12 ways to ensure your Christmas won’t cost the earth! Environment Agency – 12 tips ‘As you start to plan your festivities and you purchase your Christmas food and gifts. There are some simple steps we can take to make Christmas more sustainable At this time of year, we generate more waste than any other […]
Corporate leaders group – CBI, TUC, Green Alliance, WWF – writes to Government urging action Climate Change Committee Just published: COP26: Key outcomes and next steps for the UK CCC ‘COP26 concluded with a material increase in ambitions to reduce emissions across the world and the launch of a raft of new initiatives and sector […]
Aligning climate finance for an equitable & sustainable net zero future – COP26 Universities Network Briefing Managing the climate crisis and pensions Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency speaking at the Investment & Pensions Europe Conference & Awards, 2 December 2021 This year, the IPE conference and awards comes hot on the heels […]
CIWEM: ‘ OVERVIEW The purpose of this guide is to assist water companies with best practice for EDM to comply with the conditions within a discharge permit. This guide collates current good practice on Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) of discharges from combined sewer overflows and other permitted storm overflows. Note that this document relates to […]
This post is by Daniel Johns, head of public affairs at Anglian Water The Green Alliance ‘I want to congratulate Philip Dunne MP and the Duke of Wellington, and all their supporters in parliament and far beyond, for making headline news of poor river health, and for securing significant changes to the Environment Act during […]
Catchment Sensitive Farming: reduce water and air pollution Training, advice and grant support for farmers and land managers to reduce water and air pollution from agriculture. Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) is a partnership between the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, the Environment Agency and Natural England. It works with farmers and a range […]
Chalk streams https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2021/11/30/restoring-englands-great-barrier-reef By Charles Rangeley- Wilson, Chair of the Chalk Stream Restoration Group. On 15 October 2021, the Chalk Streams Restoration Group marked a major milestone on the journey to restore England’s chalk streams. The group was formed in 2020 to bring together many partners responsible for or interested in the future of these […]
Environment Agency – Updated 25th November 2021 Water Briefing ‘Environment Agency warns reduced funding is impacting its ability to deal with pollution incidents. The Environment Agency says that its attendance at pollution incidents is reducing as funding to deal with them has been reduced. The EA is warning that more serious pollution incidents are caused […]