05 Jan 2022
The government has announced that new homes and buildings in England will have to produce significantly less CO2 under new rules to help the country move towards net zero. Under the new regulations, CO2 emissions from new build homes must be around 30% lower than current standards and emissions from other new buildings, including offices […]
05 Jan 2022
Report from Defra and Drinking Water Inspectorate on the quality of all individual supplies of drinking water that exceed 1,000 cubic meters a day or serve more than 5,000 people in England. This report is published every 3 years and demonstrates the high quality of drinking water in England. Around 99% of the population receive […]
05 Jan 2022
As part of growing efforts to deliver greater water savings to business water users Thames Water has just shared a great open access online water benchmarking tool. The tool has been designed to provide a water use benchmark for hotels, hospitality, leisure, offices, retail, schools and university halls. Users input some basic details of their […]
05 Jan 2022
“Our Rivers Our City” is a comprehensive re-assessment and appraisal of Manchester’s three main river valleys. This ten-year plan has been developed collaboratively, including work by Groundwork Trust to engage, involve, inform and survey those interested in the City’s River Valleys. Read more here and download the strategy.
05 Jan 2022
On Friday 31 December 2021, a 12ft long native crayfish sculpture commissioned by Northumberland Rivers Trust was unveiled at Northumberland Zoo to celebrate the start of its captive breeding programme. The programme aims to breed and release the native species into Northumberland’s rivers and lakes. It builds on work to boost native numbers and prevent […]
04 Jan 2022
Alok Sharma, Climate summit president, makes clear UK net zero agenda is responsibility of all government colleagues Tackling the climate crisis must be a whole government effort or risk the Cop26 climate summit becoming “just a bunch of meaningless promises”, the cabinet minister who chaired the UN summit has said. Alok Sharma, who acted as president for […]
04 Jan 2022
Thanks to Pamela Buchan for forwarding this. Ask your Council to declare an urgent need for Ocean Recovery ‘Ocean Conservation Trust ‘COP26 has had a raft of Ocean-themed events, showing that the tide is turning on Ocean neglect. With 2021 being the start of the UN Ocean Decade, we want to support local and national […]
04 Jan 2022
£75 million boost to modernise UK fishing industry and level up coastal communities Defra ‘Fishing communities across the UK will benefit from better infrastructure, strengthened supply chains, new jobs and an investment in skills thanks to a £75 million boost for the sector announced by UK Government. The Infrastructure and Skills and training schemes are […]
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