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| Title: | Consultation on Natural England’s draft Enforcement Policy |
| Organisation: | Natural England |
| Issued: | 21 August 2008 |
| Deadline: | 18 October 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | This consultation seeks your views on our approach to enforcement, the principles that we apply to our enforcement work and whether our draft Enforcement Policy will achieve our aims. Natural England is responsible for the regulatory stewardship and enforcement of offences relating to: Sites of Special Scientific Interest, illegal burning of heathland and grassland, agricultural work which affects uncultivated land or semi-natural areas and breaches of licences and notices that we issue under a... (50 words more) |
| Title: | Consultation on Our Seas – a shared resource |
| Organisation: | Defra |
| Issued: | 11 July 2008 |
| Deadline: | 30 September 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | To elaborate the marine vision, the UK Government and Devolved Administrations have worked together to set out a number of high level Marine Objectives which articulate the outcomes they are seeking for the UK marine area as a whole. The UK Government, Northern Ireland Executive and Welsh Assembly Government would welcome your views on these. The articulation of these high level objectives as a working document is a key first step in considering how we should develop an integrated Marine Policy... (120 words more) |
| Title: | The Scottish Soil Framework |
| Organisation: | Scottish Government |
| Issued: | 11 July 2008 |
| Deadline: | 22 September 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | Scotland's soils perform a large number of economic and environmental functions. Many industries, including farming and food production, forestry and tourism, depend on the sustainable use of soils. Soil management also plays an important role in sustainable flood management. Thus protecting Scotland's soils aligns with and supports the Government purpose of increasing sustainable economic growth. The Scottish Soil Framework was developed by Scottish Government based on the advice from a wide... (177 words more) |
| Title: | Deforestation and its impact on climate change and biodiversity loss |
| Organisation: | European Commission |
| Issued: | 10 July 2008 |
| Deadline: | 22 August 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | Deforestation includes both the permanent conversion of forest to cropland and pasture and the temporary or partial removal of forests. It is not a new phenomenon. Large-scale deforestation has been going on for several centuries throughout the world. However, tropical forests are now disappearing far more rapidly than forests in non-tropical regions, at a rate of more than 10 million hectares a year. Although tropical forests have featured recently in climate change discussions, they are much... (187 words more) |
| Title: | Review of the Recommendation on Minimum Criteria for Environmental Inspections |
| Organisation: | European Commission |
| Issued: | 24 June 2008 |
| Deadline: | 18 September 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | Environmental inspections cover all activities undertaken by authorities to ensure compliance with environmental legislation. They are a key instrument to ensure that environmental legislation is correctly applied. Realising that there were large differences in the way environmental inspections are carried out in the EU, the European Parliament and the Council adopted the Recommendation providing for minimum criteria for environmental inspections in 2001. The Recommendation contains non binding... (166 words more) |
| Title: | Protection of World Heritage Sites: Consultation paper |
| Organisation: | DCLG |
| Issued: | 10 June 2008 |
| Deadline: | 22 August 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | This consultation document seeks views on proposed measures designed to enhance the protection of World Heritage Sites (WHS) in England. The Government gave a commitment to introduce two of these measures in its white paper Heritage Protection for the 21st Century, published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in March 2007. The white paper also undertook to “include World Heritage Sites as Article 1(5) land under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)... (88 words more) |
| Title: | Consultation on the draft Soil Strategy for England |
| Organisation: | Defra |
| Issued: | 09 May 2008 |
| Deadline: | 23 June 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | This consultation invites views on a draft Soil Strategy for England. The purpose of the document is to provide a sound framework for policy making and delivery with the aim of ensuring the sustainable management of England’s soils. The draft Strategy sets out the pressures on our soils and the priority work areas that Defra have identified on the basis of these pressures. It explains current policy measures which are in place to achieve sustainable soil management and then sets out in broad... (24 words more) |
| Title: | The deliberate disturbance of marine European Protected Species - Guidance for English and Welsh territorial waters and the UK offshore marine area |
