Articles from Transform May 2018
Renewable energy meets 100% of Portugal’s electricity demand
4th May 2018
Portugal’s renewable energy production exceeded its electricity consumption in March this year, according to data from the country’s transmission syst...
Sustainability reporting: value in virtue
4th May 2018
The drive for companies to be more transparent about, and accountable for, their impacts is growing. Increasingly, governments are developing mandator...
A sketchy diagnosis
4th May 2018
The title of the latest report from the UK chief medical officer is ‘Health Impacts of All Pollution – What Do We Know?’. As it turns out, it seems we...
Divided loyalties: Interview with John Gummer
4th May 2018
Chairman of the Committee on Climate Change John Gummer (Lord Deben) talks to Chris Seekings about Brexit and the UK’s role as an environmental leader...
Scientists develop plastic-eating enzyme
4th May 2018
Scientists have accidentally engineered an enzyme that can digest some of the most common plastics littering the environment, providing a potentially ...
New Zealand bans offshore oil and gas exploration
4th May 2018
New Zealand’s recently elected coalition government has announced a ban on all new offshore oil and gas exploration after seven years of growing publi...
Rocky resource comes to light
1st May 2018
A groundbreaking study has found that 26% of nitrogen in natural ecosystems is sourced from rocks, shedding light on the mysterious gap in gas levels ...
Connect: social and community news from IEMA
1st May 2018
Quickfire quiz: Tony Juniper CBE
1st May 2018
WWF’s executive director for advocacy and campaigns talks exclusively to TRANSFORM about protecting biodiversity and environmental awareness in societ...
Shades of green: financial standards
1st May 2018
Deciding whether a project is environmentally friendly can be tricky, but an initiative on green financial standards could facilitate the process, wri...
Use your influence at this month's Royal Charter EGM
1st May 2018
With the crucial vote to progress IEMA's journey towards chartership less than two weeks away, members are powering up to influence the biggest-ever ...
Insurance: A bigger splash
1st May 2018
The part insurers play in paying claims for financial loss is well known, but increasingly they are taking on a wider role in response to climate chan...
Channelling the charge: making change happen
1st May 2018
IEMA has one of the more powerful communities on earth dedicated to protecting and enhancing the environment.
UK government unlikely to deliver 'green Brexit', report finds
1st May 2018
Regulatory gaps post-Brexit could lead to ‘zombification’ of environmental policy in the UK, with no system of governance in place to enforce EU laws ...
Deposit scheme to crack down on plastic pollution
1st May 2018
The fight against plastic pollution – spurred by the spotlight on ocean pollution in the television series Blue Planet II – has taken a positive turn....
Case law: SPS decision quashed as judge finds no evidence that an act or omission attributable to Stody Estate caused breach
1st May 2018
A decision regarding the single farm payment scheme (SPS) has been quashed in the case of Stody Estate Ltd v Secretary of State for Environment, Food ...
In court: Anglian Water agrees to a £50,000 enforcement undertaking
1st May 2018
Pollution: Water company Anglian Water is to pay £50,000 to an environmental charity, after a manhole overflowed with black sludge and grey liquid in...
Biofuel targets to clean up UK transport
1st May 2018
The use of renewable fuels in Britain’s transport sector will double over the next 15 years as a result of tough biofuel targets that came into effect...
Climate change inequality identified in the Commonwealth
1st May 2018
The Commonwealth’s poorer nations are doing more than their fair share to tackle climate change, while richer nations like the UK and Canada fail to d...
Climate change poses growing threat to bee population
1st May 2018
Increasingly frequent and intense droughts will add to a long list of climate-change-induced perils threatening the survival of bees across the world,...
Atlantic current at its weakest in 1,600 years
1st May 2018
