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Launched in 2020 by HRH Prince William, The Earthshot Prize rewards ground-breaking solutions to the biggest environmental challenges our planet faces.

• Updated: 4 November 2022

To mark the forthcoming COP27 meeting, students took part in a debate 'COP27: the Voice of Youth from Glasgow to Sharm El-Sheikh' in Astana.

• Updated: 28 October 2022

The Embassy worked with local and international partners to support locals organise the second Local Youth Climate Change Conference.

• Updated: 27 October 2022

Join the discussion on climate change resilience, socio-economics and adapting to changing coastlines by registering for PACCo’s 2 informative webinars.

• Updated: 5 October 2022

UK PACT supports coffee producing communities in Veracruz, Mexico with projects to mitigate the effects of climate change.

• Updated: 3 October 2022

British Embassy and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) met with partners to discuss climate change issues on 6 September 2022.

• Updated: 29 September 2022

The COP26 President's keynote remarks focus on the prioritisation of adaptation at COP26, the need for the international community to deliver on COP26 commitments, and the transition to COP27 that will consolidate this.

• Updated: 5 September 2022

The UK government is supporting the Philippine government through the Department of Energy to develop its own version of the 2050 Pathway Calculator.

• Updated: 30 August 2022

UK Government’s Regional Ambassador for Asia/ Pacific, Caribbean and Small Island Developing States, Ken O’Flaherty, will visit Guatemala on 19 August.

• Updated: 18 August 2022

the UK and local partners in Kenya launch a tool that aims to identify energy secure pathways for energy demand and supply between 2015 and 2050.

• Updated: 29 July 2022

Creating intertidal habitats are a step closer as ‘The Moors at Arne’ scheme seeks planning permission from Dorset Council.

• Updated: 29 July 2022

COP President Alok Sharma's keynote at the UN High Level Political Forum on keeping climate on the UN agenda and the 2020s being a critical decade for climate action

• Updated: 14 July 2022

Speech by Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive, Environment Agency

• Updated: 12 July 2022

The British High Commission in Malta (BHC) is currently accepting proposals for innovative projects, with concrete objectives and measurable policy outcomes.

• Updated: 4 July 2022

Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency and interim Chair of the Green Finance Institute | UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment Annual Forum at The Institution of Civil Engineers | 4 July 2022

• Updated: 4 July 2022

COP President Alok Sharma at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Kigali, Rwanda, where the focus of the session was setting the challenge for Commonwealth countries to build a more sustainable and prosperous future

• Updated: 27 June 2022

Cornwall has seen 26 green projects - all aimed at tackling declining biodiversity and restoring its natural environment - delivered since the G7 conference.

• Updated: 27 June 2022

COP26 President Alok Sharma at the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Change, hosted by US President Joe Biden, on the work the UK is doing to urge countries to deliver on commitments made at COP26 in Glasgow

• Updated: 17 June 2022

Embassy collaborates with the International University for Humanities and Development to host an educational screening of Attenborough's “Life on Our Planet”.

• Updated: 13 June 2022

COP26 President Alok Sharma at the Confederation of British Industry's Achieving Net Zero Conference on the vital role business has in achieving net zero by 2050 or earlier

• Updated: 7 June 2022