06 Mar 2024
Ofwat recently published two reports highlighting the role that water companies can play in helping to deliver water efficiency savings. The first looks at water efficiency incentives for developers. Ofwat is proposing requiring all water companies in England and Wales to offer a financial water efficiency incentive to developers in PR24 that go beyond the […]
06 Mar 2024
The Drinking Water Inspectorate has published new research on dual pipe recycling systems to understand the associated risks and to assess the suitability of English and Welsh regulations to manage the risks from evolving systems. The research project found that many large-scale dual pipe systems in the UK have either been mothballed or have never […]
06 Mar 2024
Action and investment are needed to reduce the risk of flood and drought and protect water supplies from the impacts of climate change across Scotland. A new plan published by Scottish Water outlines the efforts it will take to make services and infrastructure more resilient to extreme weather. Over the past decade, the public utility […]
05 Mar 2024
Defra’s Marine Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (mNCEA) programme is currently undertaking a structured review of social and cultural values of UK marine and coastal ecosystems. Ecologos Research are undertaking the review, in collaboration with Plymouth Marine Laboratory. They are asking the marine and coastal social science and arts and humanities community to submit links to relevant studies and […]
05 Mar 2024
A new report from RenewableUK shows that the Government has an opportunity to secure a record number of new offshore wind farms, and record amount of new capacity, in this year’s summer’s auction for contracts to generate clean power (Contracts for Difference). Renewable UK says that ‘in a huge boost to the UK’s energy security, […]
05 Mar 2024
The latest World Trade Organisation (WTO) conference concluded after a week of negotiations between its 166 members in the United Arab Emirates with no major agreement on harmful fisheries subsidies. Many hoped the negotiations at the 13th Ministerial Conference would build on the momentum from the 12th conference in 2022, where agreement was made on […]
05 Mar 2024
The Scottish marine and coastal restoration funding initiative Scottish Marine Environmental Enhancement Fund (SMEEF) is to receive more than £2m of additional funding to protect and restore Scottish seagrass meadows. The donation comes from a new partnership between SMEEF and Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Distribution and is believed to be the largest-ever single […]
05 Mar 2024
Researchers from the University of Exeter and Natural Capital Solutions have recently discovered one of the biggest areas containing a rare type of seaweed only found in UK waters. Whilst conducting surveys off the coast of Falmouth and Penzance on behalf of Cornwall Council, researchers found an area almost as large as 900 rugby pitches […]
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