Approved work: Carbon offsetting and carbon payback
This POSTnote will summarise the challenges that have emerged around setting standards for international offsetting and what monitoring is needed to ensure effective mitigation.
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World population (231 KB , PDF)
The human population is growing by nearly 100 million people every year. This is faster than predicted ten years ago, and the UN has had to revise upwards its forecasts of future populations. It now predicts that global population could double or even triple from its current 5,300 million.
This POSTnote examines the underlying trends in global population, the reasons for them, their implications and related issues.
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World population (231 KB , PDF)
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Approved work: Freshwater, floodplain and wetland restoration.
This POSTnote will summarise the evidence base for restoration measures for different freshwater habitat types (complimenting the recent POSTnote and POSTbrief on habitat restoration) and the outcomes for biodiversity and ecosystem service benefits such as natural flood management and water quality.
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Approved work: The impacts and costs of synthetic fertilisers
This POSTnote will summarise the challenges and opportunities for the different approaches for reducing the use of synthetic fertilisers.
