Environment & Sustainability Management

Engineering firms Arup and Spirax-Sarco Engineering have revealed new net-zero carbon targets, with Arup targeting net-zero emissions by 2030 and Spirax-Sarco aiming for 2040

Food retailer Iceland and leading green campaign groups have called on retailers to reveal how much plastic packaging they use, after the firm’s managing director described its own consumption as 'simply terrifying'

A major UN report analysing the global state of nature shows how a decade of policy inaction has spiked worldwide biodiversity targets as nature continues to freefall and species extinctions accelerate

An official register of environmental health professionals is being formalised by the government to help local authorities in England tackle the coronavirus pandemic

The government has paid out £3.9m to support a nitrates trading platform intended to clear the housing logjam across south Hampshire where planning decisions for 10,000 homes have been frozen due to excess nitrates causing killer algal blooms in a protected area

Environmental consultancies are feeling the pinch as a result of coronavirus lockdown measures. ENDS takes the pulse of the market, and finds out which service areas are believed likely to grow even in these tough economic conditions

Environmental statements can run to thousands of pages, costing developers up to £250,000. Some see the process as impenetrable. But efforts to transform it through digital technology are gathering pace, in part due to Covid-19 social distancing measures and restrictions on movement

Environmental professionals are turning to digital solutions to help them keep working during the Covid-19 pandemic. But some pioneering efforts to use technology to maintain momentum on development projects have been hit by YouTube ‘violations’, online trolls, and controversy over a cat that was thrown during a Zoom meeting

Experts say the coronavirus pandemic has increased the appetite for digital working in the environmental space. When the crisis is over, what will business as usual look like?

Shell has set out a high-level plan for reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, hot on the heels of BP’s pledge to go net zero, but green groups remain unconvinced. ENDS take a look at the big firms making big promises