The environment ministry has been effectively put into special measures, with a "tiger team" assembled to deliver a countryside climate plan, quickly. Reporting yesterday on a leaked Whitehall memo, Oliver Wright at the Times revealed it acknowledged that “Defra is currently not on track to deliver against its greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for CB [carbon budget] 4, 5, 6 and does not have an agreed policy pipeline that allows us to meet them.”
This is one of the most important subjects of our time. The state of nature in the UK is in a severely depleted state and must be re-booted in order to reverse declines in wildlife, from the rare to the common species. This must be a habitat-led approach which does not allow for mono-culture or artificial inputs of any kind. Making 30% of all land for nature, as called for by The Wildlife Trusts, needs to be set out in the Environment Bill.
This is one of the most important subjects of our time. The state of nature in the UK is in a severely depleted state and must be re-booted in order to reverse declines in wildlife, from the rare to the common species. This must be a habitat-led approach which does not allow for mono-culture or artificial inputs of any kind. Making 30% of all land for nature, as called for by The Wildlife Trusts, needs to be set out in the Environment Bill.