Last week, Yorkshire Water won the prestigious Finance for the Future Award for the company’s innovative Six Capitals sustainability accounting approach. Read more about the awards here, and about Yorkshire Water’s approach here. Last week’s Financial Times Water Summit was “a unique event on the global financial and water calendars. Targeted at CEOs and CFOs […]
The Environment Agency has published 2017 data on regulated businesses in England, covering operational risk appraisal compliance ratings, pollution inventory, pollution incidents, enforcement and waste crime. It shows there were more than 400 pollution incidents, although only a minority of these were more serious category 1 or 2 incidents. Click here to see the data.
The latest annual report for the Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) initiative sumamrises the achievements from 452 projects. For every £ directly invested by government, CaBA partnerships have raised £6.50 from non-governmental funders. Over 14,000 volunteers and citizen scientists have been actively involved, 2,835ha of habitat have been created, 94 barriers to fish migration have been […]
Watch the latest evidence session of the Environment Audit Committee inquiry on Sustainable Sea. The Committee are examining the impact of environmental changes and the legal framework protecting ocean biodiversity, a sustainable blue economy and the impact of marine industries, science and innovation, and blue finance. Topics covered by witnesses last week include plastic pollution, […]
In England, it is estimated that annually we use 4.7 billion plastic straws, 316 million plastic stirrers and 1.8 billion plastic-stemmed cotton buds. An estimated 10% of cotton buds are flushed down toilets and can end up in waterways and oceans. Even though non-plastic alternatives are readily available, these single-use plastic items are used for just a few […]
The 73rd session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is taking place in London this week. On the agenda is consideration of setting a cap of ship speeds to significantly reduce their contribution to climate change, support for implementation of the new lower 0.50% limit on Sulphur in […]
In a recent interview Daniel Pauly called for a total ban on open-ocean fishing. He argues that such a step is essential for rebuilding badly depleted global fishing stocks and preventing the demise of the fishing industry itself. “People assume that with 59% of the ocean closed, you will have no place left to fish. […]
Successfully managing current threats to marine resources and ecosystems is largely dependent on our ability to understand and manage human behavior. In recent times we have seen increased growth in research to understand the human dimension of marine resource use, and the associated implications for management. However, despite progress to date, marine research and management […]