World Water Day: long-term opportunities in investing in water
Sustainable investment house Impax Asset Management has said that investors should be looking at how to tackle future water-related challenges, as part of World Water Day 2013. Impax, a specialist in resource efficiency and cleantech investment, commented on the long-term environmental, social and financial benefits of managing water resources...
US bans Shell from Arctic drilling until safety fears are eliminated
The US interior department has banned oil giant Shell from extracting fossil fuels from Arctic waters until it can prove it is 100% able to deal with the harsh conditions and the impacts of a possible spill. After a 60-day review of the firm’s operations, the department expressed its...
Pope Francis: assuming responsibility for nature?
The world’s 1.2 billion Catholics have a new leader, after Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was elected Pope Francis I in an historic ceremony at the Vatican last night. The new pope must take a strong position on climate change and environmental degradation – but as luck would have it,...
No Dash for Gas celebrates victory as EDF retracts lawsuit
EDF has pulled the £5m civil claim it lodged against No Dash for Gas, which occupied and shut down one of its power stations for a week last October, saying that it had agreed to “compromise” with the protesters. Twenty-one activists from the environmental campaign group were faced with...
Paterson likely to reject EU ban on insecticides harmful to bees
Despite overwhelming public backing in favour of bee protection, environment secretary Owen Paterson appears set to reject European proposals over the banning of three bee-harming insecticides. According to The Guardian, almost three-quarters of the UK public is behind the ban of neonicotinoid insecticides, which have been linked strongly to a...
Vegetation near Arctic shows temperatures are rising fast
A team of scientists has revealed that increasing temperatures in the northern hemisphere have led to significant changes in the growth of vegetation in the region. Their study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change and called Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands, has highlighted how the Arctic...
Government admits to breaching legal air quality limits
The government has admitted that in 15 regions across the UK, air quality laws will be breached come 2020, in a Supreme Court hearing lodged by environmental law firm Client Earth. Whilst confessing that legal limits will be broken, the government also claimed that the laws are “unrealistically strict”....
Asda looks to Canary Islands to slash banana footprint
Supermarket chain Asda has announced it will start selling bananas from the Canary Islands instead of from the Caribbean and Central America, in an effort to cut the fruit’s carbon footprint and reduce transportation time. According to The Guardian, journeys will be 80% shorter, now lasting four days –...
Prince William backs Thai ivory trade ban
Prince William has this week called upon world leaders to support a full ivory ban in Thailand, in order to address the so-called ‘killing frenzy’ of elephants and rhinos. The Duke of Cambridge, who is a patron for the wildlife conservation charity Tusk Trust, expressed his concerns over the...
Government in court over air pollution ‘scandal’
A case from environmental law firm Client Earth against the government over its failure to meet legal limits for air quality will be heard today by the Supreme Court. A win could force the government to take drastic action reduce UK air pollution. The case pushed forward by Client...
Online portal launched to help manufacturers recycle
Waste is and has always been inevitable problem facing all manufacturers in the UK. Companies are often overwhelmed by the complex situation of finding the best way to dispose of a huge amount of waste; some of which they may deem unrecyclable. One of the main problems is that...
Russia and US polar bear protection proposal rejected at conference
A proposal by Russia and the US to protect polar bears in Canada was rejected at an international conference on endangered species held this week in Thailand. Yesterday the EU blocked a US and Russian proposal to transfer the polar bear from Appendix II to Appendix I of the...
Shrinking Arctic will create shipping bonanza in region
The Atlantic and Pacific oceans could be connected by a shipping route through the Arctic in less than 40 years, if ice melt in the region continues at its current rate. According to research by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), sea ice in the Arctic has never...
Global conference seeks to stop the ‘killing frenzy’ for ivory
An international conference in Thailand is attempting to implement an overarching ivory ban, in order to cut back on the poaching of rhinos and elephants known as the “killing frenzy”. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) started its two-week meeting on Sunday in Bangkok, to restrain...
Environment Agency: climate change means we need to adapt to extreme weather
Environment Agency chairman Lord Smith has told the BBC that the UK will have to adapt to floods and droughts and be prepared to face more extreme weather in the coming years because of climate change. Floods have hit Britain on one in every five days in 2012 and one...
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