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Posts about reducing and managing the impacts of climate change

Business and communities should plan now for climate change

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As the latest UK Climate Projections are released, the Environment Agency has also published its Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation report. Read Emma Howard Boyd’s foreword below. Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency Climate change is not a …

Engineers and the Environment – natural allies in our fight for a more flood resilient nation

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In January, the Prime Minister launched the Government’s new national 25 year environment plan – quite a moment for those of us who’ve worked our whole careers in the environmental field. While the initial media interest has been in supermarket …

Celebrating marsh and mud on World Wetlands Day

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The Great Fens wetland at sunset

Marsh and mud have often received a bad press. In centuries past, coastal mudflats and marshes were thought of as derelict, even dangerous, places – scenes of criminal escapes and smuggled cargos landed. But over the last few decades, we …

Building a greener future

As I begin my tenure as Chair of the Environment Agency it is now, more than ever, that we need a bold new vision for the environment. Over the last 40 years EU legislation has helped shape and promote improvements …