Blogposts tagged 'Defra'

New reports question if there are plenty more fish in the sea

Posted by Willie - 4 August 2010 at 10:57am - 3 Comments

Not plenty more where that came from © Greenpeace/Cobb

If you're reading this in the UK, you ran out of fish today.

Basically, the UK eats more fish than its waters produce and, thanks to some nifty fish-counting from the clever folks at NEF, that equates to the 4th of August being the day we use up our year's fish supply. In comparison to the EU as a whole, we fair a month better but then we are a country with quite a lot of seas, certainly in comparison with, er, Austria and Romania. Yet, for almost five full months we are relying on fish from somewhere else. And that might be okay, if there was plenty of it to go around. But of course, as the old saying should go, there aren't plenty more fish in the sea.

Article tagged as: common fisheries policy, DEFRA, fish stocks, marine reserves, oceans, overfishing, seafish

A New Year, and a new position from the UK government on bluefin?

Posted by Willie - 12 January 2010 at 6:36pm - 0 Comments

Well, they may not be shouting about it, but it certainly looks that way. Ironically 2010 has been declared by the UN as 'International Year of Biodiversity', yet alarm bells are ringing for one iconic species already.

In a remarkable contrast from last summer, and autumn, when the UK Government were keen to tell us all how committed they were to saving the bluefin at every possible opportunity, our ministers have gone strangely silent on the issue since the ICCAT meeting in November.

Article tagged as: bluefin, CITES, DEFRA, iccat, tuna

'Divided consumer attitudes' to climate change mirrored by government

Posted by jossc - 18 January 2008 at 5:45pm - 6 Comments

Earlier this week the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) released a report identifying things the public should be doing to limit climate change. Third on the list is to "avoid unnecessary short-haul flights". Apparently we find this hard to do because of "divided consumer attitudes" - ie, we want to have our cake and eat it.

Article tagged as: aviation, climate change, co2 emissions, DEFRA, DFT, heathrow, transport

What's £10 million between friends?

Posted by jamie - 13 October 2006 at 8:00am - 0 Comments

solar.jpg From BBC News earlier today:

A £10m drive to add wind turbines to public sites and to promote renewable energy is being funded by cuts to other green projects, it has been claimed. The Partnership for Renewables scheme will work with private firms to put the turbines on sites such as hospitals. But the Lib Dems and the Energy Saving Trust say money from insulation and double-glazing schemes will pay for it. The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the sum was never allocated to a specific project.

Article tagged as: climate change, david miliband, DEFRA, oil, renewable energy

DEFRA offices blockaded with illegal timber

Posted by admin - 19 October 2005 at 8:00am - 3 Comments

A Greenpeace activist chained to a pallet of illegal rainforest plywood at DEFRA

Shortly after 7.30 this morning, Greenpeace volunteers blockaded the entrance to the Department for the Environment,Food and Rural Affairs DEFRA offices on London's Millbank, in protest at the tonnes of illegal timber continuing to flood into the UK from the world's last rainforests.

Article tagged as: china, DEFRA, forests, FSC, illegal timber, papua new guinea, videos, wolseley builder centers
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