Measuring Shoreline Retreat with Earth Observation Satellites - 06/04/2021
Climate change is having an undeniable influence on coastal areas. A substantial proportion of the world’s sandy coastlines are already eroding owing to increased storm surges, flooding and sea level rise. With our coastal environments in constant change, Earth observation satellites are being used to better strengthen our knowledge of changing coastlines.
For decades, coastal areas have been subject to intense urbanization and population growth. The European Union coastline is approximately 68,000 km long, more than three times longer than that of the United States. According to the European Environment Agency, almost half of the EU population lives less than 50 km from the sea, with the seaside being Europe’s most popular holiday destination.
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Tomas Vail is an arbitration lawyer and leader of Vail Dispute Resolution
Critiques of the ECT portray the investment mechanism of the ECT as being in conflict with a state’s ability to achieve its climate change targets.
This is a false dichotomy. Moreover, such critiques ascribe no agency to the state. They ignore the fact that states drafted, negotiated and voluntarily entered into the ECT and consented to its arbitration provisions. They ignore the fact that states can, and do, undermine their own regulatory frameworks to the detriment of both investors and climate change targets.
The contention is that states are unable to implement climate change policies because the ECT allows investors to protect their fossil fuel investments.
RepescaPlas wants to achieve products frommarine litte
After closing its third year with the collection of 4.2 tonnes of marine litter and excellent results in terms of recovery of this litter through chemical recycling, the RepescaPlas project has entered its fourth phase, in which it is expected to strengthen the industrial-scale management and treatment of marine litter.
25.02.2021
The RepescaPlas project has ended its third year with a total of 4,218 kg of marine litter recovered from the ports of Marín in Galicia, La Restinga in El Hierro and Gandia in Valencia by fishermen’s guilds and associations.
As in previous years, the items recovered were classified by marine litter type using the MARNOBA platform at the ports themselves. Samples of the most abundant type, i.e. plastics, were sent to AIMPLAS to be categorized by the nature of the materials and to gain more knowledge about the plastics found, and to the Universidade de Vigo for toxicological analysis. The routes ta
In an unprecedented alliance, 16 social entities
1, both state and territorial, have demanded the Spanish State to the European Commission for non-compliance of the 50 % reuse and recycling target in 2020 set by the European Union. The complaint, which has been accepted by the European Commission, is a historic milestone and is motivated by years and years of erratic policies, stagnant selective collection and recycling rates and total disinterest in promoting prevention and reuse, as detailed this morning by different representative people.
«All the surveys on the preparation for reuse and recycling in 2020 force us to think that in the Spanish State the objectives established by Directive 2008/98 / EC will not be met,» reads the demand filed by this group of groups. According to the latest data presented by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, the recycling of municipal waste in Spain stood at 35 % in 2018. And, not only has this insuffic