06 Sep 2022
A study, published in Nature Climate Change, outlines a new index – the Climate Risk Index for Biodiversity (CRIB) – that assesses the climate risk for nearly 25,000 marine species and their ecosystems. The findings show that, under very high emissions, almost 90% of these species are put at high or critical risk, with […]
23 Aug 2022
Coastal wetlands can play an effective role in climate change adaptation and mitigation, by protecting shorelines and material assets from flooding and storm damage and trapping and storing CO2 from the atmosphere. They have been subject to high levels of historic modification through drainage and land-use change, which likely contributed to past CO2 emissions but […]
10 Aug 2022
We’re all too aware that climate change is a present reality, not least with the drier, hotter summers and increase in flooding. Add the growing pressure from population growth and economic development, and you can clearly see why there is concern about the impact on water supply resilience. The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) estimated that new water […]
10 Aug 2022
From waterbriefing A new research study is warning that climate change and increasing populations could be drastically reducing the resilience of wastewater infrastructure in the UK. Researchers from the University of Portsmouth have examined the dynamic changes in the resilience of UK wastewater treatment works, now known as Water Resource Recovery Facilities (WRRFs), and discovered […]
09 Aug 2022
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for the Ocean launched an inquiry into Blue Carbon and Ocean-Based Solutions to Climate Change. The inquiry will look at ocean-based solutions to climate change and the role of blue carbon and has set ten introductory questions, however respondents are encouraged to submit any and all thoughts that they […]
02 Aug 2022
Sea levels are increasing around Britain at a far faster rate than a century ago while the country is warming slightly more than the global average, leading meteorologists said. The annual study — the State of the UK Climate 2021 — found recent decades have been “warmer, wetter and sunnier” than the 20th century. The […]
12 Jul 2022
The Climate Change Committee’s progress report to the UK Parliament has recommended that saltmarsh and seagrass should be included in the UK Greenhouse Gas inventory. The statutory report provides a comprehensive overview of the UK Government’s progress to date in reducing emissions. Within the report there is coverage of carbon in marine and coastal ecosystems. […]
07 Jul 2022
The Environment Agency has begun introducing planning assumptions for a global rise of up to 4°C due to climate change, with a shift to resilience rather than an onus on protection of properties in the future. Speaking as part of New Civil Engineer’s Future of Floods conference, Environment Agency director of flood risk strategy and national […]
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