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| Title: | Consultation on Strategic Environmental Assessment scoping report for proposed national policy statement for new nuclear power |
| Organisation: | BERR |
| Issued: | 18 March 2008 |
| Deadline: | 16 April 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | This statutory consultation is on the scope of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for a proposed National Policy Statement (NPS) on planning for new nuclear power stations. It proposes how the SEA will be undertaken, the level and type of information to be covered in the Environmental Report, and how the SEA will be integrated into the development of the proposed Nuclear NPS. |
| Title: | Consultation on funded decommissioning programme guidance for new nuclear power stations |
| Organisation: | BERR |
| Issued: | 18 March 2008 |
| Deadline: | 16 May 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | The White Paper on Nuclear Power 2008, published in January 2008, confirmed the Government’s commitment to put in place legislative arrangements to ensure that operators of new nuclear power stations have secure financing arrangements in place to meet the full costs of decommissioning and their full share of waste management costs. Clauses in the Energy Bill 2008 create the framework for this. The Energy Bill will require any operator of a new nuclear power station to have a Funded... (63 words more) |
| Title: | Scottish Planning Policy SPP 23: Planning and the Historic Environment: Consultative Draft |
| Author: | The Scottish Government |
| Issued: | 20 February 2008 |
| Deadline: | 09 May 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | The Scottish Government are inviting written responses to this consultation paper by 9 May 2008. Consultees are encouraged to make their response to the SPP in light of the findings of the SEA, as set out in the Environmental Report, which is provided with the consultation paper on their website at the following web-address: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/02/13134354/0 |
| Title: | A framework document outlining sustainable flood risk management in Scotland |
| Author: | The Scottish Government |
| Issued: | 20 February 2008 |
| Deadline: | 22 April 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | The Scottish Government has published a consultation document which sets out the proposals for the Flooding Bill and seeks views on the proposals. They are asking important questions about the future of flood risk management and development of legislation to provide this framework. |
| Title: | Consultation on improving surface water drainage |
| Author: | Defra |
| Issued: | 20 February 2008 |
| Deadline: | 30 April 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | This consultation develops some of the key policy proposals set out in the Government's new Water Strategy, Future Water. The strategy sets out a vision for more effective drainage of surface water, in order to resolve existing problems and prepare for the impacts of climate change. |
| Title: | Consultation on options for controls on phosphates in domestic laundry cleaning products in England |
| Author: | Defra |
| Issued: | 20 February 2008 |
| Deadline: | 30 April 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | Defra have launched a consultation on options for controls on phosphates in domestic laundry cleaning products alongside the water strategy, Future Water. Defra's water strategy, Future Water, outlines Government's long term vision for water policy. Improving water quality is a central part of this vision and mechanisms to tackle non-agricultural diffuse water pollution (NADWP) will make an important contribution to that process. |
| Title: | Consultation on proposals for a Scottish Climate Change Bill |
| Organisation: | The Scottish Government |
| Issued: | 07 February 2008 |
| Deadline: | 04 April 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | The Scottish Government is today publishing a consultation document which sets out our proposals for a Scottish Climate Change Bill and seeks your views on options for the Bill. Our objective for this consultation is to ensure that all interested parties have the opportunity to contribute their opinions at an early stage of policy development. We are asking important questions about the shape of our policy proposals and what issues should be taken into account when developing the Bill. |
| Title: | SEPA Climate Change Plan 2008 - 2012 |
| Organisation: | SEPA |
| Issued: | 14 December 2007 |
| Deadline: | 26 February 2008 CLOSED |
| Synopsis: | SEPA’s State of Scotland’s Environment 2006 report identified climate change as the biggest threat facing Scotland’s environment with serious implications for the nation’s health and wellbeing. SEPA’s policies, advice and guidance will have to keep pace with changing social and economic priorities as climate change considerations bear increasing weight on all sectors of society. SEPA also have a role in helping to develop and contribute to knowledge and understanding of the... (84 words more) |
Environmental Management - the G8 Summit
by Groundwork Environmental Services;
by Groundwork Environmental Services;
Groundwork Environmental Services was invited by event organisers Jack Morton Worldwide to act as consultants in planning the G8 summit at Gleneagles, advising on improving environmental performance... (295 words more)
Energy White paper: our energy future - creating a low carbon economy (2003)
by Department for Trade and Industry (DTI);
by Department for Trade and Industry (DTI);
Our country needs a new energy policy. Despite the improvements we have made over the last five years, today’s policy will not meet tomorrow’s challenges. We need to address the threat of climate... (175 words more)
Eliminating World Poverty: A Challenge for the 21st Century: White Paper on International Development
by Department for International Development (DFID) 1997;
by Department for International Development (DFID) 1997;
This White Paper sets out the Government’s policies to achieve the sustainable development of this planet. It is first, and most importantly, about the single greatest challenge which the world... (173 words more)
Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor: White Paper on International Development
by Department for International Development (DFID) 2000;
by Department for International Development (DFID) 2000;
One in five of the world’s population - two-thirds of them women - live in abject poverty: on the margins of existence, without adequate food, clean water, sanitation or healthcare, and without... (153 words more)
Addressing the Water Crisis: healthier and more productive lives for poor people
by Department for International Development (DFID) 2001;
by Department for International Development (DFID) 2001;
This paper is about water and its links to poverty elimination and to the achievement of the International Development Targets. Those links form the basis of all DFID’s work in water.
... (119 words more)
Energy White paper: our energy future - creating a low carbon economy (2003)
by Department for Trade and Industry (DTI);
by Department for Trade and Industry (DTI);
Our country needs a new energy policy. Despite the improvements we have made over the last five years, today’s policy will not meet tomorrow’s challenges. We need to address the threat of climate... (175 words more)
Achieving sustainability: poverty elimination and the environment
by Department for International Development (DFID);
by Department for International Development (DFID);
This paper is one of a set. Together, they spell out actions which could transform the lives of hundreds of millions of poor people and make the planet a better and safer place for our children and... (181 words more)
Transforming the market: cleaner vehicles
by Zina Etheridge; Transport, Environment and Taxation Division, DETR;
by Zina Etheridge; Transport, Environment and Taxation Division, DETR;
Optional Road vehicles have bought great advantages, but also significant adverse impacts on the environment. One important way of reducing these impacts is to transform the market to cleaner, more... (452 words more)