Natural Capital Coalition Currently companies that measure and value their impacts and dependencies on natural capital do so in a myriad of different ways. This prevents comparability, consistency and mainstream adoption of these approaches. This protocol responds to those challenges. If you would like to learn more go to: http://www.naturalcapitalcoalition.org/natural-capital-protocol.html
Water Efficiency Today: A 2015 UK Review This review provides a snapshot of water efficiency activities being carried out today, and acts as a corner stone to the forthcoming UK Water Efficiency Strategy. Waterwise is ten years old. When we were established in 2005, water efficiency was a marginal activity with a few dedicated enthusiastic […]
Two Ofwat consultations on water resources Consultation on the abstraction incentive mechanism The abstraction incentive mechanism (AIM) has the objective of encouraging water companies to reduce the environmental impact of abstracting water at environmentally sensitive sites when water is scarce. We plan to implement the AIM in reputational form from 1 April 2016. Water companies […]
There are a bewildering array of other elements behind the headline % cuts which are lower than predicted. Smoke and mirrors, billions down the back of the sofa, an OBR windfall (£27bn) is how the ‘new’ money has been described. The Defra statement is set out below. Three elements begin to emerge: The flood infrastructure […]
The UK government has cancelled its £1bn competition for carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology just six months before it was due to be awarded, breaking a pledge in the Conservative party’s election manifesto. The abandonment of a technology championed by David Cameron and seen as vital in tackling global warming will be an embarrassment […]
These reports may be downloaded from The Crown Estate website at: http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/energy-and-infrastructure/research/energy-research/reports/
Decades’ worth of data revealing the health of our seas and marine wildlife, will be made freely available to the public for the first time, following the launch of a new ‘Data Hub’ today by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas). The Cefas Data Hub, an online portal allowing the public and […]
Cefas ‘Knowledge about which human activities take place where, when, and how often, is essential for successful Marine Planning, the management of human activities, to understand how the different activities relate to one another and facilitate assessments required under WFD and MSFD. Whereas the location and footprint of most human activities is well known (e.g. […]