| Organisation: | JNCC |
| Issued: | 18 March 2008 |
| Deadline: | 04 June 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | Amendments to the Habitats Regulations for England and Wales and the new Offshore Marine Regulations came into force on 21 August 2007. Both Regulations revised the definition of disturbance of European Protected Species (EPS). These are species listed on the Annex IV to the Habitats Directive and include all species of cetaceans and turtles occurring in European waters and the Atlantic sturgeon. It is now an offence to deliberately disturb wild animals of EPS in such a way as to be likely... (33 words more) |
| Title: | Consultation on the proposed Welsh Soils Action Plan |
| Organisation: | Welsh Assembly Government |
| Issued: | 18 March 2008 |
| Deadline: | 13 June 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | Of the three environmental media – air, water and soil – policies for the protection of soils have been the subject of least attention. Robust national, European and international legislation has been in place to protect air and water for many years. It is only relatively recently that soil has attracted specific protection in a legislative framework. But soil is a valuable, finite resource delivering many goods and services critical to human life. It is important that soil is managed... (96 words more) |
| Title: | Public Consultation on Invasive Alien Species – A European Concern |
| Author: | Environment |
| Organisation: | European Commission |
| Issued: | 10 March 2008 |
| Deadline: | 05 May 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | The consultation seeks the views of all stakeholders on the scale of IAS problems and how to address them most effectively at EU level. We welcome comments from all interested parties, including individual citizens, industry and consumer representatives, interest groups, the NGO community and other organisations. The results of this consultation will be used to inform the development of EU policy in the field of invasive alien species, the options for which will be presented in a Communication... (8 words more) |
| Title: | CALL for EVIDENCE on the ECONOMICS OF BIODIVERSITY LOSS |
| Organisation: | European Commission |
| Issued: | 15 November 2007 |
| Deadline: | 31 December 2007 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | Following commitments made at the G8+5 meeting of Environment Ministers in Potsdam in March 2007, the Commission is supporting Germany with the preparatory work for a Review on the Economics of Biodiversity Loss to be presented at the Ninth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Bonn, Germany, in May 2008. The Review will be carried out by an independent economist. The Review will evaluate the costs of the loss of biodiversity and the associated decline in... (81 words more) |
| Title: | Review of schedule 9 to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and a ban on the sale of certain non-native species |
| Organisation: | Defra & Welsh Assembly |
| Issued: | 08 November 2007 |
| Deadline: | 31 January 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | Defra and the Welsh Assembly are seeking your comments on proposals to review of schedule 9 to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. The schedule lists non-native species that are already established in the wild, but which continue to pose a conservation threat to native biodiversity and habitats, such that further releases should be regulated. The consultation also includes proposals to ban the sale of certain non-native species |
| Title: | Environment Agency & SEPA: Summary of Significant Water Management Issues |
| Organisation: | Environment Agency & SEPA |
| Issued: | 16 October 2007 |
| Deadline: | 24 January 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | This consultation sets out what the Agencies believe are the most significant issues that face each River Basin District in Scotland, England and Wales. There are two consultations, one run by SEPA (with a consultation closing date of 8 April 2008), the other by the Environment Agency (with a consultation closing date of 24 January 2008). |
Birds and offshore wind farms
by Dr Tim Norman, RPS Cambridge (Ecology);
by Dr Tim Norman, RPS Cambridge (Ecology);
Dr Tim Norman, Technical Director at RPS Cambridge (Ecology) comments on important offshore bird populations, the Habitats Directive and the precautionary approach, as well as confronting uncertainty... (150 words more)
Biodiversity Impact Assessment
by IAIA;
by IAIA;
These principles are intended to promote
"biodiversity-inclusive" impact assessment (IA), including Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for projects, and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)... (205 words more)
United Utilities - Sustainable Catchment Management
by United Utilities;
by United Utilities;
United Utilities (UU) has a sustainable development policy, in place since 2002, dealing with the sustainable management of their catchments (the land from which they access drinking water). UU... (530 words more)
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