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Environment

  • Horizon scanning

    Balancing competing land uses: a multifunctional approach

    Friday, 01 November, 2024

    How can a land use framework best address food security, climate mitigation and adaptation, and nature recovery challenges within England’s finite land area.

    • Horizon scanning
    • Environment
  • Horizon scanning

    Biodiversity loss and nature recovery

    Monday, 07 October, 2024

    Meeting legally binding targets for reversing biodiversity loss would require a range of challenges to be addressed but would also provide societal benefits.

    • Horizon scanning
    • Environment
  • POSTnote

    Biodiversity net gain

    Monday, 02 September, 2024

    This POSTnote outlines the mandatory biodiversity net gain policy introduced in England in 2024 and the risks and challenges for delivering its objectives.

    • POSTnote
    • Environment
    • Transport and infrastructure
  • POSTnote

    Enhanced rock weathering: Potential UK greenhouse gas removal

    Thursday, 15 August, 2024

    This POSTnote outlines the benefits and challenges of using enhanced rock weathering as a GGR approach for addressing emissions from UK hard-to-abate sectors.

    • POSTnote
    • Environment
    • Food security
  • POSTbrief

    Automated vehicles

    Friday, 02 August, 2024

    This POSTbrief explains what automated vehicles are and how they work. It outlines developments in the UK, benefits and concerns and policy considerations.

    • POSTbrief
    • Digital technologies
    • Energy
    • Environment
    • Transport and infrastructure
  • POSTnote

    Reducing plastic waste

    Wednesday, 31 July, 2024

    A POSTnote summarising what changes in approaches to UK plastic waste management maybe required if ambitious internationally legally binding targets are agreed.

    • POSTnote
    • Environment
    • Food security
    • Transport and infrastructure
  • POSTbrief

    Food Waste

    Wednesday, 17 July, 2024

    This POSTbrief assesses interventions to prevent edible food waste, which contributes GHG emissions throughout its lifecycle from production to disposal.

    • POSTbrief
    • Environment
    • Food security
    • Transport and infrastructure
  • POSTnote

    Public health impacts of heat

    Thursday, 23 May, 2024

    This POSTnote summarises the effects of heat on public health. It describes risk factors that make some people more likely to experience health impacts, outlines current policies and stakeholder perspectives.

    • POSTnote
    • Environment
    • Health and social care
  • POSTnote

    Wildfire risks to UK landscapes

    Monday, 15 April, 2024

    This POSTnote summarises wildfire threats and management in the UK, and outlines options for increasing the resilience of UK landscapes and habitats to wildfire.

    • POSTnote
    • Environment
    • Food security
    • Security and defence
  • POSTnote

    Demand side response: A tool for lowering household energy bills

    Tuesday, 20 February, 2024

    This POSTnote summarises the developments in demand side response, evidence of its potential contribution to the decarbonisation of the power system, and the technical barriers associated to this tool.

    • POSTnote
    • Digital technologies
    • Energy
    • Environment
    • Health and social care
    • Transport and infrastructure
  • POSTnote

    Enabling green choices for net zero

    Monday, 19 February, 2024

    This POSTnote summarises the challenges and options for enabling and encouraging of low-carbon actions by individuals in sectors with the highest emissions.

    • POSTnote
    • Digital technologies
    • Energy
    • Environment
    • Food security
  • POSTnote

    Carbon offsetting

    Wednesday, 24 January, 2024

    This POSTnote summarises the challenges affecting the integrity of carbon credits traded on voluntary carbon markets and outlines options for addressing these.

    • POSTnote
    • Energy
    • Environment
  • POSTnote

    Green skills for education and employment

    Friday, 19 January, 2024

    This briefing outlines what green skills are, why they are important for net zero, challenges and opportunities for skills development and related policy issues.

    • POSTnote
    • Digital technologies
    • Education
    • Energy
    • Environment
    • Food security
    • Health and social care
    • Transport and infrastructure
  • POSTnote

    The future of fertiliser use

    Thursday, 18 January, 2024

    This POSTnote summarises environmental and economic concerns arising from fertiliser use and the mitigation opportunities via diversification and innovation.

    • POSTnote
    • Environment
    • Food security
  • POSTnote

    Freshwater habitat restoration

    Wednesday, 17 January, 2024

    This briefing outlines the evidence relating to the restoration of freshwater habitats in the UK and the key challenges to delivering this.

    • POSTnote
    • Energy
    • Environment
    • Transport and infrastructure

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