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Patricia Espinosa (centre, background), UN Climate Change Executive Secretary, briefs the media in Bangkok in September 2018.

In a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency, B&M Elkin & Son Ltd (the Company) of Hall Farm, Hilderstone, Staffordshire pleaded guilty to three charges of breaching environmental regulations following two pollution incidents and failing to provide adequate effluent storage.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister Mark Field and the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change Nick Bridge are attending the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco on 13-14 September 2018. Governments, businesses and civil society have come together to discuss efforts to reduce carbon emissions and to transition to low carbon economies.

Reductions in new outbreaks of bovine TB have been recorded in Gloucestershire and Somerset following the completion of their licensed four-year badger culls, Farming Minister George Eustice has announced.

Incentives to collect marine litter at sea, new EU-wide standards and definitions for biodegradability and compostability, and a complete EU ban on oxo-degradable plastic by 2020 are among the proposals set out in the non-binding draft resolution, adopted on Thursday with 597 votes to 15 and 25 abstentions.

Hurricane Florence, reduced from a category 4 to category 2 storm, is forecast to strike the US east coast on Friday. Super Typhoon Mangkhut, one of the strongest storms of the year, is forecast to hit the north of the Philippines by the weekend before threatening Hong Kong and Macau.

It has been downgraded to a Category 1 storm, but forecasters say Hurricane Florence is still capable of delivering a lethal punch.

“This storm will bring destruction,” said North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper. “Catastrophic effects will be felt.”

The Tinian Women Association, Guardians of Gani’, PåganWatch and the Center for Biological Diversity — represented by Earthjustice — will continue their fight against the U.S. Navy’s plans to stage massive live-fire war games on the islands of Tinian and Pågan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) as part of the relocation of 5,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam.

Foreign Office Minister Mark Field visited the London office of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) for the official handover of 100 forensic fingerprinting kits to fight the illegal wildlife trade, on September 11.

President Donald Trump says protecting lives is his “absolute highest priority” as Hurricane Florence, now a Category 2 storm, sets its 40-kilometers-wide eye on the southeastern U.S. coast.