• Why the Prime Minister must now act to protect environmental standards
    Last week, the Prime Minister promised the House of Commons that ‘we must and will embed the strongest possible protections for workers’ rights and the environment’ after Brexit. She also indicated that...
  • We must act now to save Asian vultures
    Stephanie Morren recently travelled to India to work at a captive breeding centre set up to help re-establish Asian vultures, and wrote this blog about her experiences. They're pretty ugly, all hairless...
  • Act now for tropical forests
    In any analysis of the really, really important environmental issues facing the world there’s one that always tops the list – the need to keep tropical forests standing. Given that is probably one of...
  • 2020: why we must remain conditional optimists
    The end of 2019 was marked by the deeply disappointing Madrid climate change talks. The holiday season was then dominated by news of the appalling fires in Australia , floods in Jakarta and record temperatures...
  • Cleaning up our act
    Last week's move towards peat free compost by B&Q (see here ) reminded me of four tests of sustainability which a friend of mine, Craig Bennett*, once shared. If I remember it correctly, for a business...