Reporting on the first major revisions to contaminated land guidance in more than a decade
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Over-consumption or over-population – or both?
Consumption and population must both be tackled to prevent economic and environmental catastrophe according to a Royal Society report
Mutual synergies to aid sustainable economic development
How can industrial symbiosis be used to promote sustainable economic development?
Concerns remain over fracking
The Government is likely to give the go-ahead for gas fracking in the UK, despite environmental concerns
Largest onshore windfarm in England and Wales
The Government has approved plans for the Pen Y Cumoedd windfarm, which will be the largest onshore windfarm in England and Wales
Japan shuts down its last nuclear reactor
Japan has shut down its last working nuclear reactor, leaving the country with no nuclear-derived electricity for the first time since 1970
PAS 2050 being adopted in New Zealand
Auckland-based carboNZero Holdings has become the first non-UK company to provide accredited carbon footprint certification under BSI specifications
China’s meat consumption is double the US’s
Over the last five decades, China has gone from 8 million tons of meat consumption to the current amount of 71 million tons
Koalas under threat
The Australian government has listed the iconic koala as a threatened species in parts of the country for the first time