Good to hear new PM Rishi Sunak make very clear commitment to delivering the #EnvironmentAct at #PMQs in response to Caroline Lucas
We look forward to helping ensure the words turn into meaningful success across the UK for nature, people & society. Woodland Trust🌳 Shaun Spiers
🌍Explainer! On #EnvironmentAct targets
Yesterday we made a formal complaint that Defra UK missed its own legal deadline for publishing #EnvironmentAct targets in England.
These are important targets that will help set ambition for and drive nature’s recovery.
BUT ... 🧵
Young The Wildlife Trusts Ambassadors meet Dr Mya-Rose Craig later to hand in The Wildlife Trusts response to Gov's #environmentAct targets: 60,000+ DISAGREE with the level of ambition for species abundance. First time they've done something so big for wildlife🍀🤞Wish us luck! I'll pass it on
CEN MP Philip Dunne calls on the government to consider what can be done, beyond the measures in the #EnvironmentAct , to clean up our rivers 🌊🐟
Our youth ambassadors Abi and Matt are in London, on their way to Downing Street, to hand in our #EnvironmentAct petition. Next they'll meet with The Wildlife Trusts Dr Mya-Rose Craig and pay a visit to #Government . Wish them luck!
We're on our way to UK Prime Minister to call for ambitious nature recovery targets in the #EnvironmentAct . Young people deserve a #WilderFuture and 60,000 people agree! 🌳🐞🐬
The Environment Act 2021 was signed into law on the 9th November, with over 300 pages it has many implications for the water industry.
Read more here:
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#water #environment #law #EnvironmentAct
The #EnvironmentAct statutory instruments have been published. It's good to see the target to halt the decline of species abundance by 2030 in law.
The list of species is a poem to Parliament that surely demands action and investment.
legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2022/978…
Just 1/4 SSSIs in national parks are in good condition, so new targets today for protected landscapes are important.
Now Government must support them to succeed:
🪶Rapid capital investment to improve SSSIs
🪶 Regulations to link management plans to #EnvironmentAct targets.
2 years ago today, the #EnvironmentAct achieved Royal Assent. 🎂
The Act promised 'world-leading' protections for nature & the environment, but our Government has failed to cut illegal deforestation from supply chains.
We don't need more promises. We need action #ForOurWorld .
We are appalled at the lack of ambition shown in the #EnvironmentAct targets.
Agricultural pollution has not been taken as the serious threat it is and the failure to implement an overall target for river health shows a severe lack of care.
Full response from charles watson 👇
📜 The #EnvironmentAct 2021 made it compulsory for every area in England to have a Local Nature Recovery Strategy.
💪 Councils must be bold and ambitious with their plans for #NatureRecovery .
👉 Ensure your council takes effective action: bit.ly/3NPnirq
With Greener UK Wildlife and Countryside Link & others we have sent a formal complaint to Defra UK
UK Gov must be held to account for missing legal deadline to give #EnvironmentAct targets for air quality, water health, nature, & waste in England. We need these ASAP.
wcl.org.uk/government-mis…
My educated guess is that the 2021 State of Environment Report makes for very bad reading and even worse headlines! So these are my headlines:
Environmental mismanagement on a massive scale leaves iconic animals and GBR on edge of collapse. #EnvironmentAct
What a fab day with travelling to #10 Downing Street for our #EnvironmentAct campaign hand-in. Lots of great photos to come but here's a few of us having photos taken! SuffolkWildlifeTrust Lancashire Wildlife Trust Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust Warwickshire Wildlife Trust London Wildlife Trust y💚💪 Ambassadors have been fantastic today
