United Kingdom: Clean Air / Pollution

Sustainable leather replacements are becoming highly sought after. A team from Newcastle University and Northumbria University has developed a self-healing mycelium-based leather substitute...

The UK's water sector is not just evolving; it is undergoing a monumental transformation, presenting infrastructure investors with an extraordinary chance to participate in building...

One of the most common questions we receive from clients is: What's the point of carrying out commercial property searches?

On 27 March 2011 the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) laid a report before Parliament on company reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

On 27 March 2012 the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) published long awaited proposals to simplify the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC), the mandatory UK-wide scheme in respect of carbon emissions.

John Hurdley, Partner at Bircham Dyson Bell LLP believes that The Secretary of State has played a careful hand and taken sensible measures with regard to the plan for managing and harnessing the increasingly scarce but vital resource of water - set out in the Water White Paper.

While much of the focus with the Omnibus Directive has been on its amendments to CSRD and CS3D, it's important not to overlook the significant changes Omnibus proposes to make to the CBAM regime.

New analysis from BNP Paribas Real Estate's Next X data tool has revealed the top ten greenest cities in the UK, and Cambridge leads the way as the UK's most sustainable city.

Farming, housing, habitats and infrastructure are some of the major uses of land across England. The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is currently reviewing land use...

As discussed in our February legal briefing, the EU Commission has recently proposed a sustainability "Omnibus" package, intended to deliver on its simplification agenda by amending certain key legislation - the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive ("CSRD"), the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive ("CS3D") and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism Regulation ("CBAM") with concurrent changes to the detail of the Taxonomy Regulation.

Chemicals widely used across different industries are linked to health issues and environmental pollution.

Legend has it that the first coffee consumers were goats – and that the energetic properties of coffee were discovered by Ethiopian farmers who noticed their goats were far more animated after consuming coffee cherries.