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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GM Crops and Regulation (321 KB , PDF)
Genetically modified (GM) crops have been grown commercially since the mid-1990s. Early concerns focused on their potential impacts on human health and the environment. This note summarises the evidence on such impacts, describes recent technological developments and examines their likely consequences for proposed reforms of GM regulation.
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GM Crops and Regulation (321 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.
