Including 7 closely related terms such as flood, flooding, and local flood.
… of sustainable drainage where planting and natural landscaping enable the landscape to absorb water and so reduce flood risk. Park Avenue, Canvey is the first road in Essex to have new “rain gardens” installed to help reduce the risk of local flooding, through the Make Rain Happy project, funded by ECC and Anglian Water. A new Sustainable Drainage (SuDS) project, funded by the Department for Transport…
… Essex Climate Action Report 2021-22 Essex Climate Action Annual Report 2021-22 2 Contents Foreword 4 A key year for Climate Action in the UK 5 1. Land Use & Green Infrastructure 6 Essex Forest Partnership 7 Investing in Nature to Reduce Flood Risk & Protect Homes 8 Climate Focus Area…
… report, Net Zero: Making Essex Carbon Neutral. This sets out around 100 recommendations which tackle the climate and biodiversity challenges head on. The Commission recognised that nature is key to absorbing and storing carbon and is our best defence against risks from already changing weather systems. These risks, which are increasing year on year, bring more flooding, subsidence, soil degradation…
… of two years and has since been extended for a further three years. The commission will run until 2025. The latest science underlines that concerted action and ambitious change are urgently needed. Our own experience over the past year: the hottest summer on record, wildfires destroying homes in Essex, water shortages with hosepipe bans into the winter and increased flooding underlines how urgent…
…, reduce surface water flooding in both urban and rural areas and reduce air pollution for Essex residents. More than 60% of Essex is farmland Agriculture currently generates 11% of UK GHG emissions Funded until 2025, the EFI has a target to plant at least 375,000 trees 7 Investing in Nature to Reduce Flood Risk & Protect Homes Essex County Council (ECC) is the statutory…