Show Notes
This week the government published its long-awaited Environmental Improvement plan. The report is intended to lay out how the government will deliver on the Environment Act 2021’s legally-binding targets.
The reception has been mixed – but why has the prime minister’s words on the day sparked debate?
On this week’s podcast, ECO Chamber host, James Agyepong-Parsons, and ENDS Report deputy editor, Tess Colley, speak with Ruth Chambers, senior research fellow at the think-tank Green Alliance to find out.
From nature targets to a promised PFAS action plan, the team discusses the implications and potential impact of the new EIP.
The team also gets to grips with the ramifications of the new budget wherein policies on climate and nature were notably absent.
PLUS:
A former top ranking officer in the British Army has warned that the UK could become an ‘ungovernable state’ if climate change is not taken seriously; nature duty amendments in a new Devolution Bill have been quashed; and the UK takes a leaf out of the Trumpian handbook at an international meeting intended to uphold environmental democracy.
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