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  • Delivering Brownfield Redevelopment in a Down Turn
    This IEMA event was hosted by Brighton University and gave an interesting and exciting insight into issues surrounding contaminated land. There were 5 speakers who talked about a variety of issues from new technologies and sustainable developments to coping in an economic down turn.
  • New Figures Show 28% Increase in the use of formal environmental management systems in the UK
    Research by the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA)[1] shows a 28% increase over the last 2 years in the use of formal environmental management systems by organisations in the UK.
  • Climate Change Adaptation Workshop
    Climate Change Adaptation - a developing agenda where environment and sustainability professionals can make an important contribution either directly, or in combination with colleagues working on risk management or business continuity. This workshop was an event for practitioners who are active in this field and/or whose organisations are factoring climatic change into their future planning and risk management.
  • Whale's swim the longest
    A humpback whale has travelled the longest distance recorded for any mammal, swimming across nearly a quarter of the globe between two breeding grounds.
  • Carbon trading likely to develop regionally
    Huge investments in green technology in Asia and steps toward domestic emissions trading are opening up the prospect of regional carbon trading, climate change experts in Asia have said.
  • Tropics in decline as natural resources exhausted at alarming rate
    New analysis shows populations of tropical species are plummeting and humanity’s demands on natural resources are sky-rocketing to 50% more than the earth can sustain, reveals the 2010 edition of WWF’s Living Planet Report – the leading survey of the planet’s health.
  • Google invests in $5bn wind-power superhighway
    Google is extending its investment in green technology with a $5bn (£3.2bn) programme to build an undersea, wind energy transmission backbone along 350 miles of the Atlantic seaboard.
  • Rich countries must live up to pledge to help developing world on climate change
    United Nations officials have called on industrialised countries to live up to their multi-billion dollar pledges to help the developing world adapt to climate change at a week-long meeting of several hundred African experts, including Government ministers, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  • Camera catches bulldozer destroying Sumatra tiger forest
    A video camera trap installed by WWF and partners has captured footage linking the destruction of a crucial Sumatran tiger forest to the expansion of palm oil plantations in Indonesia’s Riau Province.
  • New species of fish discovered in ocean's deepest depths
    A new species has been discovered in a part of the ocean previously thought to be entirely free of fish, scientists said.

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