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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
chemicals
environment
biodiversity
ecosystem services
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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
chemicals
environment
circular economy
pollution
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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
environment
chemicals
pesticides
hazardous waste
health
government
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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
environment
chemicals
horizon scanning
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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
chemicals
environment
pesticides
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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
recycling
resource efficiency
waste prevention
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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
economy
environment
recycling
extended producer responsibility
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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
economy
resource efficiency
metrics
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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
economy
environment
resource efficiency
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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
environment
air pollution
noise pollution
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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
environment
monitoring
modelling
systems
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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
environment
air pollution
noise pollution
ecosystems
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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
environment
air quality
noise/soundscape
policy
behavioural change
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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
environment
air pollution
noise
health
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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
environment
air quality
soundscape
toxicity
pollutant mixtures
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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
environment
ecosystems
air quality
policy interventions
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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
environment
marine protected areas
carbon sequestration
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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
ocean health
acidification
warming seas
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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
fisheries
marine planning
sustainable productivity
economic development
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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
sustainable growth
marine economy
fisheries
aquaculture
offshore energy production
maritime transport
carbon sequestration
recreation
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