07 Jan 2020
The EU Water Innovation Conference 2019 concluded last week in Zaragoza, the capital of the Spanish Aragon region, bringing together over 700 professionals. Water Europe set out its highlights from the event here. According to Water Europe, “the conference succeeded in raising awareness of the need and urgency to improve water management, in taking stock […]
07 Jan 2020
The excellent Valuing Nature Programme “aims to better understand and represent the complexities of the natural environment in valuation analyses and decision making. It will consider the economic, societal and cultural value of ecosystem services”. Latest outputs include New reports from the Demystifying series. These bring together experts to explain key concepts and agree on principles […]
05 Jan 2020
Posted on 30 December, 2019 by Green Alliance blog This post is by Tony Juniper CBE, chair of Natural England and Emma Howard Boyd, chair of the Environment Agency. As we start the New Year, it’s clear that 2020 is our last chance to bring the world together to take decisive action on climate change, to protect our […]
05 Jan 2020
The Fisheries Bill is mentioned in the December Queen’s Speech page 19 as is the Environment Bill NFFO comment on the The Year Ahead – the negotiation North Sea Cod UK Government text & NFFO commentary: North Sea Cod Bass angling perspective – bag limit increase to 2 – Save our Sea bass Guardian commentary […]
05 Jan 2020
The latest edition of the MMO’s Marine Planning News is packed full of information for the entire England Coast; I have just focused below on a section on the Evidence reports recently published The Marine Management Organisation has recently published a number of evidence projects that support the work of marine planning and is currently […]
05 Jan 2020
Offshore wind energy: draft sectoral marine plan The Plan aims to identify the most sustainable plan options for the future development of commercial-scale offshore wind energy in Scotland. Scottish Government ‘The Plan aims to identify the most sustainable plan options for the future development of commercial-scale offshore wind energy in Scotland, including deep water wind […]
05 Jan 2020
UK Chamber of Shipping ‘In an unprecedented move, the international shipping community has today announced plans to create the first collaborative shipping R&D fund, intended to eliminate CO2 emissions from international shipping. The proposal includes core funding from shipping companies across the world of about $5 billion over a 10-year period Welcoming the news, UK Chamber […]
05 Jan 2020
It is now being recognised that feeding grazing animals seaweeds can substantially reduce their methane emissions. An example reported by the BBC of a flock of sheep on Orkney that only eat seaweed is now being in used by scientists to better understand the physiology and processes at work. Click here to read more. This […]
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