Human societies are not resilient to extreme weather, according to a new report released by the Royal Society last week. Human exposure to extreme weather is set to increase with continued changes in global climate and population size, location and age. The Resilience to Extreme Weather report identifies the regions most vulnerable to floods, droughts […]
Running for five weeks, this is the first stage in the Sustainability Appraisal (SA) process, where the South marine plans are independently assessed to understand how they will help deliver sustainable development. The scoping report looks at sustainability issues such as communities, health and wellbeing, marine ecology and cultural heritage. MMO’s Sustainability Manager, Chris Maxwell, […]
CIWEM: ‘Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, The Green Ribbon Political Awards were high profile accolades (and a wooden spoon) awarded to politicians, businesses and NGOs both in the UK and abroad for their environmental achievements. Decided by a high profile panel of judges including the likes of Jonathan Porritt and respected environment journalist […]
CIWEM have commented on the Government Announcements – http://www.ciwem.org/information-and-resources/press–media/news-list/2014/dec/the-autumn-statement-is-already-forgetting-the-floods-of-last-winter.aspx Guardian ‘Treasury plans to spend from £2.3bn budget on improving protection for 300,000 homes over six years More than 1,400 flood defence projects are to receive funding to provide better protection from flooding for hundreds of thousands of homes. The Treasury is detailing projects that will […]
Dramatic climate changes and weather extremes already affecting millions of lives, but solutions exist. World Bank WASHINGTON, November 23, 2014 – ‘ the planet warms further, heat-waves and other weather extremes that today occur once in hundreds of years, if ever, would become the “new climate normal,” creating a world of increased risks and instability. […]
A technology development body launched yesterday by the Scottish government is to offer jobs to some staff at collapsed wave power firm Pelamis. The new body – called Wave Energy Scotland – will aim to bring the best engineering and academic minds together to work on furthering wave technology. Speaking at Holyrood, energy minister Fergus […]
This edition of SUDG newsletter sets out a range of issues and perspectives of current interest to the Group and its members including: The need for guidance on for industry in relation to MCZs A new approach to monitoring on a regional scale by the aggregate industry An initiative by DONG and SSE in the […]
While Ken Collins has gone live with this observation there is at least one multi-author publications in press as well a variety of other observations (including video) from west Wales, the east coast and Dutch coast supporting this observation. Ken Collins ‘It’s one of the big mysteries in my career as a marine biologist. Something […]