The Fisheries Bill receives Royal Assent after 10 months in Parliament. The UK’s first major domestic fisheries legislation in nearly 40 years passed into law. The Fisheries Act 2020 gives the UK full control of its fishing waters for the first time since 1973. The Fisheries Act will enable the UK to control who fishes […]
Thanks to Jason Hall Spencer Evolving the narrative for protecting a rapidly changing ocean, post COVID-19 – Major collaborative paper and resources that look at the challenges and actions we need to restore the oceans (continue) Abstract The ocean is the linchpin supporting life on Earth but is in declining health, due to an increasing […]
The sheer scales in the growth of plastic usage is staggering. See this figure from CIEL, but simply Google Plastics growth images to get any number of graphs. We can see the polluting effects of plastics well enough now on every environment and innumerable species. Lots of this plastic is also going to get incinerated […]
Guardian ‘Governments have rejected calls for tougher regulation of international shipping, settling instead for new rules on reducing greenhouse gas emissions that campaigners say will imperil the Paris climate goals. The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the UN body that regulates international shipping, agreed on Friday after a week-long online meeting to make an existing target […]