From Water Briefing Greener UK – a coalition of the country’s leading green groups – has concluded that environmental protections in areas such as nature restoration and chemicals are either no stronger or weaker than they were pre-Brexit. Since 2017 Greener UK has tracked the strength of environmental standards as the UK takes back control […]
Greener UK – The House of Lords A ‘frame without a picture’: Peers scrutinise the Fisheries Bill Parliamentarians took their first opportunity to scrutinise the new version of the Fisheries Bill during the Lords second reading debate on 11 February. While most speakers agreed with our assessment that the bill offers much more than the […]
The Environment Bill is clearly a response to Brexit but the text is also beginning to include a wide range of other environmental matters not least concerning water and as such it also represents a major opportunity; for example: Water Briefing ‘Government says new Environment Bill will aim to deliver sustainable water resources Defra has published […]
Environmental Regulations Sean Spiers Greener UK The Greener UK coalition of 13 environment groups has analysed the Brexit deal against four benchmarks for a green Brexit. We believe the agreement poses a high risk to the environment. bit.ly/35EpM3Q 1/ pic.twitter.com/LbduY2C37b Fishing Opportunities Griffin Carpenter NEF: ‘Old deal on the left, new deal on the right. […]
Bob Earll blog: With the resignation of Theresa May, and the election for a new Prime Minister a great deal will change. Michael Gove is standing in the election for the next Tory leader and whoever wins it seems likely that there will be a major change of the ministerial team and leadership at Defra. […]
Greener UK, a group of 14 major environmental organisations has produced a briefing on one of the elements they see as missing from the government’s initial proposals for the Environment Bill: a mechanism for translating national objectives into local delivery. The briefing states that the Bill needs to include provisions to ensure a long term […]
Greener UK Risk Tracker argues that with less than four months to go until the UK leaves the EU huge uncertainties remain over the future of environmental safeguards BusinessGreen ‘The government’s shock decision to delay today’s hotly anticipated parliamentary vote on its proposed Withdrawal Agreement has further fuelled fears a ‘no deal’ Brexit could unleash […]
Greener UK ‘Tentative progress on plastics and ‘green Brexit’ held back by absence of environment watchdog Environmentalists argue that improvements in plastics, agriculture and chemicals policy are tempered by continuing uncertainty over how environmental laws will be enforced after Brexit. Tentative progress on plastics and ‘green Brexit’ held back by absence of environment watchdog Environmentalists […]