02 Apr 2019
Climate change could make insurance too expensive! Insurers are warning that their products could become unaffordable for ordinary people, as the world’s biggest reinsurance firm puts the blame for the £18bn bill it faces from the California wildfires firmly on global warming. Munich Re’s chief climatologist (yes, they do employ one of them) told the […]
02 Apr 2019
What is Natural Capital and what are Ecosystem Services and why do we need to protect them? Three new animations, funded by the Interreg North Sea Region WaterCoG project, have been created by The Rivers Trust to visually introduce natural capital and ecosystem services in three films. The first introduces the subjects, the second provides context […]
01 Apr 2019
Bob Earll ‘The Guardian has run an article on impact of the French bass fishery on bycatch of dolphins and strandings on French beaches. The strandings network run by Cornwall Wildlife Trust have also registered increased dolphin strandings over the last few years. I covered this a few weeks ago when Sea Shepherd released images […]
01 Apr 2019
Public Accounts Committee report calls on government to get a better handle on future fossil fuel infrastructure decommissioning costs The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of MPs has today published a new report warning there is “significant uncertainty over costs to taxpayers of decommissioning offshore oil and gas assets”, as well as a “poor understanding” within government […]
01 Apr 2019
This report comprehensively examines a wide range o marine geoengineering techniques to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or boost the reflection of incoming solar radiation to space (albedo modification) or in some cases both. Further, the report recommends a) that a coordinated framework for proposing marine geoengineering activities, submitting supporting evidence and integrating independent […]
01 Apr 2019
‘The race for vast remote ‘marine protected areas’ may be a diversion’ Following the UK Government’s announcement of the huge Ascension island No Take Zone – Peter Jones reminded me of the series of articles he and Elizabeth De Santo wrote about the contrasting approaches by Governments – UK Government being a good example – in […]
27 Mar 2019
Michael Gove & Therese Coffey appeared before the Environment Audit Committee and their responses covered the new Environment Bill and also plans in the event of a Brexit no-deal. No surprises that in Gove’s own words these plans are ‘suboptimal’. Civil Service World ‘Environment secretary Michael Gove has admitted that the arrangements in place for […]
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