With nearly £30m of funding, I’m giving communities power over local energy. They know the gravity of global heating, and they want to be part of the solution, says UK prime minister Andy Burnham

The intel from think tank Green Alliance has revealed that replacing the equivalent of two pork sausages per person per week with pulses grown in the UK would provide the same amount of protein and cu...

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This piece was first published by Business Green. Tackling methane is an underused but critical emergency brake on climate change – it’s time the UK used it. The argument over new oil a…

England’s farming system has moved away from area-based subsidies towards payments for public goods, like flood mitigation and improved air quality. The hardships faced by farmers this summer…

Extreme weather is rewiring our food system.  Food retailers are ramping up their investments in British farming and locking in long term agreements with domestic growers. Last month, Sainsbury’s s…

Surviving bluetongue, the sheep farmer's story.

Cutting regulation might sound attractive, but turning back the clock isn’t how we rebuild a sustainable industrial base argues Roz Bulleid, Research and Policy Director, Green Alliance explains.

The UK was wracked by record rainfall and flooding earlier in the year, hard to remember now in the midst of successive deadly heatwaves and mounting threats to food production due to drought.   We…

I spend so much of my time at work thinking about the national challenge we have on the environment, but last weekend I didn’t need to read another climate report. While much of Europe has sp…

I spend so much of my time at work thinking about the national challenge we have on the environment, but last weekend I didn’t need to read another climate report. While much of Europe has sp…

Dame Angela Eagle has been appointed the tenth environment secretary in a decade at a pivotal moment for the environment. She’s no stranger to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), having served as farming minister from September 2025 to June 2026 and as a junior minister in the late 1990s. She brings a wealth of ministerial and parliamentary experience which will be helpful in navigating cross government discussions and persuading colleagues to embrace the view of her permanent secretary that Defra is one of the most important departments in Whitehall.

The King of the North finally has the keys to No 10, after months of manoeuvring and one thwarted by-election later, the new government has been unveiled. As with any new administration, there is a…

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