28 Jun 2017
Beware the press and I’ve been caught like this before but the scale of response from many different sources suggests this may be the case. Michael Gove could use Brexit to shelve key plan to protect the environment, critics fear Officials tell The Independent they cannot guarantee strategy will be published this year, following delays. Green […]
28 Jun 2017
Business Green on the Queen’s Speech The assertion of support for the Paris Agreement was welcome, the paucity of the government’s wider green programme was anything but First, the good news. The Queen’s unequivocal assertion that her government “will continue to support international action against climate change, including the implementation of the Paris Agreement” is hugely […]
19 Apr 2017
Two articles 1. European Commission warns UK over failure to protect blanket bog habitats This is in the Environment section along with a number of other items The Commission is urging the United Kingdom to stop burning blanket bog habitats within upland Natura 2000 sites in England and to take measures to restore the damaged habitats. Blanket bogs are […]
19 Apr 2017
Civil Service World ‘Untangling the UK’s complicated relationship with European environmental policies and subsidies could be the hardest part of leaving the EU. Mark Rowe reports: When Theresa May talked of a Brexit cliff-edge – the risk of the UK leaving the EU with no trade deal in place – staff at the Department for […]
13 Apr 2017
And so it begins. What was always going to be a difficult process starts very badly – the draft 25 year environment plan has been leaked. This is not going to be a comfortable time for Defra Ministers and officials since the reactions so far have been from complimentary. ClientEarth chief executive James Thornton told […]
13 Apr 2017
Blueprint response to the Government’s strategic priorities and objectives for Ofwat April 2017 Blueprint for Water is a unique coalition of environmental, water efficiency, fisheries and angling organisations and a campaign of Wildlife and Countryside Link. ‘We welcome the opportunity to engage with Defra on the Strategic Policy Statement (SPS) to Ofwat. We are pleased […]
11 Apr 2017
Defra published litter strategy Litter louts could be hit with £150 fines as part of ambitious new plans to tackle rubbish in England. Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom unveiled the Government’s first Litter Strategy for England to reduce the near £800m burden to the taxpayer of clean-up costs. Under the new measures, the most serious litterers could be […]
06 Apr 2017
Natural Flood Management (NFM) has as Duncan Huggett outlines has become very fashionable, but it is neither new or, as a top level scientific review highlighted recently, a ‘silver bullet’. There are still many questions to answer in relation to its appropriate application, not least in terms of location of schemes in the catchment. With […]
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