The warning comes from sustainability experts Envirowise and follows research which found that 70% of sustainability specialists consider the threat of dwindling water supplies to be equal to the impact of carbon emissions, while 54% believe the world will run out of water before it runs out of fuel.
It is predicted that UK groundwater will [...]
Is London Heading For a Water Crunch?
October 15th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: · carbon emissions, defra, environment agency, envirowise, london, reuse, Water, water crunch
Code for green products to be updated
February 19th, 2009 · No Comments
A code for marketing products as ‘green’ is to be updated following the growth of the sector, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced.
The code, designed to instruct businesses on how to market their products and to give customers confidence that goods and services they are buying really are ‘green’, is [...]
Tags: · code, defra, green, products
Throwaway razors and nappies should be taxed as luxuries, says Defra
September 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Disposable razors and nappies could be taxed as luxury goods in order to cut the amount of waste going to landfill, a Government-funded report to ministers has suggested.
Tags: · AIB, blog, defra, environmental, inconvenient, luxuries, nappies, razors, tax
Herpes virus ravages Koi carp population
August 13th, 2008 · No Comments
An outbreak of a deadly disease that affects Koi carp has been confirmed after 60 of the fish died at one of Britain’s most prestigious royal gardens.
The outbreak has forced the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to restrict the movement of fish in the Royal Horticultural Garden ponds at Hyde Hall, Essex, [...]
Tags: · AIB, blog, carp, defra, environmental, herpes, inconvenient, koi, outbreak, virus
On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction
August 12th, 2008 · No Comments
Check out this excellent article by Oliver Tickell in todays Guardian. It paints a rather catostrophic future unless we pull our collective fingers out. Read on below:
“We need to get prepared for four degrees of global warming, Bob Watson told the Guardian last week. At first sight this looks like wise counsel from the climate [...]
Tags: · AIB, blog, change, climate, defra, environmental, extinction, global, inconvenient, warming
Prepare for global temperature rise of 4C, warns top scientist
August 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Drought-resistant plants such as these in the Majorelle gardens in Marrakech, Morocco, would become more common in British gardens. Photograph: Clay Perry/Corbis
The UK should take active steps to prepare for dangerous climate change of perhaps 4C according to one of the government’s chief scientific advisers.
In policy areas such as flood protection, agriculture and coastal erosion [...]
Tags: · AIB, blog, bob, change, climate, dangerous, defra, environmental, inconvenient, rise, warning, watson
Microchip bin tax scheme to go ahead despite failures
June 18th, 2008 · No Comments
The government today insisted that pilot schemes to test bin taxes using wheelie bins with microchips will go ahead despite a decision to scrap them by the first council to try the scheme.
The microchips enable bins to be weighed by bin lorries so the amount each household recycles and throws away can be assessed.
Tags: · AIB, bin, blog, defra, environmental, household, inconvenient, microchip, norfolk, pilot, schemes, tax, Waste
Earthwire News 9th June 2008
June 9th, 2008 · No Comments
China Eyes Domestic Emissions Trading Scheme
Planet Ark
BEIJING – China’s central bank has drawn up a tentative outline for a domestic emissions trading scheme that could cover everything from greenhouse gases to water pollutants, and speed the country’s push for greener growth.
Mexico City Cyclists Ride Nude In Anti-Car Protest
Planet Ark
MEXICO [...]
Tags: · AIB, blog, defra, Earthwire, environmental, inconvenient, News, UNEP
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