12 Apr 2022
The Pew Charitable Trusts recently hosted a webinar that brought together experts from two organizations in the USA focused on collecting blue carbon data and making it readily available. To read more Click here The discussion with representatives of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and the Pacific Northwest Blue Carbon Working Group (PNW Blue […]
12 Apr 2022
An article in Yachting Monthly on the question of whether sailors should welcome or be worried by the expanding network of Marine Protected Area. The piece gives some of the background to MPAs in the UK and how this has evolved into the current suite of 127 Marine Conservation Zones. Richard Hill, the Royal Yachting […]
12 Apr 2022
An investigative report by Lighthouse estimates that 3,000 vessels discharge mineral oil into European waters annually – the equivalent to eight spills per day, each the size of 750 football fields. The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has spent millions of euros creating an elaborate system, CleanSeaNet, that aims to monitor and prevent bilge dumping […]
07 Apr 2022
According to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, in 2010-2019 average annual global greenhouse gas emissions were at their highest levels in human history. it says immediate and deep emissions cuts are needed to keep global warming to 1.5°C. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called the latest IPCC report “a litany of […]
07 Apr 2022
From Reuters Negotiations on an ambitious global biodiversity deal to halt or reverse nature loss closed in Switzerland on Tuesday (29 March), with countries agreeing to little more than further talks in June. The Geneva meeting of around 1,000 negotiators from 164 countries was meant to be the last before the postponed U.N. Convention on […]
07 Apr 2022
The government has announced details of how the Sustainable Farming Incentive will support farming to deliver nature-based solutions. Farmers will be paid to provide public goods, such as: improved water quality biodiversity climate change mitigation animal health and welfare In 2022, SFI aims to: encourage actions that improve soil health recognise how moorland provides benefits […]
07 Apr 2022
Main changes to existing approach: 1. A new annual £4 million competition for early-stage ideas direct to innovators. We propose to allocate a portion of funding (about £4 million a year) to a new competition focused on enabling and supporting earlier stage idea development. This new competition will target primarily innovators and not require a […]
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