Environmental News

This IEMA event was hosted by Brighton University and gave an interesting and exciting insight into issues surrounding contaminated land. There were 5 speakers who talked about a variety of issues from new technologies and sustainable developments to coping in an economic down turn.

Research by the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA)[1] shows a 28% increase over the last 2 years in the use of formal environmental management systems by organisations in the UK.

Climate Change Adaptation - a developing agenda where environment and sustainability professionals can make an important contribution either directly, or in combination with colleagues working on risk management or business continuity. This workshop was an event for practitioners who are active in this field and/or whose organisations are factoring climatic change into their future planning and risk management.

New analysis shows populations of tropical species are plummeting and humanity’s demands on natural resources are sky-rocketing to 50% more than the earth can sustain, reveals the 2010 edition of WWF’s Living Planet Report – the leading survey of the planet’s health.

United Nations officials have called on industrialised countries to live up to their multi-billion dollar pledges to help the developing world adapt to climate change at a week-long meeting of several hundred African experts, including Government ministers, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

A new species has been discovered in a part of the ocean previously thought to be entirely free of fish, scientists said.

Amsterdam, Zagreb, Paris and Mexico City become the first cities to pledge to cut their carbon emissions by 10% in the next year

A humpback whale has travelled the longest distance recorded for any mammal, swimming across nearly a quarter of the globe between two breeding grounds.

A video camera trap installed by WWF and partners has captured footage linking the destruction of a crucial Sumatran tiger forest to the expansion of palm oil plantations in Indonesia’s Riau Province.

The La Niña weather pattern is likely to continue and may strengthen over the next four to six months, potentially bringing abnormal conditions to widely separate areas of the world, from floods to droughts to below or above normal temperatures, the United Nations weather agency reported.

Hundreds of people gathered at a United Nations-backed meeting in Addis Ababa to identify actions that will promote sustainable development in Africa in the face of climate change.

Huge investments in green technology in Asia and steps toward domestic emissions trading are opening up the prospect of regional carbon trading, climate change experts in Asia have said.

Wind power could meet about a fifth of the world's electricity demand within 20 years, an industry group and environmental watchdog Greenpeace predicted in a new report.

Google is extending its investment in green technology with a $5bn (£3.2bn) programme to build an undersea, wind energy transmission backbone along 350 miles of the Atlantic seaboard.

The world's rivers are in a crisis of ominous proportions, according to a new global analysis.

Ten or more zebu carts filled with around 100 terrestrial tortoises each are leaving the Mahafaly Plateau in south Madagascar every week, according to a survey conducted by WWF staff.

Innovations in clean energy technologies are concentrated in six countries – Japan, the United States, Germany, the Republic of Korea (ROK), France and the United Kingdom – according to a new United Nations-backed study.

Unless you’re in the habit of purchasing bulk orders when you shop online, you can ditch the notion you are helping the environment by skipping a trip to the mall, a recent study has found.

Obsession with economic growth and the greed of financial speculators are destroying efforts to conserve the world's diminishing resources.

The falling cost of renewable energy and rising cost of oil and gas will allow Denmark to develop an energy network entirely free of fossil fuels by 2050, according to a report published by the Government's climate commission.