06 Jul 2021
Environment Agency Chair Emma Howard Boyd last week spoke about water scarcity at the WWT event ‘Water Security in a Changing Environment’. “Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic and there is no vaccine to cure it. Most of the world will be living with water stress in the next few years. […]
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 […]
06 Jul 2021
Presented by George Monbiot, with live music from charlotte church. On Wed 14 July at 7pm, “in 60 action-packed minutes, the world’s first live investigative documentary will attempt to find out who is polluting our rivers and why we’re not stopping them.” See Rivercide TV. Covered in The Ecologist.
06 Jul 2021
The government has published its response to the independent, global Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity. Key points The Government agrees with the Dasgupta Review’s fundamental conclusion: nature, and the biodiversity that underpins it, ultimately sustains our economies, livelihoods and well-being, and so our decisions must take into account the true value of the […]
06 Jul 2021
The CRC for Water Sensitive Cities (CRCWSC) began in 2012 with a vision: Sustainable, resilient, productive and liveable cities and towns that value water’s contribution to economic development and growth, our quality of life, and the ecosystems of which cities are a part. Over 9 years, we formed a strong, national partnership between practitioners and […]
06 Jul 2021
Survey on offshore energy structure decommissioning Do you work in, or with, the offshore energy sector in the North Sea? The University of Exeter is looking for stakeholders from academia, offshore energy industries, NGOs, and advisory and regulatory groups to contribute to a questionnaire. MSc student Carolina Gomes is collecting data to understand […]
06 Jul 2021
Plastic pollution and projected growth of plastics – check this page of projections – and you’ll get the scale of the problem we are facing. Call for global treaty to end production of ‘virgin’ plastic by 2040 Scientists say agreement must cover extraction of raw materials and pollution that blights seas and land Science: A […]
06 Jul 2021
Click here to access the quinquennial review section of the JNCC website. Guardian ‘Legal protections for wildlife and plants in the UK are set for a review that could result in some important species losing their entitlement to special status, ecology experts have told the Guardian. Adders, slow worms, water voles, mountain hares, pine martens and red […]
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