What the new green watchdog can learn from the Committee on Climate Change
This post is by Dr Ajay Gambhir, senior research fellow at Imperial College London’s Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment.
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the UK Climate Change Act, the first of a kind legislation to hold a country to a long term greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal. One of its central components, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), is actually a year older than the act itself, having been established in a non-legislated ‘shadow’ form in 2007, to prepare advice on what the act’s long term emissions goal should be and how it could be achieved. Read more
This post is by Lord Howard, the former leader of the Conservative Party and former secretary of state for the environment.
This post is by Tom West, ClientEarth’s law and policy advisor.
This post is by Andy Jordan and Brendan Moore, who are respectively the co-chair and manager of the 
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When first announcing the government’s plans to legislate the UK’s withdrawal from the EU the 
At long last, the government has published its environmental watchdog and principles consultation.
A year on from the prime minister’s letter invoking Article 50, the Brexit hourglass is now half full, or half empty depending on your political disposition. Optimist or pessimist, Leaver or Remainer, the fact is there is now less time for Theresa May and her enthusiastic Environment Secretary Michael Gove to deliver on their promise of a “green Brexit”. 