The Wildlife Trusts unveil new nature recovery projects – restoring peatlands, saltmarsh, kelp forests, chalk grassland, wetlands and woods – to store carbon. Today (8 July), a raft of new projects designed to help the UK tackle the climate and nature emergency is announced by The Wildlife Trusts. They focus on employing nature-based solutions to […]
From Ofwat In December 2020 we published a discussion paper on public value to which we received a number of helpful responses. This paper sets out the key themes from the responses. We provide our reflections on the points made and how we might build on this to support the delivery of further social and […]
From the Guardian The UK’s climate targets will cost the government less over the next 30 years than the price of battling the Covid-19 pandemic if it acts quickly, according to the UK’s fiscal watchdog. Forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) show that ending the UK’s contribution to the global climate crisis would […]
The Paper, From Nature-based solutions to the nature-based economy, is a synthesis of an EC Expert Publication being prepared by the Nature-Based Economy Working Group of Task Force III of the European Commission. A consultation on the white paper is now open. The responses received will form the basis for an EC Expert Publication on the Nature-Based Economy […]
Covered in the Guardian Human activity such as greenhouse gas emissions and land use change were a key factor in extreme precipitation events such as flooding and landslides around the world, a study has found. In recent years, there have been numerous instances of flooding and landslides: extreme precipitation, an amount of rainfall or snowfall […]
Bristol Water will monitor all 15 of their dams from space with HR Wallingford’s pioneering DAMSAT system, the first commercially available technology of its kind. The move demonstrates its continued commitment to protecting downstream communities and will help the water company comply with the recommendations in the Balmforth review, published recently in the wake of […]
Plans to help households across England use water more efficiently, part of an ambitious agenda to build back greener from the pandemic, have been announced by the Environment Secretary. The proposals – announced in response to a public consultation on personal water usage – will balance the growing demand on national supplies with the ambitions in the our […]
New report sets out the results of the Environment Agency’s determination of areas of water stress that took place in 2021. Additional company areas as a result of the 2021 determination: Cambridge Water Portsmouth Water South Staffordshire Water Severn Trent Water – excluding Chester zone Veolia Water Wessex Water South West Water – Bournemouth South […]