19 Feb 2024

Experts and academics are invited to join a new science network that will help to provide evidence on the environmental impact of deep-sea mining. The UK Government has launched a new UK-based environmental science network, to gather scientific data, and carry out world-class research to help assess the environmental impacts of deep-sea mining. Eligible applicants […]

05 Jul 2022

The UK Government has joined other world leaders at the UN Ocean Conference to announce new initiatives to protect the global marine environment. Defra released a news item which stated that: ‘The government’s ambitious £500 million Blue Planet Fund, launched at the G7 Leader’s Summit last year, is already supporting developing countries and vulnerable coastal […]

05 Jul 2022

The UK government, with Canada, Iceland and the US, has launched a world-first global alliance to tackle illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing which poses a threat to ocean ecosystems, coastal communities and global fish stocks by undermining fisheries management and distorting trade. The IUU Fishing Action Alliance will bring together countries leading the fight […]

02 Aug 2016

Lots of people wondered quite why we relying on Communist China to fund our land mark energy project. Now we are getting to see George Osborne’s role and how it was opposed by others in cabinet. Hinkley is a really key benchmark to the whole of our energy policy – who knows what Theresa will […]