Major expansion of English woodlands announced
The UK government has allocated more than £44m of funding to help treble tree planting rates in England by the end of this parliament and drive net-zero emissions.
Collectively, around 2,300 hectares of trees – equivalent to around 3,220 football pitches – will be planted, with a focus on areas with the lowest woodland cover. The government estimates that the adContinue reading this with an IEMA membership
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New Biodiversity and Natural Capital Member Network
This month, IEMA is launching a member network focusing on biodiversity and natural capital.
Around 26% of the Amazon rainforest has been hit by deforestation and high degradation, according to a report from Amazon Watch. Savannisation is already happening in its south-east – mainly in Brazil and Bolivia, responsible for 90% of its deforestation and degradation.
Isabella Tree talks to Chris Seekings about the amazing success of the Knepp Wildland project, and the vast array of ecosystem services that rewilding can provide for the UK and beyond
The public consultation on the government’s environmental targets framework closed at the end of June. IEMA made a submission, setting out concerns.
On 21 June it was announced that the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) COP 15 – the UN global biodiversity conference – will no longer be held in China, instead taking place in Montreal, Canada from 5–17 December 2022. China will continue to preside over the meetings.
The European Commission has proposed a new Nature Restoration Law with legally-binding targets to restore damaged ecosystems across every member state.
The Broadway Initiative has co-published a new report outlining how the UK can overcome barriers to private investment needed to fill an annual £5.6bn financing gap for nature recovery.
In R. (on the application of Lewis) v Welsh Ministers, following a costs order against the claimant, the claimant applied for a costs limit in accordance with the Aarhus Convention 2001 and the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) 1998/3132.
Tom Pashby talks about why the new Natural History GCSE is such an important step forward for climate and biodiversity preservation
