WWF ‘The conservation campaigners say they have been granted permission by the High Court for a judicial review, arguing that the government is failing in its legal duties, set out under the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). Their case focuses on areas known as Natura 2000 sites, including several East Anglian habitats where the groups […]
Click here to read more Bloomberg ‘Coca-Cola Co. and its bottling partners expect to be replenishing 100 percent of the water used in their factories by the end of 2015, reaching a longstanding conservation goal five years ahead of schedule. The beverage giant, which announced the replenishment target in 2007, said it’s already “balancing” about […]
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Liverpool have developed a new visualisation tool to predict the maximum cost of coastal flooding to communities around estuaries. This method, published in PLOS One, works by combining high impact flooding scenarios with land use maps. Researchers used this method to find that the economic damage […]
Read the main News from the Stockholm water conference: http://www.worldwaterweek.org/daily/ Sustainable Development Goals, Climate change and Water security EAEM News ‘Preparing for new Sustainable Development goals at the COP21 talks in December, leaders and water experts from around the world are seeking solutions to the world’s several escalating water crises at World Water Week in […]
EAC ‘The Government has confirmed in a written response to the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) that it will publish an impact assessment ‘later this summer’ concerning its decision on 18 June 2015 to close the Renewables Obligation for onshore wind projects a year earlier than planned. The confirmation from Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Secretary […]
These two articles were flagged to me by the excellent COAST Newsletter – you can sign up here http://www.arrancoast.com/marine-news Both papers reveal the role of continued Nephrops – prawn fisheries on white fish stocks Fishery-induced changes to age and length dependent maturation schedules of three demersal fish species in the Clyde The paper published in Fisheries […]
This is a summery PR story – fine – but the CCF is real enough and effective. But there are a host of funding streams available to coastal communities for regeneration and development and what marked out the last Government was their lack of willingness to take an integrated view of these. With a clearly […]
Defra ‘Today we have published the Government’s response and consultation summary on our proposed changes to marine licensing, so that in exceptional circumstances the Secretary of State can make certain licence decisions. The Government’s response confirms that it will proceed with the proposed changes. These strengthen the democratic accountability of the marine licensing process for […]