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Sarah Legge
Article
May 2017

environmental SCIENTIST | Time for a new Clean Air Act? | April 2017


There have been many calls recently about the need for a new Clean Air Act (CAA), from a wide range of leading groups in the environment and public health fields. But are they all asking for the same...

Barbara Leach; Richard Swannell
Article
April 2017

environmental SCIENTIST | Feeding the nine billion | February 2017


Around a third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted from the farm to the fork. This huge level of inefficiency has economic, social, and environmental impacts. Food loss and...

Robert Ashcroft
Blog
March 2017

One of the key building blocks in Theresa May’s plans for a successful post-Brexit Britain is the development of a national Industrial Strategy. In the Prime Minister’s Cabinet and Whitehall reshuffle shortly after she took office, departmental boundaries and remits were rearranged, leading to...

Ruth Bergan
Webinars
March 2017

To date, international agreements on trade and climate change have tended to be negotiated in isolation. Yet rules in trade agreements have huge implications for governments’ ability to meet their climate change commitments. The Energy Charter Treaty, a deal which specifically covers investment...

Duane Ager & William Pope
Article
February 2017

Our February 2016 edition of the environmental SCIENTIST Growing in space: Science beyond the biosphere sparked our members’ interest. On a related issue, we recently received a question which we thought was worth exploring in more detail: “Does silicon-based life exist – and if not...

Jonny Hazell
Article
February 2017

environmental SCIENTIST | Quadrophilia: How decentralisation has helped the environment | November 2016


For a subject that is far from the top of the Westminster Government’s in-tray, waste and resources policy has proved a surprisingly hot topic for the Scottish and...

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