The annual and interim climate targets will be replaced with a system measuring emissions every five years.
The Scottish government is to scrap its flagship target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030.
Companies are facing questions from workers over their role in climate change. Aligning employee pay and benefits with environmental concerns is an option.
People who personally experience extreme climate events, especially wildfires and hurricanes, are willing to pay significantly more for climate action, even if they report skepticism about human-caused climate change, finds new research from the University of Vermont.
Next generation organic farmers value work-life balance and don’t want the risks that come with big farms.
Criminals are increasingly targeting cheese sellers and stealing their products, dairy producer’s union Boerderijzuivelbond has said. Cheese heists are nothing new but “over the last few years they have become a real problem”, Wim Meure, chairman of the association, told RTL Nieuws. In 2022, for example, thieves made off with 1,600 kilos of cheese worth €21,000 from a dairy farm in Fijnaart in Noord Brabant. There are no exact figures but cheese is an attractive commodity for thieves, Meure...
There is nothing more important than our environment. My party, campaigners and scientists across the globe have been saying so for years in spite of governments the world over refusing for decades to accept they had to treat the crisis with the urgency it deserves. This must be the turning point and the moment we accelerate the action we are taking to make Scotland net zero. Here and across the UK opportunities have been missed and action delayed to the point that it is simply not possible to...
Special Report: A three-hundred-million pound landmark project for Manchester, set for a high profile launch gig. Then the test event took place The M.E.N. tells the inside story of how the countdown to 'showtime' dramatically stalled.
The SNP-Green coalition facing risk of collapse and abandoned climate
Peter Kay is due to officially open the arena in 48 hours' time, but the building is yet to be signed off. Stephen Topping reports.