02 Nov 2015
The gestation of this paper and two others has been rather controversial – no doubt the full story will emerge in time – but it is, never the less, being seen both in the UK and in Brussels as a significant contribution to our understanding of the effects of climate change on good environmental status […]
27 Oct 2015
Three reports of interest to those concerned with MPAs and marine biodiversity: 1.Marine protected Areas – Smart Investments in Ocean Health – report WWF Valuing MPAs – some useful material on economics of MPAs and high cost benefit ratios associated with them. http://ocean.panda.org/media/WWF_Marine_Protected_Areas_LR_SP.pdf 2. Report explores recovery of habitats and species in Scotland’s […]
20 Oct 2015
The Government has responded to the Climate Change Committee 2015 progress report. Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, and Rt Hon Liz Truss MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, are the responsible Cabinet Ministers. In their response they say: “This Government remains committed to our carbon targets and to protecting […]
19 Oct 2015
Prof Jacquie McGlade said the UK was shifting away from clean energy as the rest of the world rushed towards it. She said the cuts in renewables subsidies, coupled with tax breaks for oil and gas, sent a worrying signal to the coming UN climate summit in Paris. The UK government says it will meet […]
30 Sep 2015
Guardian ‘Carney warns of risks from climate change ‘tragedy of the horizon’ Bank of England governor tells Lloyd’s insurers that ‘challenges currently posed by climate change pale in significance compared with what might come’ Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, has warned that climate change will lead to financial crises and falling […]
25 Sep 2015
Next two years likely to be hottest recorded as the world’s climate reaches major turning point – but UK summers may be cooler, report predicts the UK Met Office. The world’s climate has reached a major turning point and is set to deliver record-breaking global temperatures in 2015 and 2016, according to a new report […]
18 Sep 2015
New research into the impact of climate change has found that warming oceans will cause profound changes in the global distribution of marine biodiversity. In a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change an international research team modelled the impacts of a changing climate on the distribution of almost 13 thousand marine species, more […]
18 Sep 2015
Seas around the world have risen an average of nearly 3 inches (8 centimetres ) since 1992, with some locations rising by more than 9 inches due to natural variation according to Nasa and its partners. Intensive research is pointing the way to the unavoidable rise and working on locational differences which can be vary […]
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