Jul. 05 2024
Source Page: Water, wastewater and drainage: consultation analysisFound: Climate change is affecting Scotland’s water resources with increasing frequency and intensity of droughts
Jun. 19 2024
Source Page: Defence Infrastructure Organisation estate and sustainable developmentFound: exacerbate existing problems for people in regions that are especially vulnerable to change; flooding; droughts
Jun. 17 2024
Source Page: Contribution to international development: report 2021 to 2023Found: Horn of Africa Hunger Crisis The driest conditions in 40 years and an unprecedented four consecutive droughts
May. 30 2024
Source Page: I. Documents held by the Atomic Weapons Establishment relating to nuclear test veterans: includes technical reports, Government correspondence relating to the need to carry out precautionary testing, correspondence between the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) and the Veterans Agency relating to nuclear test veterans’ claims, an AWRE health and safety report, an aircraft decontamination report, a limited amount of blood and urine test data from a small number of personnel [redacted] (151 docs). II. Letter dated 20/05/2024 from Andrew Murrison MP to Rebecca Long Bailey MP and John Hayes MP regarding the declassification and publication on gov.uk of documents held by the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) relating to nuclear test veterans. II.Found: ---Well, I have been watching kangaroos in droughts .-.andbig droughts, too - when I was in the railways
Mentions:
1: None declares continued deforestation of the Amazon is contributing to the forest’s inability to recover from droughts - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the environmental impact of pollution in Lake Windermere.
Answered by Lord Douglas-Miller
A thorough investigation by the Environment Agency (EA) into the pollution incident at Lake Windermere earlier this year remains ongoing, which involves examining further evidence from United Utilities (UU). If the EA determines a permit breach has taken place, it will not hesitate to take enforcement action up to and including a criminal prosecution.
Windermere is affected by pollution from a range of different sources, including sewage discharges from water company assets, private septic tanks/sewage works and road and agricultural run-off, as well as physical modifications. Climate change has also altered temperature, precipitation and weather patterns which can affect the lake's water quality, by altering nutrient cycles, water chemistry and aquatic habitats, and affect the amount of water resulting in droughts and floods.
The last Water Framework Directive full water body classification results in 2019 assessed that Lake Windermere achieved moderate ecologic status and is impacted by excessive nutrients, leading to algal growth and cyanobacterial blooms.
Recent data shows a 30% reduction in phosphorus – which can lead to algal blooms – entering the lake since 2020 and this reduction is predominantly due to EA-driven improvements to UU Wastewater Treatment Works.
Water quality modelling continues to quantify the different sources of pollution in Windermere and the impact that it is having in different parts of the lake. The EA is also working with the Love Windermere partnership to improve the overall health of the lake through behavioural and societal change.
May. 23 2024
Source Page: Integrating greenhouse gas removals in the UK Emissions Trading SchemeFound: While summer droughts have impacted on the growth and condition of UK forests in the past, they have
Mentions:
1: None declares continued deforestation of the Amazon is contributing to the forest’s inability to recover from droughts - Speech Link
May. 23 2024
Source Page: Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme: progress report 2023 to 2024Found: climate and our Farm Advisory Service advises on climate risks like water scarcity and resilience to both droughts
Asked by: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the increasing level of hunger and disease in Latin America due to extreme climate conditions.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
The UK remains alert to increasing health risks in Latin America due to exposure to heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and severe flooding, as well as rising food insecurity and malnutrition. These extreme conditions are affecting the geographical distribution of infectious diseases, with climate suitability for dengue transmission reaching its highest level in recent years. The FCDO helps countries in the region address these challenges by exchanging knowledge and expertise and through our contributions to the Start Fund for humanitarian response.