Environment & Sustainability Management

The current approach to Japanese knotweed is ‘overly cautious’ and more academic research is needed into its effects on the built environment, according to a cross-party group of MPs

Water industry regulator Ofwat is considering introducing more stringent environmental reporting requirements for water companies and possible financial rewards for the best performers

The amount spent by the government on preventing, reducing and eliminating environmental degradation has barely changed in a decade, according to the Office of National Statistics

DEFRA last week launched a research programme which it says will inform and shape key future policy decisions on some of the UK’s “most pressing environmental issues”

Chancellor Philip Hammond has set out his support for placing “sustainability into the heart of our economic model” at a meeting with business and environment groups

More companies will have to report their energy use and carbon emissions when new rules designed to simplify the reporting process enter into force on 1 April

After massive penalties for a litany of environmental offences and missed leakage targets, Thames Water is trying to take a new direction. But regulators still need to be convinced, finds Gareth Simkins

Environmental impact assessment in the UK has long been considered to have a problem with proportionality. Why does this matter and what can be done to improve the situation? Isabella Kaminski investigates

Regardless of Brexit, businesses will have to meet an array of environmental regulation deadlines this year. Here are 10 key deadlines to look out for

The highly-anticipated waste and resources strategy, published this week, covers many of the issues the waste sector has been pushing for action on, but is DEFRA’s plan a real statement of intent or a delay tactic? Conor McGlone investigates