approved under the UN's Clean Development Mechanism, is destroying forests … room for wildlife as Africa grapples with development? How poaching for the illegal …
Across Africa, the traditional idea of safari parks is getting an overhaul - and where once locals were excluded, models with community involvement are finding long-term success
… the only ones getting involved in community development. At Kwandwe , a reserve on South … day is Shepherd Mawire, Pamushana’s Community Development Coordinator. His extremely varied … room for wildlife as Africa grapples with development? How poaching for the illegal …
From recycling schemes to conserving green spaces, Ruth Styles rounds up the UK's eco-friendliest places to live
… – particularly embedding sustainable development into their decision-making … and aims to minimise the visual impact of new developments. Leeds also does well on … on shopping. What’s in the area? A host of redevelopments are planned in central Coventry, …
India's renewable power capacity is set to reach 170GW by 2022, write Areeba Hamid & Oliver Tickell - reducing power shortages and bringing electricity to off-grid of rural communities for the first time. But it may also have an unintended consequence - cutting off investment in India's troubled coal sector as prospects for future profitability evaporate..
… India" and "signals India's commitment to the development and scaling up of renewable energy …
Between 2011 and 2016 the UK's export finance agency UKEF provided £109m to underwrite exports of equipment to coal mines in Russia, writes Lawrence Carter - despite the agency's commitment not to support 'investment in dirty fossil-fuel energy production'. And that's just a fraction of the £6.9 billion UKEF has lavished on the corrupt, polluting sector since 2000, while it was meant to be backing the clean energy technologies of the future.
… country's nascent offshore oil sector. These developments have led to concern that the use …
The UK's financing of fossil fuels abroad increased tenfold in two years to exceed £1 billion in 2013 / 2014, writes Christine Ottery. Incredibly, the fossil fuel funding increase came after a government promise to use the money to support 'innovative and green technologies'.
… of the UKEF backing for Russian fossil fuel developments has even gone to US-based Joy … countries. A recent report by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) revealed that the …
What's the new 'big thing' in energy? Of course, cheap, abundant solar power is very new and very big. But to make it work on a really large scale we need to be able to store its energy to use when we need it, not just when the sun is shining. Soon the batteries will be there to make that possible - at a price we can afford. And that will be a very big thing, indeed.
… this ignores one of the biggest technological developments of our climate-stressed times: …
Investigative reporters working for Greenpeace UK's Energydesk have uncovered a nexus of senior academics willing to accept large sums of money from fossil fuel companies to write reports and newspaper articles published under their own names and university affiliations, without declaring the funding. Lawrence Carter & Maeve McClenaghan spill the beans ...
Climate 'academics for hire' conceal fossil fuel funding Lawrence Carter Maeve McClenaghan Greenpeace Energydesk | 9th December 2015 News Fossil Fuels Climate Change Science UK US ted-cruz-cut.jpg …
Can the planet’s cultural and natural heritage be protected during a war? Ruth Styles talks Syria, conservation and natural wonders with Kishore Rao, head of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre
The Ecologist meets… UNESCO's Kishore Rao Ruth Styles | 15th March 2012 Ethical Living UNESCO World Heritage Sites Travel Conservation Natural World Wildlife Nature Monuments Grand Canyon Taj Mahal …
Despite Labour's 'great purge' of left-leaning voters in the leadership election, Jeremy Corbyn remains the odds-on bookies favourite. So if he comes to power, what policies can we expect in energy and climate change? Damian Kahya asks the questions ... and is astounded at the range and scope of his ambitions. But how much could he really deliver?
… want to encourage municipal and cooperative developments of energy, essentially the more …
High in fat and with a carbon footprint to match, cow’s milk is neither the greenest or healthiest milk available. So what are the alternatives? Here are 10 of the best
… Lang, Food Commissioner at the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC): 'The heavy …
From the brands making strides towards reducing packaging to the nail polishes made without toxins, Green Living Editor Ruth Styles salutes the beauty brands who have gone further for the planet this year
Eco beauty heroes 2011 Ruth Styles | 29th November 2011 Ethical Living Eco Beauty Health And Beauty Skincare Cosmetics Make-up Perfume holding.jpg From the brands making strides towards reducing …