25 May 2021
From Water Briefing The Environment Agency (EA) has pledged to default to low-carbon concrete when constructing flood defences and other critical infrastructure projects, provided they meet performance requirements, as it sets out its roadmap to hit net zero as an organisation by 2030. More than half of the EA’s carbon emissions currently come from the […]
25 May 2021
Blue carbon habitats have the potential to make significant contributions to Northern Ireland’s climate change targets, but the extent of this contribution is still unknown. Ulster Wildlife commissioned the Blue Carbon Habitat Restoration Feasibility Study to investigate where the current extent of coastal blue carbon habitats including seagrass meadows, kelp forests, saltmarsh, and shellfish beds are located, […]
11 May 2021
The Environment Agency has reviewed the evidence behind 17 different carbon offsetting approaches which included mainly nature-based solutions and a smaller number of built environment approaches: Woodland creation Upland peat restoration Biochar Hedges and trees outside of woodlands Household insulation Household low carbon heating Soils management: pasture Soils management: arable Enhanced weathering Lowland peat restoration […]
05 May 2021
From waterwise Smart metering of our water supplies can play a fundamental role in helping us manage water demand and meet the challenge of the climate emergency. Emerging evidence, presented in this jointly authored report from Waterwise and Arqiva, demonstrates how smart metering can help us adapt to a changing climate and mitigate our impact […]
05 May 2021
Natural England have released a comprehensive report on the Carbon Storage and Sequestration by Habitat 2021. It describes in detail the role different types of natural habits in Britain play in capturing carbon from the atmosphere. This comes weeks before the Environment Agency plan to release a similar report ‘Achieving Net Zero carbon emissions – a […]
04 May 2021
MCS ‘Our report in partnership with Rewilding Britain exploring ocean-based solutions for fight the climate crisis. What is blue carbon? Marine ecosystems like seagrass meadows, saltmarshes and mangroves absorb or ‘draw down’ carbon from the water and atmosphere, just like plants and trees on land. The storage of carbon in marine habitats is called blue […]
27 Apr 2021
EA New advice for farmers – Green crops & Cambridge Successful cover crops scheme expanded Cambridge and Affinity Water are pleased to announce that our novel cover crops scheme has been a success again this year. The joint initiative, launched last summer, captured 40 tonnes of nitrogen over 800 hectares which may otherwise have leached […]
27 Apr 2021
A comprehensive Natural England report on the impact of the nation’s landscape on carbon storage and sequestration, has found that peatlands and native woodlands are habitats which have the greatest capacity to store carbon, but that many others, including coastal and marine habitats such as saltmarsh and seagrass meadows have a significant role to play a […]
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