Tag: NERC

New research will integrate biodiversity and finance

Stuart Mitchell

12 projects have been launched to explore the gaps and improve integration between the financial system and biodiversity. The new projects are part of the first phase of the ‘integrating biodiversity into finance: building a nature-positive future’ initiative and will start in 2023. The longer-term aim is to build a multi-stakeholder community that can drive the development of knowledge, tools and a skilled community to incorporate reporting biodiversity for all business sectors. Embedding biodiversity into finance The purpose is to foster a holistic approach to develop the solutions needed to…

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NERC appoints new UK Freshwater Quality Champions

Stuart Mitchell

The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has appointed Freshwater Quality Champions to lead a new programme that will study water quality of UK rivers. Professor Pippa Chapman and Professor Joseph Holden, both from the University of Leeds, will lead the four-year Understanding changes in quality of UK freshwaters programme. Research funded by the programme will address a significant gap in our understanding of how pollutants enter, transform and interact within rivers, and with the ecosystems that rivers support. Understanding river ecosystems Professor Pippa Chapman is a leading soil scientist and…

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NERC publishes diversity and inclusion ‘living’ action plan

Stuart Mitchell

NERC have published theirr four-year plan to collaborate with academia and partners to improve diversity within UK environmental science, their release is copied below:   This plan for action has been developed to improve diversity, equity and inclusion in under-represented groups across the broad range of roles in the environmental science research community. We are taking action We recognise that there is a lack of diversity within the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and across UK environmental science. This means we are missing the chance for a wide range of…

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New research prompts initiative to accelerate diversity of environmental sector

Stuart Mitchell

Data released by, SOS-UK and its partners, The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA), has revealed that just 4.8% of environment professionals identify as black, asian or minority ethnic, compared with a 12.6% average across all professions.  Despite the efforts of a range of recent initiatives, people of colour remain significantly underrepresented across the environmental sector, according to the new research. Some areas within the environmental sector, such as ‘conservation professionals’ are classified as being 100% white in their makeup, based on the…

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NERC invests £40 million in a green future for the UK

Stuart Mitchell

Scientists will begin work on four studies that will tackle key challenges facing the UK as it adapts to climate change and moves to net zero emissions. Led by the universities of Cambridge, Exeter, Glasgow and Oxford, each team will work to develop solutions to four issues: biodiversity loss achieving net zero cities helping rural communities adapt to climate change providing timely data, analysis and evidence for policy decisions. The four programmes have each received £10 million from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to bring together teams drawing on…

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