01 Sep 2015
Read the main News from the Stockholm water conference: http://www.worldwaterweek.org/daily/ Sustainable Development Goals, Climate change and Water security EAEM News ‘Preparing for new Sustainable Development goals at the COP21 talks in December, leaders and water experts from around the world are seeking solutions to the world’s several escalating water crises at World Water Week in […]
01 Sep 2015
EAC ‘The Government has confirmed in a written response to the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) that it will publish an impact assessment ‘later this summer’ concerning its decision on 18 June 2015 to close the Renewables Obligation for onshore wind projects a year earlier than planned. The confirmation from Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Secretary […]
01 Sep 2015
These two articles were flagged to me by the excellent COAST Newsletter – you can sign up here http://www.arrancoast.com/marine-news Both papers reveal the role of continued Nephrops – prawn fisheries on white fish stocks Fishery-induced changes to age and length dependent maturation schedules of three demersal fish species in the Clyde The paper published in Fisheries […]
01 Sep 2015
This is a summery PR story – fine – but the CCF is real enough and effective. But there are a host of funding streams available to coastal communities for regeneration and development and what marked out the last Government was their lack of willingness to take an integrated view of these. With a clearly […]
01 Sep 2015
Defra ‘Today we have published the Government’s response and consultation summary on our proposed changes to marine licensing, so that in exceptional circumstances the Secretary of State can make certain licence decisions. The Government’s response confirms that it will proceed with the proposed changes. These strengthen the democratic accountability of the marine licensing process for […]
01 Sep 2015
MMO ‘On the 21 August 2015 Westminster Dredging Company Limited appeared at Plymouth Magistrates Court in respect of 1 charge of carrying out marine licensable activity otherwise in accordance with a marine licence contrary to section 65 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009. The charge related to a dredging and disposal campaign carried […]
01 Sep 2015
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Liverpool have entered into a new strategic partnership creating the Institute for Sustainable Coasts and Oceans (ISCO). The new Institute is a collaborative venture that brings together marine scientists, social scientists, engineers and economists to meet the challenges of a changing ocean and a changing coastal […]
26 Aug 2015
UK Unprepared For Environmental Disaster Following Budget Cuts Guardian ‘The country could be unprepared to deal with major environmental disasters because government jobs cuts have got rid of vital scientists and specialist staff, according to a senior public sector union official. Leslie Manasseh, the president of the TUC and deputy general secretary of the Prospect union, […]
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