The outgoing chief of the Government's independent sustainability watchdog, Jonathon Porritt, has criticised the Treasury and Department for Business for a failure to advance the sustainable development agenda
… Sustainability 'undone' by Treasury and BIS, … Porritt Sustainable Development Commission Sustainability Green Bonds RBS Treasury … chief of the Government's independent sustainability watchdog, Jonathon Porritt, has …
Many global fish stocks are on the verge of collapse but, nearer home, Cornish fishermen have found a sustainable way of earning a living.
… Trewin | 1st February 2007 Activism Fishing Sustainability Cornwall Tagging … dolphin-friendly way. The 36-year-old has sustainability written through his core like a … shellfish found around the Cornish coast. ‘Sustainability is the way forward, it has to …
Support Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Big Fish Fight by making sure that the fish you eat is ethically caught and sourced from sustainable fisheries
Top 10… ways to eat fish sustainably Katharine Helmore | 14th January 2011 Ethical Living Fish Conservation Food And Drink Natural World Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall istock_000005365205xsmalledit.jpg …
Lockdown dam development webinars in Himalayan regions have been recruiting fish conservationists as specialist speakers.
Ichthyologists wanted for dam greenwashing Steve Lockett | 6th July 2021 | News Conservation Dams Greenwash hydropower_dam_construction.jpg Lockdown dam development webinars in Himalayan regions have …
To the people of the Faroe Islands the slaughter of pilot whales for food is a sustainable practice. Gavin Haines tries to make sense of this much maligned tradition and struggles to determine where we can and/or should impose a different cultural notion of sustainability on others
… should impose a different cultural notion of sustainability on others Under a brooding sky … questions about my own values. So I talked sustainability with Jennifer, to see if there …
Indigenous Peoples are often the victims of nature conservation, according to a new report by Vicky Tauli-Corpuz presented to the UN this week, as they are expelled from lands they have inhabited for millennia. One reason, she told Joe Eisen, is that indigenous territories are precisely the places where biodiversity is best preserved - thanks to the protective, nurturing presence of their traditional owners.
Vicky Tauli-Corpuz: 'The better protected areas are those where indigenous peoples live!' Joe Eisen Conservation Watch | 19th October 2016 Comment Indigenous Peoples Conservation Un Human Rights …
There's a certain irony that the publication of a new anthology of poems about trees coincided with President Trump's announcement yesterday that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, writes HARRIET GRIFFEY
… been published with the support of the Legal Sustainability Alliance Legal Sustainability Alliance to celebrate the 800 … that have signed up to this. The Legal Sustainability Alliance (LSA) is a network of …
A recently discovered peatland in northeast Peru contains two years worth of US carbon emissions, writes Joe Sandler Clarke, but it's under threat from the rapidly advancing 'palm oil frontier'. Now scientists are calling for the wetland's immediate protection - before it's too late to save it.
… rapidly in Latin America . The industry's sustainability watchdog, the Roundtable on …
We need a renewable energy revolution, an end to fracking, no new nuclear power, efficient homes, and the break up of our energy cartels, writes Jeremy Corbyn, All that, and strong protection for wildlife and oceans, no TTIP trade deal with the US, clean air to breathe, and massive investment in public transport. Is there anything not to like?
… is long overdue. Labour must put policies for sustainability at the heart of everything we …
Environmental groups say nuclear power will create a legacy of waste and undermine the UK's drive towards an economy based on renewable energy
… Friends of the Earth and the Government's own sustainability watchdog said the issue of … door open for GM, says new SDC chief Will Day Sustainability in danger of becoming jargon, …
Already hit by rows over radioactive waste and airport expansion, the London 2012 Olympic Games are accused of degrading green land vital to local communities and wildlife. Tom Antebi reports
… to a ‘greener’ Games. In a statement on sustainability, the Olympic Delivery Authority … is the first summer host city to embed sustainability in its planning from the … who were hoping for a genuine example of sustainability and a response to local needs …
A huge raft of environmental reforms is promised in the Labour Party's draft manifesto, writes Oliver Tickell. Among the highlights: a ban on fracking; a clean energy policy based on renewables and efficiency; no commitment to new nuclear power; to meet our Paris Agreement obligations on climate; to give companies a legal obligation to protect the environment; to retain all EU environment laws post-Brexit; and multilateral nuclear disarmament.
… rights, workers' rights and environmental sustainability in the operations of British …
Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith joins the Sustainable Eel Group to showcase the barriers to eel conservation.
'The greatest wildlife crime on the planet' Staff Reporter | 9th July 2019 News European Eel Eels Eel Trafficking Conservation Zac Goldsmith screenshot_2019-07-08_at_19.48.14.png Conservative MP Zac …
Recognising nature as a legal stakeholder with inalienable rights in environmental law proceedings is a powerful counterbalance to corporate dictatorship, writes Mumta Ito. It empowers people and governments to stand up for nature - the underlying basis of our economy and our lives. And it stands in contrast to feeble approaches based on the financialisation and commodification of nature, which may be twisted to justify more destruction.
… diagram on the left is the usual model for sustainability. The problem with this model is … rights as a systemic solution to support the sustainability transition. We've talked about sustainability for decades - but there is …
The love affair of the 'pro-nuclear greens' with a failed technology has paved the way to the UK's destruction of its renewable energy industry, writes Jonathon Porritt, and to the imminent deal with Chinese parastatal corporations to build a new fleet of already obsolete nuclear power plants at massive cost to us all.
… Bradwell. How can that possibly work from a sustainability point of view, let alone an …
Volunteering holidays aren't just for bored teenagers. As Christine Ottery found out, there are plenty of ways to see the UK and do your bit at the same time
… for charity or learn a little more about sustainability, we've got the volunteering … See www.btcv.org.uk for more information Self-sustainability in Norfolk A new social …
In an exclusive interview Welsh environment minister Jane Davidson tells Tom Levitt why she won't be opposing new nuclear power or selling off any forests... and why she wants to end Westminister's control over renewable energy
… Davidson, Welsh Minister for the Environment, Sustainability and Housing In an exclusive … Welsh Assembly Minister for the Environment, Sustainability and Housing READ MORE... NEWS … Welsh construction centre leads field in sustainability The new Construction and …
Economist Herman E Daly argues that our future depends on a new economic model, one that needs to be defined by the dynamic balance – the steady state – of the natural world upon which it depends.
… economists consider the concept of sustainability to be a fad and trust that we … simply because they did not pay the cost of sustainability. Regulated international trade … among nations that were equally committed to sustainability and to accurate environmental …
Is the aspiration to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2030 - enshrined in the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals - a fairy tale? It's ambitious, writes Richard Pearson, but there are plenty of signs that the world is acting effectively to conserve its endangered habitats and species. With extraordinary effort, we can do it.
Can we halt biodiversity loss in 15 years? Yes we can! Richard Pearson UCL | 12th November 2015 Comment Biodiversity Science Un Conservation coral-reef-cut.jpg Is the aspiration to halt the loss of …