Items Tagged 'Government'

• Government to consider Nature Volunteer Force to tackle invasive species following Spending Review
• Reaction: Welcome Government commitments towards closing our doors on nature invaders
• Major study reveals substantial quantities of tyre particles contaminating our rivers and ocean
• New research reveals huge public support for putting nature at the heart of Coronavirus recovery plans
• Scottish public want a less wasteful economy
• Supertrawlers spent 2963 hours fishing in UK Marine Protected Areas in 2019
• Mayors, councils, local communities, and RSPB unite in support of the call to urgently ban peatland burning on grouse moors
• Government under increasing pressure to ban burning on England’s peatlands
• New Forest National Park Authority responds to Government’s proposed new planning reforms
• Thousands sign petition against Government’s emergency authorisation of bee-killing pesticide
• The Wildlife Trusts explore legal challenge to Government decision to allow emergency use of neonicotinoid
• Time is running out: Government must “move on from aspirational words” and start “taking the hard decisions”
• Government inertia on peatlands risks international embarrassment
• New £10 million fund to drive private sector investment in nature
• Government’s plan to phase out badger cull must mean end to cull licences now
• Time is running out for realistic climate commitments
• 208,498 people back legal target for nature’s recovery
• Climate change: Net zero transition must be fair, say MPs
• UK failing to protect land for nature
• RSPCA dismay as targets for killing badgers are increased despite government pledge to stop
• Programme for Government: commitments must deliver a transformation for nature
• The Wildlife Trusts respond to new badger cull licences
• CPRE urges Michael Gove to focus on housing, nature and the climate crisis
• The deadly effects of sewage pollution on nature
• Millennial generation leaders need urgent help to prepare for climate crisis ‘crunch point’, says report
• Public tells government to ban polluting single-use plastics now
• New UK Government targets could mean less wildlife for future generations
• OEP calls for urgent action to meet the ambitions of the 25 Year Environment Plan
• RSPB warns of nature disaster as Tory leadership rhetoric targets laws that protect wildlife
• Public urged to defend nature as new policies threaten nature, climate and food security
• Government must support behaviour change to meet climate targets
• Environment Secretary calls for action to protect and restore nature at COP27
• Commitments to HS2 and Sizewell C undermine Government promises on climate
• Four nations’ nature charities denounce Truss government Bill due back in the Commons today
• “An economic and environmental wrecking ball” – new figures reveal ripping up of retained EU laws could cost £82bn for the UK
• A lack of leadership is preventing essential investment to prepare the UK for climate change
• Climate change has arrived, yet the country is still strikingly unprepared
• We urgently need to protect England’s nature
• “Government has no credible plan” – reaction to report on progress towards goal of protecting 30% of England for nature
• Environmental principles duty comes into force
• Derbyshire Wildlife Trust urges UK Government to raise ambition on nature recovery at COP28
• The lungs of the world are collapsing at an alarming rate: EAC urges Government to act with urgency to tackle global deforestation
• Wildlife at risk on farms as vital hedge and river rules vanish
• Government remains largely off track to meet its environmental ambitions, finds OEP in annual progress report
• Double down on delivery or Government nature targets will just be daydreams, says environment coalition
• Government response to Independent Review on Dartmoor published
• Reaction: Government response to protected site management review welcomed
• Government to fund 180 local projects to boost water quality
• New poll finds most people think main parties falter on nature and climate crises in the run up to General Election
• National Trust's asks for the new government
• Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust urges the new Government, and local MPs, to now step up and prioritise nature
• King’s Speech shows Labour government has hit the ground running
• Kent Wildlife Trust reflect on King’s speech and what it means for nature in the county
• Government launches rapid review to meet Environment Act targets
• HTA calls on rapid review of environmental targets to recognise the value of horticulture
• Scientists call on Government to change policies to boost nature on UK solar farms
• Government to end badger cull with new TB eradication strategy
• Butterfly Conservation, B&Q and Co-op sign letter urging Government to end peat sales
• Government and developers must put nature recovery first, urges new report on England’s housebuilding drive
• New report shows how UK can reverse nature loss and lead on world stage
• Special Representative for Nature appointed in landmark first
• Thames21’s response to the government’s launch of an Independent Commission to review the water industry
• Nature-friendly farming budget escapes cuts but leaves Defra with important decisions to make
• Cuts raise questions over commitments to National Parks
• Nature charities urge UK Government ministers to protect globally rare chalk streams in planning reform
• New food security report out today shows Government must fast-track nature-friendly farming
• Government launches “national conversation” on land use
• Beavers are coming home!
• Planning and Infrastructure Bill introduced to Parliament
• CIEEM responds to Planning and Infrastructure Bill
• Government publishes new approach to ensure regulators and regulation support growth, including removing reference to the BCT Guidelines
• More ambition needed to reduce pesticides, say The Wildlife Trusts
• Ban the burn – protect all peat!
• Gaps in Planning & Infrastructure Bill “deeply concerning”, say The Wildlife Trusts
• Concerns over Bathing Water reforms as season starts
• Government digs grave for wildlife
• UK Government risk inflicting ‘hammer blow’ on the countryside, The Wildlife Trusts warn
• Government challenged to save missing commons
• Report calls for bigger role for shooting in nature recovery
• Scaling investment into nature is critical to achieving government’s growth ambitions
• Not adding up: new research shows UK is miles away from meeting 2030 goals
• New report shows UK nature bearing brunt of chaotic climate
• Wake-up call as new data reveals dramatic declines for England’s farmland birds
• Water policy is getting a long-overdue shakeup. Small waters could deliver big wins, fast
• We urge UK Government to end ‘waste colonialism’ by banning plastic waste exports
• Nature not a “blocker” to housing delivery, MPs find in new report
• Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration