07 Sep 2016
The Guardian reports a letter from 36 MPs that urges Theresa May to redirect billions of pounds of post-Brexit subsidies towards environmental and public services. Dozens of Conservative MPs have written to the Prime Minister, Theresa May, urging her to shift billions of pounds of post-Brexit farm subsidies towards protecting and improving the environment. The […]
07 Sep 2016
World Water Week closed on Friday, concluding that water must be recognized as the enabler of successful implementation of the entire 2030 Agenda as well as the Paris Climate Agreement. “Water – the lifeline of our planet – will be needed to achieve nearly every Sustainable Development Goal, and to face the challenges that climate […]
05 Sep 2016
BusinessGreen ‘To understand the significance of today’s news that the US and China have ratified the Paris Agreement it is important to cast your mind back 12 months to the build up to the UN’s New York Climate Summit, which was intended to inject some much needed impetus into negotiations ahead of the Paris talks. […]
05 Sep 2016
Defra ‘Government announces plans to ban microbeads in cosmetics and personal care products. Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom has today announced plans to ban the sale and manufacture of cosmetics and personal care products containing tiny pieces of plastic, commonly known as ‘microbeads’. Each year billions of tiny beads end up in our seas from a […]
05 Sep 2016
Two articles: World first for Shetlands in tidal power breakthrough Nova Innovation Ltd is a tidal energy company who design, build, install, commission and operate tidal energy projects. Founded in 2010, in 2014 we installed the world’s first community-owned tidal device. In 2016 we generated power from the world’s first offshore tidal array. We have achieved […]
05 Sep 2016
Outgoing Presidents seem to like declaring MPAs – this one is in time for the IUCN World Congress. Openchannels: ‘On 26 August, US President Barack Obama expanded the boundaries of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands from its previous size of 362,000 km2 — already one of the largest MPAs in the […]
05 Sep 2016
The second issue of the Sea Change project newsletter is now available to download HERE. Sea Change is a three-year EU Horizon 2020 funded project that aims to establish a fundamental “Sea Change” in the way European citizens view their relationship with the ocean. Sea Change will create a deeper understanding of how the health […]
31 Aug 2016
Guardian – Natural England: England’s best-loved wildlife still in serious decline, report shows. ‘Government countryside assessment paints a ‘grim picture’ with key species such as hedgehogs, dormice, birds and butterflies all continuing to decrease in number Much of England’s best-loved wildlife remains in serious decline, according to the latest official assessment from the government. Birds […]
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