19 Oct 2021
Link to press release Link to Environment Agency’s climate adaptation report The climate emergency can only be successfully tackled through greater focus on adapting to the inevitable climate impacts that we are already seeing, the Environment Agency has warned today (13 October) as it urged world leaders to step up to that challenge at COP26. […]
19 Oct 2021
The CaBA Chalk Stream Restoration Group has launched its first Chalk Stream Strategy – which calls for chalk streams in England to be given enhanced environmental status. Why do we need a chalk-stream restoration strategy? Chalk streams are among the most biodiverse of the UK’s rivers. Nearly all the world’s chalk streams are in England and they […]
19 Oct 2021
The UK will need to increase its investment in nature by at least £44bn and by as much as £97bn, by 2032, to meet its own environmental commitments. That is according to a new report commissioned by the Green Finance Institute (GFI) and published today (12 October). Entitled ‘The Finance Gap for UK Nature’, the report lays […]
19 Oct 2021
Climate change poses a major threat to global biodiversity, yet fresh-water fish have been largely overlooked in climate-change assessments. This study presents a comprehensive appraisal of the threat from potential climate extremes, covering both water flow and temperature, to the world’s fresh-water fish. The results highlight a need to intensify national and international commitments to […]
19 Oct 2021
Pharmaceuticals and endocrine disruptors increasingly contaminate the world’s freshwaters. New research provides direct evidence of their transfer from aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems via the consumption of aquatic insects by terrestrial predators such as spiders, birds and bats. This exposure may have negative impacts on the physiology and population dynamics of predators, suggesting a need for […]
19 Oct 2021
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has written to Alok Sharma MP, President for COP26 ahead of the conference on 31 October. The Committee urge the COP26 President to ensure that nature-based solutions, as part of the answer to mitigating and adapting to climate change, are included in the COP26 negotiations, the final […]
19 Oct 2021
The UN Biodiversity conference held last week concluded and issued a declaration under the theme “Ecological Civilization: Building a shared future for all life on Earth”. Click here Is “ecological civilization” just another slogan and what might it mean in practice? Click here Whilst recognising that some progress has been made in the last decade […]
19 Oct 2021
An inquiry by the House of Lords International Relations & Defence Committee. The inquiry will consider the extent to which the UNCLOS it is fit for purpose in 2021. It will examine the enforcement of UNCLOS, its dispute resolution mechanisms, and the extent to which is has proved able to adapt to new and emerging […]
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