Hidden threats to Biodiversity in Local Government
A meeting in Westminster of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Biodiversity (APPG) in September 2014 concluded that the lack of ecological capacity in our local authorities as not only […]
Category Archives: Ecosystem services
Understanding the value of nature
Massive Green Infrastructure along the Servern Estuary brings additional benefits
With sea-level rise threatening more frequent and higher coastal surges a brave and innovative project has been completed that uses ecological infrastructure to protect the land and people of the […]
UN REDD+ and the Green Economy
A new publication by UNEP on developments around REDD+ makes interesting reading. The original Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) proposition emerged from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change […]
Greening the city helps us breath more easily
Recent research on air pollution, published in the BMJ based on long-term data, links an increased risk of heart-attack for 100,000 people in five EU countries to exhaust pollution (see BBC News […]
Storms, Cloudbursts and flooding – learning from Copenhagen
In Denmark the State of Green reports on how city of Copenhagen is rethinking its strategy to sudden storms and the increased risk of flooding exacerbated by the impact of climate […]
Biodiversity digitally recorded from the air
Here is a really great TED talk from Greg Asner on the work of the Carnegie Airborne Observatory programme. This massive computerized sensor system which uses multiple lasers and imaging […]
Project Wild Thing
I wrote previously about the dislocation of children from nature and the risks this brings to their wider development, confidence and self esteem (see Wild child full of grace….). The […]
A global outlook on urbanisation
Stockholm Resilience Center (SRC) have created an interactive version of the report City Biodiversity Outlook 1 which was launched at the CBD COP in Hyderabad in 2012. With a video […]
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