23 May 2016
Peter Jones: New critical analysis paper: Marine Spatial Planning in Reality – concludes “that the realities of how marine spatial planning (MSP’ing) is working contrast with widely recognised concepts and ideals as to how MSP’ing should work, as integrated-use MSP’ing based on political expedience and blue growth priorities is diverging from and potentially competing with […]
23 May 2016
The Celtic Seas Partnership is producing a series of Best Practice Guidelines to support marine stakeholders in working and co-existing in ways which promote healthy, productive seas, towards the EU’s target of ‘Good Environmental Status’. Following a series of facilitated discussions, alongside the development of ten case studies from across the Celtic Seas, we have […]
23 May 2016
MMO: The workshops will focus on the challenges and opportunities of each area, the MMO is inviting stakeholders to register their interest for workshops to discuss the challenges, opportunities and needs of the next phase of marine plan areas. The workshops are being held across the north east, north west, south east and south west […]
23 May 2016
Scotland’s First Minister Nichola Sturgeon has appointed a new Environment Secretary following the announcement that Richard Lochhead has stepped down from the role. The SNP MSP for Perthshire South and Kinross-shire, Roseanna Cunningham, will take over the front bench role within the Scottish Parliament from today (18 May), the Scottish Government has announced, having previously […]
19 May 2016
Future Water Association Votes on its ‘Future’ In a recent member vote to support a change in the Future Water Association’s Articles of Association, the voting support greatly exceeded 80% of the membership with unanimous agreement for the proposed changes. Amendments to Articles of Association are usually made as part of a legal requirement; however for […]
18 May 2016
Water Briefing A vote to leave the European Union would result in the UK giving up billions of pounds of infrastructure investment every year, the Prime Minister warned on Saturday – an outcome which has significant implications for the UK water sector. An exit from the EU would terminate Britain’s membership of the European Investment […]
18 May 2016
Water Briefing: A new research study says that climate change and extreme weather – including unusually wet summers in the UK – are linked to high pressure weather systems over Greenland, one of the fastest-warming regions of the world. A team of climate change experts at the University of Sheffield, led by Professor Edward Hanna […]
18 May 2016
Aquafund : ‘A new government framework has been launched, which public sector organisations can access to reduce their water costs and consumption by 30%, through the multi-million pound AquaFund Grant Scheme. The framework provides an OJEU-compliant route for the public sector to access the grant, which provides all the finance and managed services to reduce […]
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