02 Oct 2024
The Scottish Government has published the Climate change: Scottish National Adaptation Plan 2024-2029 The plan sets out a comprehensive suite of more than 200 actions and proposals for managing the current and future impacts of climate change in Scotland. Climate change means Scotland will experience more extreme weather. Flooding, water scarcity and hot weather can […]
02 Oct 2024
Around 70 crayfish from the internationally important River Wansbeck population – one of the last remaining strongholds of the species – have been found dead. Testing has already ruled out the listed disease white spot syndrome virus as well as crayfish plague, and water quality testing has ruled out pollution. Further testing is being carried […]
25 Sep 2024
The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has published a new report calling for the Government to set clear standards of resilience that infrastructure operators must maintain in the face of sudden shocks. The NIC says that climate change and related weather extremes, alongside a heightened reliance on digital technologies, mean that the UK faces increased risks […]
25 Sep 2024
In his first major foreign policy speech, Foreign Secretary David Lammy has made clear that action on climate is action on our security, our prosperity and our future. At the Kew Lecture, Lammy talked about “resetting Britain’s approach to climate and nature”, setting out three priorities Building a Global Clean Power Alliance Unlocking more climate […]
25 Sep 2024
The government has accepted that not enough progress has been made in improving the water environment in England. The admission came in response to the Office for Environmental Protection’s (OEP) report on the implementation of the Water Framework Directive regulations and River Basin Management Planning. Defra’s response recognises that “The government agrees that there has […]
25 Sep 2024
The Planning Inspectorate has published guidance on how Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) will need to take the requirements of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) into account. It said when reporting and on an NSIP application, the examining authority will need to consider the potential effects of any proposed development on: The environmental objectives and […]
25 Sep 2024
George Monbiot, writing in The Guardian, says more floods are coming to Britain, and that the network of public bodies supposed to safeguard us are bastions of self-interest. Labour’s first stage of government resembles a vast forensic excavation. As it works through the Conservatives’ midden of horrors, it discovers an ever greater legacy of underinvestment, […]
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