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Better links between waste management, circular economy and climate change mitigation measures can boost greenhouse gas emission reductions

Recycling, repair, re-use or reducing material consumption through circular business models can provide important additional reductions in greenhouse gas emissions helping to boost Europe’s climate change mitigation efforts, according to a new European Environment Agency (EEA) briefing. The new EEA briefing found that while European countries are already undertaking many initiatives on waste management and circular economy, […]

Quantifying and reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment processes

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UKWIR (UK Water Industry Research) has published a new report ‘Quantifying and reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment processes – Phase 2’. The objective of this project was to start the practical journey for the UK and Irish water industry in the understanding of their process emission of nitrous oxide (N2O) and fugitive […]

Ofwat asks water companies to report greenhouse gas emissions – but is the industry ready?

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Ofwat publishes Regulatory Accounting Guidelines for reporting of emissions From Ofwat In our ‘Consultation on regulatory reporting – Responses document’, and the accompanying Information Notice (IN 20/08), we provided notice of, and reasons for, changes relating to how we would like companies to report on their Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions for 2020-21. This document reiterates […]

Distributed SuDS make a difference

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George Warren, Senior Policy Officer in Climate Change Adaptation & UK Susdrain SuDS Champion 2020 It’s all about small distributed #SuDS!!! Those whom know me will be familiar with me constantly banging on about the need to deliver small #SuDS at scale and how important it is that delivery organisations are able to unlock the […]

Thousands of tons of methane leaking from old drill holes on the North Sea floor

Marine , News

During expeditions to oil and gas reservoirs in the central North Sea in 2012 and 2013, scientists of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (Germany) discovered that methane bubbles emerged from the seabed around abandoned wells. The gas originates from shallow gas pockets, which lie less than 1000 meters deep below the seafloor […]