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10 Aug 2022

NewsWater

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

MarineNews

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

MarineNews

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

MarineNews

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

NewsWater

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 […]

16 Jun 2022

NewsWater

Up to 200,000 English properties are at risk of sea level rise from the 2050s shows a study published by Paul Sayers an Affiliate of the Tyndall Centre UEA. The story was also covered in the Guardian and the BBC. The estimate is according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Oceans and Coastal […]

08 Jun 2022

NewsWater

Impacts of climate change on water management — stocktaking, scope for action and strategic fields of action In December 2020, the German Working Group on Water Issues of the Federal States and the Federal Government (LAWA) prepared a comprehensive report on the concerns, potential responses and strategic fields of action in water resources management, updating the previous work […]

08 Jun 2022

NewsWater

From the Ecologist Climate breakdown impacts could cause damage to the UK equivalent to cutting the size of the economy by at least 7.4 percent by the end of this century, unless there are stronger reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions. This is the “stark warming” contained in a report published today (30 May 2022) […]