17 Oct 2023
RWE has launched its first global “Floating Wind Co- use Competition”. The company is looking for solutions to promote co-existence with other sea users and biodiversity enhancement. Making the difference in two domains: Biodiversity and co-existence with other sea users RWE invites start-ups, scale-ups, research institutes as well as other individuals and organisations to propose […]
17 Oct 2023
The European Marine Board launches publications on coastal resilience and blue carbon: Building Coastal Resilience in Europe: European coasts face multiple, interacting and cumulative pressures including those resulting from increasing greenhouse gas emissions (e.g. sea-level rise, Ocean warming, Ocean acidification, extreme events) and localised activities such as fishing, aquaculture, waste disposal and coastal urbanisation. These […]
17 Oct 2023
Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm is now fully operational and generating clean, renewable energy to Britain’s power grid, SSE Renewables and its partner TotalEnergies have announced. Seagreen, located 27km off the Angus coast in the North Sea’s Firth of Forth, is now Scotland’s largest wind farm as well as the world’s deepest fixed-bottom offshore wind […]
10 Oct 2023
Scotland’s National Marine Plan (NMP) was published in 2015 and following statutory reviews on the current plan, last year Scottish Ministers committed to update and replace the NMP (NMP2). The Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 requires that a sustainability appraisal is undertaken to assess the impact of the proposed policies within the National Marine […]
10 Oct 2023
The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) has installed two flux systems in the Ribble Estuary with others to follow at Essex Marshes and The Wash in East Anglia over the coming months. The flux towers will measure how much carbon dioxide gas is captured from the atmosphere and stored as carbon within the […]
10 Oct 2023
A new report by RenewableUK shows that the total pipeline of floating offshore wind projects has grown significantly in the last 12 months in terms of capacity from 185 gigawatts a year ago to 244GW now – a 32% increase. The number of projects has increased globally during that time from 230 to 285. The […]
10 Oct 2023
The Crown Estate for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, has awarded an Agreement for Lease to BP for what it said could become one of the world’s largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. The agreement will allow BP to further progress its planned ‘Endurance’ CCS project, a reservoir in the rock deep below the […]
10 Oct 2023
From Marine Stewardship Council: The State of the Water Report for the UK and Ireland is the first of its kind and provides a detailed analysis of the positive effect that MSC certification is having on the fisheries that have chosen to be assessed against the MSC Fisheries Standard. The report utilises data collected from MSC audits […]
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