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Environment Journal reports on best practice and key issues in sustainability, net zero, nature restoration and biodiversity across public and private sectors.

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The UK Chancellor just unveiled the first fiscal plan of Andy Burnham’s premiership, under extremely tight financial pressures, with mixed responses. #autumnbudget #budget #renewables #energy environmentjournal.online/fe…
Autumn Budget: energy payments, standing charges, Biodiversity Net Gain exemption

Autumn Budget: energy payments, standing charges, Biodiversity Net Gain exemption

The Chancellor just unveiled the first fiscal plan of Andy Burnham’s premiership, under extremely tight financial pressures, with mixed responses.  The headline news from John Healey’s Autumn Budget...

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Infrastructure and housing to trigger 70% rise in #construction demand by 2050. So what does this mean for carbon #emissions, #concrete and the urgent need to bring more sustainable materials to market? environmentjournal.online/he…
Infrastructure and housing to trigger 70% rise in construction demand

Infrastructure and housing to trigger 70% rise in construction demand

By our century’s halfway point, there could be three-quarters more major construction projects worldwide, raising serious concerns about environmental impact and the speed at which sustainable...

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European fishing boats are hiding activity in the Indian Ocean, at great cost to the environment and coastal communities. @Bluemarinef environmentjournal.online/he…
European fishing boats are hiding activity in the Indian Ocean

European fishing boats are hiding activity in the Indian Ocean

A damning new report has exposed deliberate attempts to mask the identity of vessels, at great cost to the environment and coastal communities.  Published by the Blue Marine Foundation and written by...

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A new analysis has found the Conservative Party’s  claims about the cost of net zero have been wildly inflated due to a spreadsheet error. #energy #netzero environmentjournal.online/he…
Tories double estimated net zero cost in spreadsheet error

Tories double estimated net zero cost in spreadsheet error

The Conservative Party’s  claims of being fiscally responsible ring less true after its ‘common sense’ Right Way policy document was found to be based on old numbers and poor use of a simple app. ...

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Flying elephants may seem like a storyline limited to Disney’s Dumbo. But with modern technologies aiding global #conservation initiatives, it’s becoming increasingly common to translocate major species by such means. Read @ianMpackham's new piece: environmentjournal.online/he…
Is it ever too late to rescue our wild spaces?

Is it ever too late to rescue our wild spaces?

Flying elephants may seem like a storyline limited to Disney’s Dumbo. But with modern technologies aiding global conservation initiatives, it’s becoming increasingly common to translocate major...

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The @LondonNPC Festival returns this weekend. Want to know what it would be like if we treated towns like nature reserves? 👇 #environment #biodiversity #nature #london #festivals 👇 environmentjournal.online/he…
What happens if we treat cities like National Parks?

What happens if we treat cities like National Parks?

This weekend one of the most thought-proving urban environmental movements returns to London for its annual programme of talks, walks, and hands-on workshops. A change of perspective sits at the...

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The ReVault system by @Arup reuses concrete for structural components in #construction projects — cutting embodied #carbon by 70%. Just one example of a new remanufacturing system being pioneered in the UK and Europe. environmentjournal.online/wa…
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Nature must be at the heart of proposals to improve England’s waterways, according to a major new assessment that sets out how communities can benefit when wildlife recovery efforts are joined up at scale. @WildlifeTrusts environmentjournal.online/po…
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A teenage undergraduate in Scotland may have solved the AI energy problem. Efficient neurocomputing chip design significantly cuts power usage, and the need for large infrastructure connectivity. #ai #energy #computing environmentjournal.online/he…
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China has published over 70 five year plans for #climate and #energy so far this year. Claims the country is a net zero saviour miss the big picture. But anyone arguing decarbonisation is futile because of Chinese emissions isn't looking properly. environmentjournal.online/he…
The truth about how seriously China is now taking climate change

The truth about how seriously China is now taking climate change

The world’s second largest economy has unveiled a raft of five year plans in 2026. It’s becoming impossible to deny that Western climate policy needs to keep up.  There have long been two arguments...

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Globally, 2.1 billion people cannot drink safely. Britain is dealing with dangerously low reservoir levels. 2027 is predicted to be even worse. But the UK still seems unaware the world is running out of #water. environmentjournal.online/wa…
UK still unaware the world is running out of water

UK still unaware the world is running out of water

2.1 billion people do not have access to safe drinking supplies. Britain is currently dealing with dangerously low reservoir and aquifer levels. 2027 is predicted to bring about more heatwaves and...

