The latest environmental news from the UK, brought to you by UNEP/GRID-Arendal.

DorsetWe went uphill from the reedy fringes of the Stour beside Sturminster's old stone bridge.

Small-scale renewable electricity schemes could generate more than twice the output of Sizewell B nuclear power station by 2020 if Ministers improve the proposed Clean Energy Cash-back scheme (or feed-in tariff), due to be launched in April next year, according to figures released today (Monday, 30 November 2009) by Friends of the Earth.

As the BBC's Green Wales season starts, a survey suggests three-quarters believe human behaviour is causing climate change.

Pledges made so far by governments to cut greenhouse gases are not enough for an effective pact to fight climate change, European Commission President Jos' Manuel Barroso said on Sunday (29 November).

Only seven days to go now, in the Countdown to Copenhagen - one week until 192 nations come together to try to negotiate a new international climate treaty that will allow the world to deal with the potentially catastrophic threat of global warming.

5 December: "The Wave" march in London, from Grosvenor Square to the Houses of Parliament to urge UK to be a leader in Copenhagen

The leader of the British National Party (BNP), Nick Griffin, is to represent the European Parliament at the UN Climate Change conference in Copenhagen next week.