18 May 2021
This project explored an innovative, systems-based approach to water management. This should help organisations involved in water planning and management understand how different parts of the water system interact and develop ways of managing the water environment as a whole. This will help to bring about multiple benefits while avoiding undesired outcomes. Read more and […]
18 May 2021
The Environmental Audit Committee will hold an evidence session on 26th May from 2.30. those appearing include Alastair Chisholm, Director of Policy at Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management Bronwyn Buntine, Sustainable Drainage Team Leader at Kent Council Ian Titherington, Lead drainage officer at Cardiff Council Dr Gabriela Dotro, Senior Research Fellow in Environmental […]
11 May 2021
The Environment Agency has reviewed the evidence behind 17 different carbon offsetting approaches which included mainly nature-based solutions and a smaller number of built environment approaches: Woodland creation Upland peat restoration Biochar Hedges and trees outside of woodlands Household insulation Household low carbon heating Soils management: pasture Soils management: arable Enhanced weathering Lowland peat restoration […]
11 May 2021
New Environment Bill provisions to tackle storm overflows – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) The Environment Bill will include new legal duties to tackle sewage discharges into rivers and help protect our waterways. Three new measures on storm overflows, announced last month by Defra, will be added by government amendment to the Environment Bill later this year. The Bill […]
11 May 2021
From Wildlife and Countryside Link Evidence of the harms caused by lead ammunition continues to grow – high mortality amongst waterbirds, weakened immunity for other species, cognitive impairment for children; all can be traced back to lead entering the food chain from the use of lead shot. With a five-year voluntary phase out from the shooting […]
11 May 2021
Article by Alastair Chisholm, Director of Policy As tactics go, talking our way to keeping global heating within 1.5oC of pre-industrial levels isn’t one we should be betting our (overheating, increasingly flood-prone) houses on. Yet that’s what we’re effectively doing in the run-up to COP26, Climate Change Committee (CCC) Chief Executive Chris Stark told an […]
11 May 2021
From the Guardian Plans to build an energy-hungry desalination plant in the New Forest national park to provide drinking water for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight have been condemned by campaigners including the broadcaster Chris Packham. Southern Water’s proposal for a £600m plant at Fawley to convert saltwater from the Solent into tap water during droughts […]
11 May 2021
From the European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform (ESPP) A review of around 100 scientific publications concludes that eutrophication significantly increases greenhouse gas emissions from freshwaters (CO2, methane, N2O). An increase of 5 µg/l of chlorophyll-a in lakes and reservoirs worldwide would result in an increase of GHG emissions equivalent to >6% of fossil fuel CO2. The […]
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