Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Questions from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs:

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Chemicals, pesticides and hazardous waste What is the relationship between chemicals and environmental and human stressors, such as climate change and biodiversity loss? What will the impact be on ecosystem services, both now and in the future? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Chemicals, pesticides and hazardous waste How can innovation in chemical production, use, and disposal across the supply chain minimise chemical-related risks, benefiting the circular economy and reducing pollution? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Chemicals, pesticides and hazardous waste What are the biggest chemical, pesticide, and hazardous waste-related risks to the environment and human health, both in the UK and globally? What are the costs of inaction? How are these risks most effectively monitored and managed, and what is the role of government? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Chemicals, pesticides and hazardous waste How can we improve horizon scanning capability for emerging global chemical risks to the environment? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Chemicals, pesticides and hazardous waste What are the population-level impacts of sublethal pesticide and other chemical exposure in the environment? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Resources and waste What is needed to bring the UK to a best-in-world performance on recycling, particularly in difficult areas such as urban recycling? How can we improve secondary material markets to drive further recycling increases? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Resources and waste Improving the use and design of extended producer responsibility schemes in the UK that could yield significant benefits Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Resources and waste Increasing understanding of the macro-economic benefits of resource efficiency. Developing metrics and measurement techniques to identify key areas for intervention to achieve these benefits and to monitor progress Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Resources and waste How do we encourage the design of longer lasting and easily repairable consumer items? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Air quality, noise and soundscape Develop innovative and improved abatement technologies for air pollutant emissions and noise generation across all sectors and sources Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Air quality, noise and soundscape Develop new and improved monitoring and modelling approaches, incorporating systems-based considerations which better reflect real world changes Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Air quality, noise and soundscape Improve quantification of air pollution and noise impacts on ecosystems Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Air quality, noise and soundscape Improve our understanding of how behavioural change can help meet air quality and noise/soundscape policy ambitions and improve the evaluation and dissemination of effective policy interventions Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Air quality, noise and soundscape Develop methods to assess personal exposure to air pollution and noise at a range of spatial scales and quantify health impacts and costs Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Air quality, noise and soundscape Understand differential toxicity of particulate components, the importance of non-exhaust sources, relevance of pollutant mixtures, and the biological mechanisms for effects from different sound sources Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Air quality, noise and soundscape Better understanding of ecosystem responses to air quality impacts and of restoration trajectories / rates of recovery of impacted systems in response to policy interventions Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Ocean and coastal processes Assess how marine protected areas can act as nature-based solutions to the effects of climate change by sequestering carbon Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Ocean and coastal processes Further our understanding of how climate change is affecting the health of the ocean as a result of acidification and warming seas Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Productive seas and freshwater and migratory fish Integrate fisheries monitoring in a systems approach to manage and maintain sustainable productivity. Integrate marine planning systems to protect habitats and species, and reduce the industry’s costs to enable economic development Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Productive seas and freshwater and migratory fish Develop innovative technologies and foster industry and business engagement to support sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, offshore energy production, maritime transport, carbon sequestration, and recreation Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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