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UK Biodiversity Indicators in your Pocket 2013
Posted on: 15 November 2013
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Defra has published this document which reports on UK progress on biodiversity. Alongside this document, Defra has published A strategy for England’s wildlife and ecosystem services, biodiversity 2020 indicators: 2013 assessment, providing a detailed statistical update of 24 indicators that give an overview of biodiversity in England, measuring progress in the delivery of goals and objectives outlined in Biodiversity 2020 published by the government in 2011. All of the 2013 and past biodiversity indicators for the UK are available on the Joint Nature Conservation Committee website.
Public health and landscape:
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The Landscape Institute has launched a position statement on landscape and public health. The publication of the position statement is just a first step in the landscape profession’s intention to work with public health professionals and with policy makers to create a larger number of healthy landscapes. The statement sets out the five principles of healthy places, and spells out in detail what each of those principles means and how to address them, and then uses a number of case studies to illustrate each principle in turn.
Urban Helsinki versus the building and construction industry
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This article reports on recent on documents recently published by Helsinki’s City Planning Department on what the city will look like in 2050 and what are the basic pillars of the new city plan. However, the author argues that one obstacle for realising great neighbourhoods is the construction industry.
Respond: COP 19 Warsaw
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This magazine has been produced by Responding to Climate Change, a news and analysis website focused on providing the latest updates and insight into global low carbon developments, to provide information for the UN climate change negotiations taking place in Warsaw on 11-22 November 2013.
Climate finance can catalyse action
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The Climate and Development Knowledge Network’s Climate and Development Outlook (November 2013) comes to grips with one of the hottest topics for discussion at the 19th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Warsaw, Poland, namely, how developing countries will pay for climate compatible development and how the world can support them.
Addressing the barriers to climate investment
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This guide concludes that understanding barriers related to mitigation and adaptation at the project level is important to identify those projects where investment subsidies will be most efficient.
Climate finance negotiations at COP19 in Warsaw
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This guide provides negotiators with a synopsis of the key climate finance discussions undertaken during 2013 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It aims to inform negotiators and stakeholders who are interested in the different climate finance agenda items and deliverables at the 19th Conference of Parties (COP19) to be held in Warsaw. It assesses possible outcomes in Warsaw that can prepare the way, together with decisions at COP20 in 2014, for the new global agreement on climate change, which will be agreed at the COP in Paris in 2015.
Love thy neighbour: People and place in social reform
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This report from the Institute for Public Policy Research rethinks the legacy and future potential of neighbourhoods policy, and considers what we mean by ‘good neighbourhoods’. It presents evidence of how and why UK neighbourhoods are changing, and what strategies can improve them.
Airport City
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Airport City is a £800m landmark property development, creating a globally connected business destination located at Manchester Airport. This brochure looks at logistics.
Landscapism
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This blog is a forum to bring together, promote and discuss themes, subject matter and marginalia of all kinds relating to landscape, topography and sense of place.
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