The government has published its Net Zero Strategy, along with the much-delayed Heat and Buildings Strategy. This Net Zero strategy builds on last year’s 10 point plan for a green industrial revolution, and is designed to keep us on track for UK carbon budgets, our 2030 Nationally Determined Contribution, and net zero by 2050. It includes: […]
Link to press release Link to Environment Agency’s climate adaptation report The climate emergency can only be successfully tackled through greater focus on adapting to the inevitable climate impacts that we are already seeing, the Environment Agency has warned today (13 October) as it urged world leaders to step up to that challenge at COP26. […]
The CaBA Chalk Stream Restoration Group has launched its first Chalk Stream Strategy – which calls for chalk streams in England to be given enhanced environmental status. Why do we need a chalk-stream restoration strategy? Chalk streams are among the most biodiverse of the UK’s rivers. Nearly all the world’s chalk streams are in England and they […]
The UK will need to increase its investment in nature by at least £44bn and by as much as £97bn, by 2032, to meet its own environmental commitments. That is according to a new report commissioned by the Green Finance Institute (GFI) and published today (12 October). Entitled ‘The Finance Gap for UK Nature’, the report lays […]