08 Dec 2020
Business Green: Cecilia Keating ‘Offshore Wind Evidence and Change Programme will run for five years and explore how the seabed can best be protected as the UK’s offshore wind boom continues. The government and Crown Estate have announced they are to work together to protect the marine environment as offshore wind project construction booms in […]
08 Dec 2020
New sites to offer protection for iconic species. Minke whale, basking sharks and Risso’s dolphins will be among a wide range of biodiversity and geological features to be safeguarded following the designation of four new Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). A further 12 sites have been given Special Protection Area status, providing additional protection to Scotland’s […]
08 Dec 2020
Thanks to Natasha Bradshaw for passing this on. EU: Maritime Spatial Planning has a clear objective. The objective of ensuring that the largest number of stakeholders depending on the maritime space are allowed to perform their activities in a fair, sustainable, and collaborative way. It ensures the coexistence between human activities and the protection of […]
08 Dec 2020
The Ocean Conservation Trust (OCT) has formed an Ocean Literacy Working Group with grateful support from Defra (Department For Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). The group brings together experts from across the UK to understand how Ocean Literacy could be used to support Ocean Climate policy in the future. The working group will support Defra, acting as […]
01 Dec 2020
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 […]
01 Dec 2020
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 […]
01 Dec 2020
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 […]
01 Dec 2020
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 […]
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