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    July 1, 2020

    Climate Change Committee recommendations on Covid recovery and Environmental Land Management Scheme

    NewsWater

    Last week we covered the Climate Change Committee’s 2020 report to Parliament. Recently, the Committee also set out its recommendations for a resilient recovery from Covid-19 (published May) and (last week) on the coverage of Environmental Land Management Scheme in letters to the Prime Minister, and Defra, respectively.

    On the green recovery, the CCC’s recommendations are:

    • Use climate investments to support the economic recovery and jobs.
    • Lead a shift towards positive long-term behaviours.
    • Tackle the wider ‘resilience deficit’ on climate change.
    • Embed fairness as a core principle.
    • Ensure the recovery does not ‘lock-in’ greenhouse gas emissions or increased climate risk.
    • Strengthen incentives to reduce emissions when considering fiscal changes

    On ELMS, the key recommendations are:

    • ELM must sit within an integrated response to climate change, food provision and the environment.
    • Adaptation underpins every outcome. ELM design should recognise that adaptation is a necessary pre-requisite to meeting the scheme’s other public good outcomes, because they are at risk from climate change.
    • It is critical to encourage private investment alongside ELM funding in order to deliver the scale of transformation in land use and management that is required.
    • Actions that reduce vulnerability and exposure to climate change should be rewarded under ELM; how this will happen through the design of the payments under the scheme needs to be clearly set out.

    There is a lot more in both letters which can be found here:

    • Resilient recovery letter is HERE.
    • ELMS letter is HERE.
    Tagged: Climate Change Committee, covid19, DEFRA, ELM, virus, Water

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