Further to the above successful petition, I'm unsurprised to see Boris's anti-newt policy coming forward from the Government who promised to enshrine their environmental protection targets:
This policy allows you to kill EPS
and destroy their habitat without needing to exclude or relocate
individual animals. You’ll need to show Natural England that your
proposal ensures all of the following:
I understand that this policy is intended to extend and enhance habitats that are lost to development but killing European Protected Species while promising to give them a new home afterwards seems ridiculous. I also work in this sector and wildlife enhancement is rarely monitored for long enough and resources to enforce the promises of mitigation are slim at best and non-existent in some places. How many large scale projects have we seen where the money runs out at the end and the taxpayer is left to foot the bill for restoration?
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Further to the enshrined environmental targets that were promised, the government has now decided to 'pause' reporting on biodiversity indicators while a review of new targets is carried out. Under pressure they agreed to release the better ones though.
Have you read 'Breaking Boundaries', @wild edges? We're coming to the conclusion here that planetary boundaries may be the most meaningful set of criteria to use to avoid unintended consequences
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Have you read 'Breaking Boundaries', @wild edges? We're coming to the conclusion here that planetary boundaries may be the most meaningful set of criteria to use to avoid unintended consequences
I've just been looking at the website. My optimism is limited though. Russian and Chinese mega trawlers keep 'accidentally' fishing in marine conservation zones with no consequences, people in the USA are still pumping out three times the CO2 of a person in this country (and we're bad enough anyway), politics everywhere is a total divisive mess. The USA have just admitted they're about a billion trees behind on their planting plans. Even the Welsh ban on single-use plastics is inexplicably stuck in parliament with no sign of progress. I just don't see any targets for anything being met in any meaningful way when saving the planet seems to be political suicide.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Don't disagree with either of you but am still going to keep trying.
The planetary boundaries thing is less about hoping for Something to be Done and more about understanding whether advice we give is responsible relative to issues that we don't advise on. We are energy specialists and can talk about carbon as a consequence of the use of energy. We have a very clear understanding of the issue of carbon budgets, something which seems largely absent from the public discourse on the subject of net zero. But Carbon budgets are not the only budgets that relate to the environmental crises - and we, as energy specialists, don't necessarily understand the biodiversity context, even though we are well aware of the biodiversity collapse. The UN SDGs have been adopted quite widely as a set of targets, but they seem to be misaligned with finite resource constraints, so we are beginning to look at the planetary boundary concept instead.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I've just been looking at the website. My optimism is limited though. Russian and Chinese mega trawlers keep 'accidentally' fishing in marine conservation zones with no consequences,
Here (Denmark) it's Dutch trawlers they keep catching in the protected areas, I suspect that all countries do it, after all money is all that matters.
If govts were vaguely committed they would all agree a total moratorium from tomorrow on space travel beyond earth’s orbit. We urgently need earth budgets spent here to solve the world of crises.
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I understand that this policy is intended to extend and enhance habitats that are lost to development but killing European Protected Species while promising to give them a new home afterwards seems ridiculous. I also work in this sector and wildlife enhancement is rarely monitored for long enough and resources to enforce the promises of mitigation are slim at best and non-existent in some places. How many large scale projects have we seen where the money runs out at the end and the taxpayer is left to foot the bill for restoration?
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
The planetary boundaries thing is less about hoping for Something to be Done and more about understanding whether advice we give is responsible relative to issues that we don't advise on. We are energy specialists and can talk about carbon as a consequence of the use of energy. We have a very clear understanding of the issue of carbon budgets, something which seems largely absent from the public discourse on the subject of net zero. But Carbon budgets are not the only budgets that relate to the environmental crises - and we, as energy specialists, don't necessarily understand the biodiversity context, even though we are well aware of the biodiversity collapse. The UN SDGs have been adopted quite widely as a set of targets, but they seem to be misaligned with finite resource constraints, so we are beginning to look at the planetary boundary concept instead.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Here (Denmark) it's Dutch trawlers they keep catching in the protected areas, I suspect that all countries do it, after all money is all that matters.