27 Apr 2016
Martin Brocklehurst: ‘Have you picked up the EU Fitness Review of Monitoring and Reporting – I missed it till a few days ago? Virtually every environmental directive could be affected. It could be very significant in the sense that measuring the effectiveness of EU Directives is crucial to knowing if they are working.’ EU. ‘In […]
27 Apr 2016
UKSSD: ‘On 25 September 2015 the largest gathering of Heads of Government in history met at the UN General Assembly to ratify the Sustainable Development Goals, a 15 year global framework for sustainable development of unprecedented scope and ambition. The Sustainable Development Goals resolve to end poverty and hunger everywhere, drive inclusive economic growth, advance […]
27 Apr 2016
Farmers in Northumberland are being offered an opportunity to take advantage of grants to help them protect and improve water quality and modernise their farms and equipment through a scheme run by Northumbrian Water. The water company launched Pesti-wise in 2015 as a collaborative initiative; working with farmers and growers within specific target sub-catchments to […]
27 Apr 2016
Experts see energy efficiency as a key element of a coherent energy policy and UK Government seemed to have organised a highly inept scheme which has been closed down and the NAO have written a critical report on this. In the article below it seems we could learn from the Germans. David Thorpe: The National Audit […]
26 Apr 2016
DONG Energy: A £10 million fund is being launched by DONG Energy to help local community projects on the UK East Coast over the next 20 years. The East Coast Community Fund is being set up to ensure that local people benefit from the operation of two of the company’s offshore wind farms – Race […]
26 Apr 2016
Guardian: World governments vow to end fossil fuel era at UN climate signing ceremony: Representatives of more than 170 countries endorse Paris agreement to cut carbon emissions, with France’s president saying: ‘There is no turning back’. Just as well because the threat of environmental damage to the marine environment is immediate and evidence amassing at […]
26 Apr 2016
Tidal energy work – two examples 1. Perpetuus – Tidal Energy Centre – Isle of Wight The MMO has approved an application for a grid-connected tidal energy development off the Isle of Wight coast. The application, from Perpetuus Tidal Energy Centre Ltd, includes activities relating to the construction and operation of a tidal energy centre […]
26 Apr 2016
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego-led research team suggests that this information should be used to better assess the human health risks from eating contaminated seafood. The study was published in the April 15 issue of the journal Science Advances. A protein found in cells of nearly all plants and animals, called […]
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