27 Jul 2021
Fairness and opportunity: A people-powered plan for the green transition The final report of our Environmental Justice Commission The Environmental Justice Commission was established in May 2019 in recognition that action to address the accelerating climate and nature emergencies can be about more than staving off the worst; it can be about imagining a better […]
27 Jul 2021
19 July Today, the Aldersgate Group announces the appointment of the Rt Hon Theresa May MP as its new Chair, with effect from Tuesday 20 July 2021. She will take over from former Labour MP Joan Walley, who has chaired the Aldersgate Group for the last six years. Theresa May will support the Group’s ongoing […]
21 Jul 2021
Devastating pictures from the BBC. Around 200 people are dead and hundreds more remain missing after catastrophic flooding across large swaths of western Europe. Tens of thousands are unable to return to their homes or without access to power and drinking water. The flooding, caused by unprecedented rainfall, has hit parts of western Germany, as well as neighbouring Belgium and the Netherlands. […]
21 Jul 2021
Projects to restore kelp forests, create new woodland, deliver natural flood risk management, and improve water quality are among an initial 27 schemes to benefit from a pioneering new fund to drive private investment in nature and tackle climate change, Defra, the Environment Agency & Natural England have announced today (14 July 2021). Read more […]
21 Jul 2021
The European Commission has set out its ‘Fit for 55’ proposals. All 27 EU Member States have pledged to reduce emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels, and committed to turning the EU into the first climate neutral continent by 2050. it is part of the European Green Deal, which set […]
13 Jul 2021
From the Guardian The UK’s climate targets will cost the government less over the next 30 years than the price of battling the Covid-19 pandemic if it acts quickly, according to the UK’s fiscal watchdog. Forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) show that ending the UK’s contribution to the global climate crisis would […]
13 Jul 2021
Covered in the Guardian Human activity such as greenhouse gas emissions and land use change were a key factor in extreme precipitation events such as flooding and landslides around the world, a study has found. In recent years, there have been numerous instances of flooding and landslides: extreme precipitation, an amount of rainfall or snowfall […]
06 Jul 2021
The Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology has published a briefing on Water Supply Resilience and Climate Change, to which Waterwise contributed. The impartial briefing for MPs highlights the scale of the water supply challenge and outlines the policy proposals to tackle the issue – water efficiency labelling, minimum efficiency standards and changing planning policy […]
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