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11 Jan 2022

NewsWater

From Defra The document sets out our environment and climate ambitions for the 3 new, complementary environmental land management schemes: the Sustainable Farming Incentive, Local Nature Recovery and Landscape Recovery. It covers intended outcomes, including: bringing soil under sustainable management reducing agricultural emissions woodland creation halting the decline in species reducing the main agricultural pollutants […]

11 Jan 2022

NewsWater

From BBC News The past seven years have been the hottest on record, according to new data from the EU’s satellite system. The Copernicus Climate Change Service said 2021 was the fifth-warmest year, with record-breaking heat in some regions. And the amount of warming gases in our atmosphere continued to increase. Governments are committed to […]

11 Jan 2022

NewsWater

Have your say on CCW’s strategy for 2022 Today we’re launching a consultation on our draft strategy for 2022-23, and would like to invite you to have your say on our plans. To date, many of you have already contributed to the development of our plans and we thank you for your valuable input. Our draft […]

11 Jan 2022

NewsWater

Bright Blue, the ‘independent’ think tank (open to liberal conservatives everywhere) has published In Deep Water? Mapping the impacts of flooding in the UK since 2007 Also covered in The Guardian From the research The COVID-19 pandemic has, sadly, shown that government planning for national emergencies and crises can fail to imagine the full range […]

11 Jan 2022

NewsWater

In advance of the World Water Tech Summit in London next month, water utilities share their industry predictions and offer a glimpse of their innovation objectives. Not surprisingly, there is a focus on net zero and climate change mitigation and adaptation, but also water reuse, digitalization and potentially the largest investment programme since privatization. Read […]

10 Jan 2022

MarineNews

It has long been known that global warming is causing not only longer and more intense heatwaves, but also, depending on the region, more severe droughts, rains and storms. Moreover, these kinds of extreme weather events increasingly occur in combination, compounding each other. However, there has been little research into how extreme events develop in […]

10 Jan 2022

MarineNews

Section 61 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (MCAA) sets a legal requirement on the Marine Management Organisation to monitor and report on the marine plans and the progress towards the effects of policies and the effectiveness of policies in securing objectives set out in the marine plan every three-years. Monitoring surveys are one […]