Small businesses with big ideas on how to tackle climate change are being urged to compete for awards of up to £40,000, as the Shell Springboard programme opens for its fourth year. James Smith, chairman of Shell UK, said: "SMEs are a vibrant and creative sector of the economy, so they're ideally placed to be climate change entrepreneurs."

The deadline for entries is 7 November. Full details at http://www.shellspringboard.org/.