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Energy and Environment
Single-use plastics and the circular economy
EU Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Karmenu Vella, discusses the reasoning and ambitions of the EU’s recent Directive…
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Energy and Environment
Time for a SEA change?
William Orbinson QC discusses the implications of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for forthcoming local development plans and offers his thoughts…
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Energy and Environment
Drains before cranes
NI Water Chief Executive Sara Venning discusses the challenges for water and wastewater infrastructure and the significant investment needed to…
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Energy and Environment
Waste: A Welsh perspective
David Warren, Head of Circular Economy Policy Development at the Welsh Government outlines the drivers behind the nation’s impressive waste…
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Energy and Environment
Carbon intensity indicators published
A new report published by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs shows increased levels of carbon intensity in…
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Europe and Brexit
Brexit chaos
With the UK leaving the European Union on 29 March 2019, the chaos that is Brexit continues. Owen McQuade looks…
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Europe and Brexit
MEPs: A view on the agreement
The terms of the withdrawal agreement have divided opinions across the UK and within Parliament to the extent that the…
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Europe and Brexit
Northern Ireland and the withdrawal agreement
Queen’s University Belfast’s David Phinnemore and Katy Hayward analyse the ‘Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland’ within the withdrawal agreement, the purported…
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Issues
A zombie premiership
In surviving the confidence vote, British Prime Minister Theresa May can claim pyrrhic victory over her party’s dissenters. However, she…
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Issues
A moral responsibility
The Head of Northern Ireland’s Civil Service David Sterling has described a “moral responsibility” on the Secretary of State Karen…
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