• Trading away the future?

• Return to weekly collections would slash recycling, says DEFRA FREE

• Dump CRC carbon trading, says committee
• Review finds nature needs more space
• 200 green public servants paid over £100k
• RCEP closure puts an end to ‘awkward advice’
• First Reach authorisations agreed
• New campaigns chief for FOE
• Grocery firms miss packaging target
• Green quangos may face the chop
• CDP reveals carbon leaders and laggards
• ENDS infographic: Car emissions respond to regulation and recession

Corporate

• Biomass CCHP to drive John Lewis Partnership carbon emissions cuts

• Unique carbon neutrality scheme revealed by Johnson Matthey
• Agency’s first term report: could do better
• One in seven face redundancy at Arup
• Leading environmental law firms revealed
• Tesco’s carbon emissions rise again
• Sky moves towards its intensity goal
• BP gets kicked off the FTSE4Good
• Wealthiest favour sustainable investing
• Diageo cuts carbon, water and waste

Energy & carbon

• EU emissions plunge towards 20% target as recession bites

• Europe urged on towards 2050 carbon targets
• Heat pump sector must up game, says EST
• Concern grows on African land grab for biofuels
• Low-carbon energy may treble in value by 2020
• UK FITs claimants hit 10,000
• Thanet offshore wind farm opens
• New coal-fired power station for Scotland?
• First UK Solar farm has planning approval
• Cleaner engine oil saves fuel

Pollution & clean-up

• Thames Water publishes plans for public consultation on super sewer

• Scots response to PPC permits remains limited
• Acid rain gains are positive but limited
• Surfers win blue flag beach ruling
• Dust abatement notice served on Shanly
• Polluting fuel laundering plant in Armagh seized
• Health experts ‘reassured’ by landfill and health study

Supply chain

• Marine certification scheme needs major reform, say scientists

• Retailers more open on SVHCs
• O2 launches eco-ratings for mobile phones
• Trials of voluntary product and supply chain reporting standards completed
• Standards agreed for fish and seafood farms
• Coca-Cola publishes water footprints

Waste & resources

• Councils’ recycling rates likely to plummet with change to definition

• Carrier bag cuts behind target
• CPRE reopens debate over bottle deposits
• Flooring sector looks at ways to boost recycling
• Battery recycling picks up
• DEFRA cuts funding for London waste projects
• UK meets 2013 landfill diversion target

Science

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ‘must do better’

• Regulator omits BPA evidence

• Agriculture wrestles with its greenhouse challenge

• Environmental consultancies look east for opportunities
• Taiwan: one to watch
• CAP reform

National

• The UK is ‘unprepared’ for climate change
• Coalition drops plan to raise renewables target
• Water industry’s future set for review
• Experts set out ways to save nature in the UK
• Waste hierarchy plans a mere ‘tick-box exercise’
• Councils slate uniform waste plan in Wales
• More consultation on standard permits
• DEFRA consults on port sediment
• English landfill bans cut, but Wales goes ahead
• Scots boost support for wave and tidal power
• Civil sanctions set for marine licence offences
• BIS consults on corporate reporting
• No decision on future for landfill scheme
• Scotland consults on flood risk management
• Anaerobic digestion plant rules to be eased

International

• CDM market reels as scrutiny increases

• Geneva talks boost climate finance
• EU ETS benchmarks go to the wire
• Review recommends noise policy shake-up
• ECHA consults on SVHC proposals

• Tom Burke's political commentary: corporate culture, risk and responsibility: navigating the abyss

• Chris Huhne makes light work of energy and climate committee
• MPs announce two new inquiries

• Aarhus committee finds UK to be in breach of access to justice rules

• Packaging and WEEE offences cost firm £30K
• Coal firm fined for SSSI breach
• Former waste company director fined
• Packaging waste offences cost food firm £7,500
• Retailer fined for false energy labels
• Petrol leak costs Esso
• Demolition company fined for pollution
• Company director sentenced for illegal tyre activities