Last week’s report from the Environmental Audit Committee was picked up by numerous sources, including the BBC and the Guardian. BBC leads on ‘’Chemical cocktail’ polluting English rivers’ Read more The Guardian Water companies in England should each designate a stretch of river as bathing water by 2025 to drive the clean-up of a chemical cocktail of […]
Interview with Emma Howard Boyd in the ever-exciting Civil Service World. Breaking records and battling for better water quality – Environment Agency’s Emma Howard Boyd reflects on 2021 2020 may have been a year like no other, but 2021 was a chip off the old block and relentless from day one. The EA chair tells […]
Source edie Prices for carbon offsetting could reach highs of up to $120 per tonne by 2050, up from between $2 and $3 in 2021, BloombergNEF (BNEF) is forecasting. The research provider has this week published its first-ever Long-Term Carbon Offset Outlook, a report it will produce annually to track trends in the global carbon offsetting […]
TRANSFORMING SCOTLAND’S WATERS The ecological condition of Scotland’s water environment will be further protected and improved for future generations through a comprehensive new action plan, backed by enhanced resources and a multi-million pound package of investment. The River Basin Management Plans, developed and delivered collaboratively, set out a range of priority measures, including working with land managers to reduce diffuse pollution […]
1,000 risk experts and global leaders in business, government and civil society contributed to the report which found climate action failure, extreme weather events, and biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse to be the top three global risks by severity over the next 10 years. Access the report here.
From the Guardian England’s Environment Agency has told its staff to “shut down” and ignore reports of low-impact pollution events because it does not have enough money to investigate them, according to a leaked internal report. The ruling on so-called category 3 and 4 incidents means that events such as farm pollution or hazardous dumps by business […]
From Ofwat This paper sets out expectations in three key areas to guide water company planning on net zero. It details our expectations for action in relation to net zero target setting; scope of action on net zero; and prioritising the reduction of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. In particular, this paper explains why we consider […]
From Defra The document sets out our environment and climate ambitions for the 3 new, complementary environmental land management schemes: the Sustainable Farming Incentive, Local Nature Recovery and Landscape Recovery. It covers intended outcomes, including: bringing soil under sustainable management reducing agricultural emissions woodland creation halting the decline in species reducing the main agricultural pollutants […]