Environment Bill
The UK’s Environment Bill puts forward the legislative framework by which environmental policymaking will be guided for decades to come.
Environment Bill
In England it requires the setting of long-term targets in the areas of air quality, biodiversity, water, and resource efficiency and waste reduction. The Bill also sets out the need for a new environmental watchdog to be created (the Office for Environmental Protection) and the development of a policy statement to be used by Ministers across government to embed environmental considerations in all policymaking.
Environment Bill articles
IEMA responds to the Office for Environmental Protection consultation
The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) ran a consultation earlier this year to gather stakeholders’ views and insights on its strategy and enforcement policy.
The UK government has today launched an eight-week consultation on its plans for legally-binding environmental targets.
Sir Partha Dasgupta, author of the landmark Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity, tells Chris Seekings why a new approach is needed to halt and reverse humanity’s destruction of nature
The pandemic seems to have focused minds on the importance of green space, says Aona Stuart
Beavers are on the comeback, with Scotland making them a protected species and the Westminster government looking at their wider reintroduction. Huw Morris reports on these elite eco-engineers
July saw the publication of IEMA’s Principles of Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment, produced in partnership with the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists and the Institute of Historic Building Conservation.
Over two million hectares of Brazilian rainforest could be legally converted to supply the UK with soy under a new anti-deforestation law proposed by the government, the WWF has found.
The Environment Bill returned to Parliament following the Queen’s speech and is making progress through the House of Lords.