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Bonfire of the... environmental regulation and regulators. @Conservatives #netzero #environment #Climate #generalelection environmentjournal.online/he…
Tories would slash and burn Environment Agency, Natural England, net zero

Tories would slash and burn Environment Agency, Natural England, net zero

Environmental rules around new homes and packing would also be in the wood-chipper if a party that oversaw one of the biggest ever declines in UK living standards gets its way. The Conservative Party...

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Some of the planet’s most polluted and economically disenfranchised places are missing out on money to #airpollution. @CleanAirFund #nepal #pakistan #myanmar #cameroon #congo #pollution #airquality environmentjournal.online/po…
Funding to tackle dirty air doesn’t reach world’s poorest

Funding to tackle dirty air doesn’t reach world’s poorest

New research has revealed some of the planet’s most polluted and economically disenfranchised places are missing out on money to reduce atmospheric toxicity.  Published by Clean Air Fund, the...

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World leaders must turn years of promises to support vulnerable Pacific nations into concrete action on #climate change. @amnesty #cop31 environmentjournal.online/he…
Amnesty demands action on Pacific climate crisis

Amnesty demands action on Pacific climate crisis

World leaders must turn years of promises to support vulnerable Pacific nations into concrete action on climate change, Amnesty International has said ahead of Pre-COP31 meetings in Fiji and Tuvalu....

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The Society of Wildlife Artists annual exhibition opens @mallgalleries in London today. The people behind the brushstrokes share stories of working in the wild, and the nature that inspired them. @swlanaturaleye #art #nature #environment environmentjournal.online/he…
Six artists share stories of wildlife encounters that inspired their work

Six artists share stories of wildlife encounters that inspired their work

As the Society of Wildlife Artists’ annual exhibition opens, we invite the people behind the brushstrokes to recount their experiences in nature.  On Thursday 1st October, London’s historic Mall...

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Contrary to free market-thinkers and trickle-down economists, corporations have shown themselves incapable of managing essential services. @UKLabour's GB Grid emphasises private sector utilities failure. Our latest long read. #EnergyPolicy environmentjournal.online/he…
Burnham’s publicly-owned grid firm emphasises private sector utilities failure

Burnham’s publicly-owned grid firm emphasises private sector utilities failure

Contrary to free market-thinkers and trickle-down economists, corporations have shown themselves incapable of effectively managing essential services.  The issue of nationalising Britain’s utilities...

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More bad news for @thameswater, as supply to 15,000 homes fail, alongside schools and businesses, due to a burst mains. 750 litres of #water was being lost per second yesterday. At a time when many areas of the UK remain in drought conditions. environmentjournal.online/wa…
Thames Water leak knocks out supply to 15,000 homes, closes schools

Thames Water leak knocks out supply to 15,000 homes, closes schools

The latest major scandal to hit the company follows widespread criticism of plans to change the board of directors to help secure a bailout. A burst water main owned by Thames Water has been leaking...

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Donald Trump has confirmed new rules in the US which will make cars less fuel efficient. Here's why that matters for everyone on the planet. #carbon #emissions #automobile environmentjournal.online/po…
Donald Trump confirms new rules to make cars less fuel efficient

Donald Trump confirms new rules to make cars less fuel efficient

Just when you thought the US President couldn’t be any more negligent towards the environment. The US Department of Transportation has announced plans to reduce fuel efficiency requirements for...

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Not all warming is equal. A new study has mapped where and when climate change sped up. #environment #climatecrisis environmentjournal.online/he…
Not all warming is equal: Study maps where and when climate change sped up

Not all warming is equal: Study maps where and when climate change sped up

While scientists continue to debate whether the planet’s overall warming rate is accelerating, a new study takes a different approach by zooming in on the regional level to identify where warming has...

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Drought-ravaged Britain must decentralise water treatment. Strong message here in our latest long read... direct from the Arabian Peninsula, one of the world's most water-scarce regions. #water #drought #climate @KAUST_News environmentjournal.online/wa…
Waste no drop: drought ravaged Britain must decentralise water treatment

Waste no drop: drought ravaged Britain must decentralise water treatment

When looking for lessons in how to make every litre of H20 count, you could do far worse than the Arabian Peninsula’s desert states.  I don’t blame people for thinking that water scarcity is a...

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