30 Aug 2017
Click here to read the EU Environmental Implementation Review Country Report on the United Kingdom in full Click here to read the EU Environmental Implementation Review Country Report on 28 Member States in full The report on the UK is one of 28 country reports on Member States published as part of the European Commission’s Environmental Implementation Review (EIR), a […]
16 Feb 2017
Useful outputs from this conference. A major report, presentations and a film – a Europe wide view. ‘We are pleased to announce that we finally published the Proceedings of the Conference “Progress in Marine Conservation in Europe 2015” by the end of 2016! It is published in the BfN-Series “BfN-Skripten” with the No. 451. Here, […]
14 Nov 2016
Guardian ‘Carnegie Wave Energy in Cornwall announced that it had secured £9.6m of EU funding that would enable it to connect England’s first commercial-scale wave power project to the grid. A 15MW array at Cornwall’s wave hub centre should now be commissioned in 2018, before commercial deployment in 2021. The local MP and environment minister George Eustice, […]
21 Sep 2016
Water Reuse Europe has been formally launched, which will “offer a range of services for both commercial companies and public organisations involved in water reuse scheme design, operation, and regulation”. Water reuse is playing an increasingly important role in the pursuit of sustainable water management and recent years have seen significant growth in the number […]
15 Aug 2016
The Guardian The chancellor Philip Hammond has sought to reassure scientists over post the Referendum vote and to guarantee billions of pounds of UK government investment after Brexit for projects currently funded by the EU, including science grants and agricultural subsidies. The chancellor’s funding commitment is designed to give a boost to the economy in […]
03 May 2016
Save Scottish Seas: Most eyes are on the UK’s EU ‘in-or-out’ referendum, but meanwhile our MEPs are considering important fisheries decisions; namely whether we act now to place urgent limits on deep sea bottom-trawling. Over the next few weeks (or possibly months), European representatives should – after years of negotiation and political delays – decide how best to […]
15 Dec 2015
The Guardians views on the recent EU Circular Economy package. ‘Last week, the European commission published its long awaited plan for promoting the circular economy. With 54 separate initiatives ranging from “action on false green claims” to a revised fertilisers regulation, the roadmap may be one of the most wide-ranging pieces of legislation the EU […]
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