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Despite new government powers to recover the oceans, still nothing is guaranteed

This post is by Helen McLachlan, WWF-UK’s fisheries programme manager and chair of Greener UK’s work on fisheries. As the Fisheries Act receives Royal Assent, it is important to reflect
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Will the PM’s plan put the environment at the heart of the UK’s economic recovery?

After weeks of uncertainty about when and whether the ten point plan would be launched, it’s finally out. This is a really significant step, as it makes clear that the
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Why care should be at the heart of climate policy

This post is by Sarah Olney MP, Liberal Democrat spokesperson for the climate emergency, business & energy and transport I recently visited Dose of Nature, a charity in Kew established
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Will the government’s new Environmental Land Management scheme live up to its promise?

This post is by Alice Groom, senior policy officer at the RSPB. Work done by farmers will be central to bringing back wildlife and protecting our most cherished landscapes. And
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Without the right building blocks in place, ‘net zero’ will just be an aspiration

To most people ‘infrastructure’ is an abstract word. Something engineers and policy wonks worry about, which has little to do with their everyday lives. And yet, from the buildings we
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Three tests the government’s green recovery plans should be measured against

This post is by Belinda Gordon, strategy director and Roz Bulleid, interim deputy policy director at Green Alliance While the risk of a second coronavirus wave was always there, the
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After the bill, it’s time to act: what next for agriculture and trade?

This post is by David Walsh, public affairs adviser for WWF UK and a contributor to Greener UK’s work on the Agriculture Bill. The Agriculture Bill has finally completed its
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The single misuse problem: it’s not just about plastic

This post is by Colin Church, chief executive of IOM3 and chair of Green Alliance’s Circular Economy Task Force. Single use plastic is evil, or so we are repeatedly told
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Ecodesign is a huge environmental success story, it should be expanded

At the risk of being uncool, I get very excited about ecodesign. Specifically, I have great enthusiasm for what it, together with energy labelling, has achieved and what it could
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The UK needs to fix its regulatory enforcement problem if it wants a resilient economy

This post is by Emma Rose, director of Unchecked UK. The government has set out strong ambitions with respect to the environment, alongside welcome assurances that both Brexit and the
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