Feature Articles

Since the end of lockdown, littering in public places has been on the rise, indirectly damaging businesses as well as leading to very real clean-up costs. Here, Laura King explores what businesses can do to combat litter in their local area.

Although the focus on climate change can often be on how to limit emissions, organisations also need to ensure they are able to adapt. Laura King considers how.

Laura King outlines six ways to prepare your business against inclement weather this winter.

Researcher and employment law writer at Croner-i, Opeyemi Ogundeji, details how employers can deal with a situation where staff refuse to take the Covid-19 vaccine and/or partake in in-house testing.

During the journey of reducing carbon emissions, your business may face harsh realities where carbon audits reveal much more than direct operational and logistical emissions. With the UK pledging to reach net zero by 2050, putting pressure on businesses to improve their office operation, Max Starr provides quick and easy tips to help reduce your digital carbon footprint.

Solving energy shortages, “building back greener” and tackling climate change are high-level issues that once major decisions are taken, must be delivered by thousands of companies in their ordinary daily operations. Jon Herbert reports on what lies ahead.

After a 12-month delay due to the Covid pandemic, COP26 finally got underway at the weekend. Hosted by the UK and Italy, world leaders and climate negotiators gathering in Glasgow have just two weeks to thrash out an agreement for what many believe to be the last chance to save the planet from the irreversible consequences of climate change. But, as John Barwise explains, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the main cause of climate change, remains the biggest challenge.

On 18 January 2021, the High Court gave judgment in the case of Wild Justice v Natural Resources Wales. Wild Justice challenged the lawfulness of licences to kill or take wild birds issued by Natural Resources Wales.

With the government having announced in November 2020 that no more petrol or diesel cars and vans will be sold after 2030 and with it confirmed that the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles up to 26 tonnes will be banned by 2035, it is evident that some major changes are coming for the transport industry and the fleet of vehicles that keep the country running.

Climate change and workplace health may seem to be separate issues. In practice they have overlapping priorities, interests and solutions that can be mutually beneficial. Jon Herbert reports.