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Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey delivered a speech at the Natural History Museum to mark the start of the UN nature conference, CBD COP15, in Montreal
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, at a Royal Society Conference, 19 October 2021.
Emma Howard Boyd delivers a speech hosted virtually from The Hague, Netherlands.
The new schemes will support nature recovery and climate action by rewarding farmers in their local area, alongside sustainable and profitable food production.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
New Green Finance Strategy and Nature Markets Framework to develop growth of green finance.
Emma Howard Boyd's final speech as Chair of the Environment Agency.
From the heights of Three Peaks of the Yorkshire Dales to the coastlines of Northumbria, Natural England offers some very special places that anyone can explore completely free of charge
Natural England unveils the Biodiversity Metric 3.0 to help developments achieve biodiversity net gain and give back to nature
Speech to launch the Environmental Improvement Plan, a blueprint to charge nature recovery.
The Government has announced steps to assist farmers with the availability of fertilisers to address uncertainty amongst growers and keep costs down for farmers
Lord Goldsmith has announced UK funding for nature and biodiversity through the Reversing Environmental Degradation in Africa and Asia (REDAA) programme.
Environment Agency Chair Alan Lovell and Floods Minister Rebecca Pow stress importance of managing flood risks in a changing climate.
New research enables a better understanding of the lifecycle of critically endangered European eels and how to combat their decline.
Farmers and landowners across three river catchments in Yorkshire and the North West are harnessing the power of nature in a pilot scheme to better protect the major road network from flooding.
'Biodiversity Net Gain’ to be introduced from November helping deliver the nature friendly homes of the future
UK will spend at least £3bn of international climate finance on nature and biodiversity over five years.
Natural England, in collaboration with Clinton Devon Estates, has announced today (Thursday 13 May), a new National Nature Reserve (NNR) for the vitally important East Devon Pebblebed Heaths near Exeter.
Statement by Lord Goldsmith at WWF Side Event at the 2020 High-Level Political Forum on the Sustainable Development Goals
Charles Banner KC has been appointed as the interim Chair of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
Cattle in Lincolnshire are wearing new smart collars to help improve precious sand dune habitats.
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