Creating Climate Resilient Places: a new direction for a nation Environment Agency ‘Speech by Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive, Environment Agency at the Flood and Coast 2020 Digital Conference. Introduction I’m very pleased to be joining you all this morning for this exciting and innovative edition of Flood and Coast, and am privileged to be […]
Wildlife & Countryside Link / Blue Print for Water: Recently, you spoke of “thoughtful reform” of the Water Framework Directive regulations to deliver “even better outcomes”. In light of growing public concern about water pollution, over-abstraction of sensitive rivers and streams, and serious ongoing shortcomings in water quality, any weakening of Water Framework Standards would […]
Sir James Bevan gave a speech – In praise of Red Tape – which set out a wide range of post-Brexit ideas for simplifying our water regulations as well and for making sure enforcement was possible. However, newspaper articles in the Guardian and separately by George Monbiot and in the Mail online have been highly […]
In praise of red tape: getting regulation right Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, gives a speech at the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry on environmental regulation. This is a Must Read detailed speech by Sir James Bevan, CEO of the Environment Agency – on the Post-Brexit regulatory regime Click here […]
One of the Environment Agency’s primary duties is to reduce and manage flood risk in England. We do that principally by building and maintaining flood defences, warning and informing people when flooding threatens, and deploying our teams on the ground to protect communities against flooding and help them recover when it happens. So there are […]
Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 4 February 2020 The climate emergency is real But let’s start with the bad news. There really is a climate emergency. Evidence: The carbon and other greenhouses gases we are putting into the atmosphere means – precisely as the science […]
After Whaley Bridge there will be growing focus on dam safety and the operators of this ageing infrastructure (continue) The end of emergency and the ongoing pumping set up – watch the video (continue) The summer floods of 2019 gave rise to the major emergency at the Whale Bridge reservoir. Once the immediate danger had […]
Sir James Bevan warns companies to improve their pollution performance Environment Agency (EA) Chief Executive Sir James Bevan has warned water companies to improve their pollution performance, saying: “If companies cannot operate without damaging the environment, they will rightly lose their social licence to operate.” Bevan, in a speech at the Water Industry Forum in Birmingham, said the […]