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Friday 23 July marks 100 days until The UK hosts the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow. Ahead of the occasion, the G20 Environment Ministers met as part of a G20 Leaders Summit in Napoli, Italy.

In June this year, Coventry got its first Walk Talk Walk global organisation called Run Talk Run, which was founded by Jess Robson in London in December 2017. The idea was to make movement and wellbeing support less intimidating and more accessible in the communities. The walks take place every Thursday evening at 18:30, starting from the Warwick Sports and Wellness Hub. The routes are planned around the campus area and are usually 3 to 5k long, taking about an hour to complete.

See research from Christine Ennew, Provost at the University of Warwick suggest why Government, academia and industry must pull together to combat the climate crisis effectively.

The Estates team are required undertake regular tree surveys across campus to check the individual health of trees and the impact of each tree on the biodiversity around them; these tree surveys may, at times, may require us to prune or fell trees if they are deemed to be high risk, diseased or unsafe. We wanted to ensure you knew that, within our current tree management arrangements, our policy is that for every one tree felled we will replace with either 5m hedgerow or two new trees on campus.

The University of Warwick's Wellesbourne Campus has become a partner in the Arden Farm Wildlife Network Tree Sparrow Project. We have installed nest boxes for tree sparrows and barn owls, and have sown a wild bird seed mix and pollen and nectar flowers.