The IMO Ballast Water Convention is on the eve of entry into force. With Indonesia, Morocco and Ghana recently ratifying convention, it is expected that the world is within 1% of reaching the required 35% Global Tonnage remaining to be signed. Senior industry officials are suggesting that the convention is imminent. Once ratified, ship owners […]
BLOOM : ‘The giant retail group “Les Mousquetaires” (owner of Intermarché, Netto, Bricomarché brands etc.) announced earlier today[1] that its fishing fleet, “Scapêche”, an important player in deep-sea fishing in Europe, will progressively phase out fishing for deep-sea species, as well as the sale of deep-sea fish in its supermarkets by 2025. The group also announced […]
ABPmer: ‘The UK’s first and largest beneficial use of dredged sediment projects took place at Horsey Island (Hamford Water, Essex). Now that over 10 years have passed since the completion of the last phase of work (and nearly 30 years since the first trial phases) ABPmer has prepared a brief review of all the Horsey […]
Although Flood Re has now opened for business it seems likely that it’s critics and others will make plenty of demands; these four articles outline the launch and expectations. 1. Up to half a million households in high flood risk areas now have access to affordable flood insurance as Flood Re has officially opened for business. […]
Six professional bodies, led by CIWEM, representing 150,000 built environment professionals, including civil engineers, architects and environmental experts called on Lords to support a sustainable drainage amendment in the Housing and Planning Bill to improve the UK’s resilience to flooding. The amendment received cross-party support but unfortunately was not adopted at the Committee Stage. We […]
Two reports highlighting the growing evidence for natural solutions and upstream thinking Flooding alleviated by targeted tree planting and river restoration A study by an international team of scientists, led by the Universities of Birmingham and Southampton, has shown that strategic planting of trees on floodplains could reduce the height of flooding in towns downstream […]
Research commissioned by the Environment Agency predicts that eutrophication in rivers will increase with climate change, but can be mitigated with better water management. It sets out a national scale picture of flow related changes in phosphorus concentrations and indicates where the Agency may need to target intervention to meet phosphorus standards in the future. […]
A case study of how the Greater Chicago District is facing this challenge with an ambitious plan and mix of reducing energy consumption and increasing production of renewable energy. Perhaps the message from this is setting the goal in the first place.