After decades of warnings, Climate Change is beginning to bite. Fires, floods, storms and the impacts of sea level rise are becoming the commonplace backdrop of daily life. Yet the collective human response remains muted. Some people, including senior political figures, persist in denying the...
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February 2020
Across different coffee production systems there are multiple interactions and trade-offs between productivity, carbon footprint, biodiversity and resilience. Sustainability certifications such as Organic, Fairtrade and Rainforest Alliance aim to compensate or recognise the investments by...
February 2020
The IES celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with Sheryl Lee, PhD student and Research Assistant at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Throughout this webinar, Sheryl gives an insight into her PhD thesis 'Educational interventions to improve...
February 2020
The National Quality Mark Scheme (NQMS) for Land Contamination Management is a scheme that has been developed by the National Brownfield Forum to provide visible identification of documents that have been checked by a Suitably Qualified Person (SQP).
Seamus Lefroy-Brooks, chair of...
February 2020
Crossrail is delivering a new railway to add 10% to central London’s rail capacity. When complete, the Elizabeth line will offer a high frequency, high capacity service linking 41 stations over 100 kilometers transforming travel in London and the South East.
In this webinar Rob...
January 2020
Bernard Fisher, the newly appointed first President of the IAQM, opens the IAQM 2020 webinar series with a talk about the EMEP (European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme).
In this talk, Bernard presents estimates of the number of premature deaths per year in the UK...
