Guidance aims to help save Scotland’s designed
landscapes
Environment & Climate Change Minister, Stewart
Stevenson, today visited Dunkeld’s storm damaged Cathedral
Grove to see how recently published guidance from Forestry Commission
Scotland can help restore this designed landscape.
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) today
launches a report with detailed new maps showing that 55 per cent
of England’s countryside could be at increased risk from development
as a consequence of the Government’s reforms of the planning
system.
Britain is building more wind turbines this year
than ever before with almost 800 turbines due to start spinning
across the countryside and around the coast over the next 12 months.
Rare Irrawaddy dolphins found in Indonesian waters
Vulnerable Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris)
have been discovered for the first time in West Kalimantan, a part
of Indonesian Borneo that best known for its dense tropical forests
and rich wildlife.
One of the first indications that change was afoot
in Myanmar came when President Thein Sein announced last year the
suspension of the China-backed, US$3.6 billion Myitsone dam slated
for the country's remote Kachin state.
New Zealand Storm-petrel Oceanites maorianus
was presumed extinct until its rediscovery by bird watchers in New
Zealand’s Hauraki Gulf Marine Park in 2003.
EU proposals to impose a three-year deadline on local
authorities to issue construction permits for new power lines has
met with sharp opposition in the 27-country bloc, EurActiv has learned.
UK greenhouse gas rise exceeds expectations on 2010
recovery
The UK has been pumping out more greenhouses gases
(GHG) than previously thought, according to new government figures
confirming emissions rose 3.1 per cent between 2009 and 2010.
KPMG refuses to publish controversial green energy
report
KPMG is refusing to publish the full findings of
a controversial study examining the cost of the government's green
energy policies, which was originally used as a basis for a series
of media reports attacking the cost of renewable energy.
EU says it won't back down in airline emissions row
The European Commission stood by its position in
an ongoing dispute with China over plans to charge airlines flying
to Europe for their carbon emissions, raising the stakes ahead of
an EU-China summit in Beijing next week.
Political discourse driving public opinion on climate,
report finds
U.S. opinion on climate change over the last decade
has been affected more by the discourse of political leaders than
by media reports about global warming or extreme weather events,
according to a new study.
Climate change impacts – from worsening droughts
to new pots of climate-related cash for fragile states – may
turn out to be a catalyst for worsening conflict.
Bill Gates backs climate scientists lobbying for
large-scale geoengineering
A small group of leading climate scientists, financially
supported by billionaires including Bill Gates, are lobbying governments
and international bodies to back experiments into manipulating the
climate on a global scale to avoid catastrophic climate change.
