Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

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

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Land use How can we understand better land/sea interactions? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Land use What is needed to enhance or create natural areas to provide nature-based solutions? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Land use What is the most effective means to support community regeneration through use of parks and public spaces? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Land use How can we optimise the food system to support future food production and consumption sustainably whilst reducing environmental impacts? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Land use What are the likely changes to our agricultural sector following COVID-19 and how can the agricultural system transition be best guided towards a sustainable trajectory while ensuring food security? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Land use What are the broader environmental consequences of changes to the housing and planning system, and what is needed to support a lower-carbon future? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Land use How to optimize the deployment of different nature-based solutions to realise their various benefits and avoid negative outcomes (for example some tree planting on peatland)? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Land use As well as modelling and understanding major land use change (for example from agriculture to forestry), how can we understand the effects of more subtle changes in land management across wide areas (for example changing tillage practice)? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Land use What is the best way to model trade-offs and synergies across multiple environmental, social, and economic goals resulting from land use and land management? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Land use How can we balance different interests at local and national levels, to provide the resources we need, reduce degradation of natural capital and improve the state of the environment? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero What are the positive and negative environmental impacts of increasing renewable energy production (wind, solar, geothermal, and so on) and other actions taken to decarbonise the economy? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero What are the impacts of greenhouse gas removals and negative emission technologies on climate and the environment? What are the trade-offs of negative emissions techniques and other interventions? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero How should mitigation of other greenhouse gases and pollutants be compared to and combined with CO2 mitigation (i.e., what is the balance of action and what are the appropriate metrics to compare them), and what do these mean for the timing of the requirement for net zero emissions? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero Can other land-based approaches to greenhouse gas removal, such as enhanced weathering and biochar, help achieve net zero without negative environmental impacts? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero What are the competing pressures, trade-offs, and synergies of different land-uses in relation to climate change in a post COVID-19 world? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero How can a more strategic approach to land use be developed through aligning climate change objectives (adaptation and mitigation) with objectives for biodiversity and ecosystem services? How can the environmental co-benefits of mitigation actions be identified and quantified? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero How can the UK optimise sustainable growth of biomass for use in power generation (bioenergy) and, with appropriate storage, for removal of atmospheric CO2? How can the negative environmental consequences from biomass production and use (on soil quality, water quality, air quality, and biodiversity) be minimised? What’s the full life cycle analysis for different feedstock? What’s the scalability of different feedstocks within sustainable limits? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero What are the real-world barriers that prevent land-users (for example farmers) taking up low/negative carbon measures, and how can these be overcome? How can we improve the estimation and validation of take up for these practices? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero What is the role of the consumer in delivering net zero and how can changes be achieved equitably? What are the potential market responses to such changes and how do we avoid unintended consequences? Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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Achieving Net Zero How can we develop pathways towards net zero that are socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable? What is the range of viable solutions, and what are the associated co-benefits and trade-offs? This includes developing spatially explicit models and tools to inform decisions at the landscape level, including prioritisation of conflicting land use demands Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
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