Image Resources Our extensive research library contains thousands of summaries of journal articles, reports and news stories that can be searched by keyword and category RESOURCES CATEGORYBooksBriefing paperEvent recordingFeatured articlesFeatured reportGameJournal articlesNews and resourcesReportsThink pieceVideoWorking paperWorkshop summary YEAR201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Resource Encouraging greener living in the UK DEFRA has published a framework to encourage environmentally friendly behaviour among individuals and communities. The report pulls together evidence on public understanding, attitudes and behaviours and draws conclusions on the potential for behaviour change among members of the public. It identifies 12 headline behaviour goals based on a range of low/high impact and easy/hard behaviours which could potentially engage large numbers of people and others which would be more appropriate for targeting particular population groups. These are: use more efficient vehicles Read Resource Impact of climate change on the marine environment The Marine Climate Impacts Partnership has published its latest annual report card. The report card aims to address/summarise the following: What is the current state of scientific understanding of marine climate change in our oceans and seas? What changes have been observed and what could happen in the future? How much of this is hard fact and how much is interpretation? A few key observations are as follows: Read Resource Climate change: the cost of inaction and the cost of adaptation Read Resource $100 a Barrel of Oil: Impacts on the sustainability of food supply in the UK Published by the Sustainable Development Commission, a new study undertaken by ADAS, starting with the premise that oil prices reach $100/barrel of oil, explores: The direct impact of increased energy prices upon UK farm businesses, with consideration to the potential for a change in farm practice. The wider impact of increased energy prices on the UK food supply chain, and hence the competitiveness of the UK agricultural industry. This report makes the following key findings: Read Resource Can crops be climate-proofed? Read Image Resource A European drive to run vehicles on biofuels to be reviewed A European drive to run vehicles on biofuels instead of petrol and diesel to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to be reviewed after concerns about its environmental impact. Read Resource Cool Farming: Climate impacts of agriculture and mitigation potential This report, published by Greenpeace International was written by researchers from the University of Aberdeen. It puts agriculture's global contribution to GHG emissions at 17 and 32% of all human-induced GHG emissions, including land use changes. However, it also says that agriculture has a significant climate change mitigation potential, which could change the position of agriculture from the second largest emitter to a much smaller emitter or even a net sink. Mitigation options fall into the following categories: Cropland management Grazing management Read Resource Swiss retailer goes for carbon labelling Read Resource Can Britain Feed Itself? Written by Simon Fairlie (editor of The Land magazine, and head of Chapter 7, an organization providing lobbying and planning advice for smallholders, caravan and shack dwellers and similar low income rural people) and taking as its starting point a short book written by the Scottish ecologist Kenneth Mellanby in 1975 called Can Britain Feed Itself? (Mellanby’s answer was yes, if we eat less meat.) this article points out the way Mellanby worked it out ‘was simple, almost a back of the envelope job, but it provides a useful template for making similar calculati Read VIEW MORE
Resource Encouraging greener living in the UK DEFRA has published a framework to encourage environmentally friendly behaviour among individuals and communities. The report pulls together evidence on public understanding, attitudes and behaviours and draws conclusions on the potential for behaviour change among members of the public. It identifies 12 headline behaviour goals based on a range of low/high impact and easy/hard behaviours which could potentially engage large numbers of people and others which would be more appropriate for targeting particular population groups. These are: use more efficient vehicles Read
Resource Impact of climate change on the marine environment The Marine Climate Impacts Partnership has published its latest annual report card. The report card aims to address/summarise the following: What is the current state of scientific understanding of marine climate change in our oceans and seas? What changes have been observed and what could happen in the future? How much of this is hard fact and how much is interpretation? A few key observations are as follows: Read
Resource $100 a Barrel of Oil: Impacts on the sustainability of food supply in the UK Published by the Sustainable Development Commission, a new study undertaken by ADAS, starting with the premise that oil prices reach $100/barrel of oil, explores: The direct impact of increased energy prices upon UK farm businesses, with consideration to the potential for a change in farm practice. The wider impact of increased energy prices on the UK food supply chain, and hence the competitiveness of the UK agricultural industry. This report makes the following key findings: Read
Image Resource A European drive to run vehicles on biofuels to be reviewed A European drive to run vehicles on biofuels instead of petrol and diesel to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to be reviewed after concerns about its environmental impact. Read
Resource Cool Farming: Climate impacts of agriculture and mitigation potential This report, published by Greenpeace International was written by researchers from the University of Aberdeen. It puts agriculture's global contribution to GHG emissions at 17 and 32% of all human-induced GHG emissions, including land use changes. However, it also says that agriculture has a significant climate change mitigation potential, which could change the position of agriculture from the second largest emitter to a much smaller emitter or even a net sink. Mitigation options fall into the following categories: Cropland management Grazing management Read
Resource Can Britain Feed Itself? Written by Simon Fairlie (editor of The Land magazine, and head of Chapter 7, an organization providing lobbying and planning advice for smallholders, caravan and shack dwellers and similar low income rural people) and taking as its starting point a short book written by the Scottish ecologist Kenneth Mellanby in 1975 called Can Britain Feed Itself? (Mellanby’s answer was yes, if we eat less meat.) this article points out the way Mellanby worked it out ‘was simple, almost a back of the envelope job, but it provides a useful template for making similar calculati Read
