Cabinet Office This guidance helps emergency planners ensure communities are central to emergency planning, response and recovery. The Community Resilience Development Framework (CRDF) is an update to the Community Resilience Framework for Practitioners (2016) , reflecting the wider landscape of activities and capabilities being captured under the term Community Resilience (individual resilience, social action, voluntary […]
Climate change is expected to alter water quality in rivers, but where and when this may happen is uncertain. This report describes a study of projected response in the amount of algal plant growth (phytoplankton biomass). Increasing algal growth is one of the ecological manifestations of eutrophication in slow flowing rivers, where the water starts […]
No major oil company invests to support Paris goals of keeping well below 2˚C Carbon Tracker: Oil and gas companies have approved $50 billion of investment since 2018 in major projects that undermine climate targets and threaten shareholder returns, Carbon Tracker finds in a report released today. The first study to identify individual projects that […]
The last week was remarkable in terms of the political dynamics, but there are practical consequences. Three emerge. Losing Bills The Fisheries Bill and Agriculture Bill are both likely to fall this week. In part because of the proroguing of Parliament and probably compounded by the likelihood of another election. As of Friday afternoon no […]
Final Contract Report 1st January 2011 to 31st December 2017 Between 1st January 2011 and 31st December 2017, the UK Cetacean Strandings. Investigation Programme (CSIP) received reports of 4896 cetaceans, 97 marine turtles and. 21 basking sharks. The largest number of cetacean reports was received in England (n=2363), with smaller numbers in Scotland (n=1616), Wales (n=774), Northern Ireland (n=76), the Isle of Man […]
Seafish ‘Climate change is a strategic challenge across all UK sectors, including wild capture seafood. This report from Seafish and the Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) considers recent advances in understanding and industry experience of climate change drivers and impacts. Advances in understanding draws on new scientific evidence collated through the MCCIP initiative, experience […]
Guardian: ‘The British government is facing growing outrage from the European commission and five EU member states over its plans to leave some decommissioned oil rigs in the North Sea, with one senior German official describing the UK’s proposal as a “grotesque idea” that amounts to a “ticking timebomb”. Several hundred oil drilling platforms in […]