Apr
Opening CIWEM's Annual Conference on 29 April, the
Institution's President, Alastair Moseley, highlighted the critical
role played by water in the built environment and the coordinated
approach that would be required to find innovative ways to manage
this in the face of climate change.
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WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) has
welcomed its additional £10 million funding announced in the budget
for the development of reprocessing facilities for food waste. The
funding will enable new composting and anaerobic digestion
facilities to be built - processing over 300,000 additional tonnes
of food waste every year. This builds on existing programmes which
have been operating for over five years and will divert more waste
from landfill, create more renewable energy and produce
agricultural products.
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A new £500,000 fund has been launched to help
environmental entrepreneurs and small businesses develop ideas to
generate electricity from the River Severn's tidal
power.
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Hilary Benn, the Secretary of State for Environment; Ed
Miliband, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change; and
Juan Elvira Quesado, the Mexican Secretary for Environment and
Natural Resources; have signed a commitment on sustainable
development and climate change as part of a partnership between
Mexico and the UK.
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Londoners are being asked to hand over their unwanted keys to
help unlock the potential of homeless and disadvantaged people.
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Woodlands, countryside and parks have become out of bounds to a
generation of 'cotton wool kids' with fewer than ten percent
playing in such places, according to new research results revealed
by Natural England. In addition, less than a quarter (24 percent)
of children said they visit a patch of nature near their home on a
weekly basis, compared with over half of adults (53 percent) who
visited a local nature patch weekly when they were young.
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Nine schools in Berlin are in the process of turning
their roofs into a solar park. Photovoltaic cells will be installed
on 14 roofs, producing about one million kilowatts of electricity
each year. Enough to supply 220 four-person
households.
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Actions needed to help Europeans cope with the changing climate
have been outlined in the newly published European Commission White
Paper. The framework presented by the Commission sets out a
two-phase strategic approach to adapting to the impacts of climate
change.
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