The renewable power industry has warned that it needs £500m from the government over the next two years if it is to help ministers meet energy and climate change targets. More than half of the cash is for offshore wind power generation, while another part is required if wind and tidal power is to move from experimental to commercial application, the industry said in a budget submission out tomorrow.

Barbara Stocking, the first female director of Oxfam, is on a mission to persuade business to assist in the charity’s goal of improving the lives of the poor. “People want to see me for one of two reasons: they fear what Oxfam might do to them if they don’t [or], in the best case, they realise we have mutual interests on development and poverty and can really work together,” she says.

Climate scientists have delivered a powerful riposte to their sceptical critics with a study that strengthens the case for saying global warming is largely the result of man-made emissions of greenhouse gases. Read the editorial from page 40.

Are your colleagues staying late, eating at their desk, and seeing little of their friends and families? Is job satisfaction at an all-time low because people are having to do more with less? If so, your organisation could be in trouble when the economic recovery starts, and the finger of blame could well point at HR.

Britain's rarest butterfly, the Duke of Burgundy, is teetering on the brink of extinction after suffering its worst summer since records began.

The government has underestimated by six times the number of businesses to be covered by new greenhouse gas emissions legislation, which will take effect in just over three weeks.

The European Union is drawing up plans for its first direct tax with a "green" levy on petrol, coal and natural gas that could cost British consumers up to £3 billion.

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