25 Jan 2022
2022: The Year of Climate Adaptation Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency speech to the Coastal Futures conference “Thank you for inviting me to speak at this year’s Coastal Futures conference. In 1953, 307 lives were lost on land and more than 177 people were lost at sea in the east coast surge. […]
25 Jan 2022
Business Green: Chatham House speech by Alok Sharma since UN Climate Conference will see Minister call on countries to set aside geopolitical tensions to tackle climate goals. COP26 President Alok Sharma has this morning urged countries to deliver on the promises they made at the COP26 Climate Summit, warning the commitments set out in the […]
25 Jan 2022
Compare & Contrast: ‘No Fish’ business collapses with this shocking report of Bass dumping. Jerry Percy made it crystal clear that the ‘no fish’ scenario is putting UK fishers out of business at the Coastal Futures conference – see his speaker note below. Then look at this link to bass dumping in the channel Is […]
25 Jan 2022
MMO grants marine licence to marine development project following collaboration and joint working. MMO ‘Last month the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) granted a marine licence to Associated British Ports (ABP) for the development of the Lowestoft Eastern Energy Facility (LEEF). This followed a period of collaboration and joint working, beginning in November 2020, when ABP […]
19 Jan 2022
From waterbriefing Five regional water resource groups have published their Emerging Regional Water Resource Plans, setting out how they propose to address a predicted water deficit for England of 3,435 million litres per day (Ml/d) megalitres by 2050. The estimate is set out in the national framework for water resources paper Understanding England’s future water needs […]
19 Jan 2022
This report outlines the UK government and devolved administrations’ position on the key climate change risks and opportunities that the UK faces today. As required by the Climate Change Act 2008, the UK government has undertaken the third five-year assessment of the risks of climate change on the UK. This is based on the Independent Assessment […]
19 Jan 2022
Last week’s report from the Environmental Audit Committee was picked up by numerous sources, including the BBC and the Guardian. BBC leads on ‘’Chemical cocktail’ polluting English rivers’ Read more The Guardian Water companies in England should each designate a stretch of river as bathing water by 2025 to drive the clean-up of a chemical cocktail of […]
19 Jan 2022
Interview with Emma Howard Boyd in the ever-exciting Civil Service World. Breaking records and battling for better water quality – Environment Agency’s Emma Howard Boyd reflects on 2021 2020 may have been a year like no other, but 2021 was a chip off the old block and relentless from day one. The EA chair tells […]
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