In this episode: will our insects still be here in 100 years? We'll be discussing the threat of global insect collapse, the launch of the Green New Deal and the environmental implications of Brexit.

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Brexit

Insect Armageddon

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The highlights from our recent event marking one year on from the Chinese ban on 'foreign garbage'. Hear voices from across the recycling and waste sector, including Defra, Suez and Friends of the Earth, as we seek to move the debate on plastics forward. Which countries has the ban most effected, what is the UK doing to tackle the problem and why is it so important to take our waste seriously?

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Chaired by our resources expert, Libby Peake.

See photos from the event.

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This event launched our new report, By popular demand: what people want from a resource efficient economy, in conjunction with CIEMAP.

Joined by a panel of experts from industry, academia and the NGO community, we explored which resource efficiency policies people currently like and which they don’t – and why – and what this means for the government, policy makers and businesses.

See photos from the event.

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This event discussed how the UK could continue to act collaboratively with the EU to raise ambition and achievement in international climate diplomacy, after Brexit.

We explored how Norway and Switzerland work alongside the EU to raise global climate action and what a future UK-EU climate partnership, formal or otherwise, could mean for collaborative climate and energy policy across Europe.

See photos from the event here and an event summary

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CAP reform, the 25 year environment plan and Brexit will all combine to reshape future UK farming and land use, but the necessary contribution of land use to meeting more stringent carbon targets, and possibly even reaching a net zero emissions economy, has not yet been acknowledged by politicians.

This debate discusses the tensions between meeting these challenges and the different visions for the future of rural communities and landscapes.

Panellists:

Chaired by Roger Harrabin, BBC environment and energy analyst.

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The best bits from the second of three live debates exploring the controversial questions about the future of land, the environment and food.

In this episode: What are the implications of giving up control of food standards to trading partners like the US? Will sourcing more food from abroad make our food system more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change? Should the government be trying to link up policy on environmental health and nutrition?

Chaired by Charlotte Smith, presenter of Farming Today on BBC Radio 4.

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Newsnight's Evan Davis chairs the Green Alliance 2018 annual debate, with a keynote speech by Laurence Tubiana, CEO of the European Climate Foundation. Laurence played a central role in reaching the 2015 Paris climate agreement as France’s climate change ambassador.

Speakers

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The best bits from the first of three live debates exploring the controversial questions about the future of land, the environment and food.

In this episode: Is technology a force for good in environmentally sustainable food production? Or could it do more harm than good? And what are the wider social and ethical implications?

Panel:

Chaired by Christine Tacon, the UK's groceries code adjudicator and former managing director of Co-operative Farms.

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