Delivering the UK Government’s Nature Recovery Agenda
A new UK Government is settling into Westminster, and CIEEM is geared up and ready to engage with this new chapter in UK politics. We are well aware of the challenges that lie ahead, nature is in serious trouble, and the next five years will be critical in tackling the interlinked crisis of biodiversity loss and climate change.
CIEEM and its expert members are committed to supporting the newly-elected Government and devolved administrations in ensuring that the UK meets our national and global environmental ambitions and targets. We want to use our collective expertise to contribute to policy and practice development, working in partnership that will once again enable the UK to be at the forefront of protecting and enhancing our natural environment.
CIEEM has set out seven key recommendations for the Government, outlining how it can achieve nature recovery and deliver truly transformative change. These are:
- Develop and implement plans to deliver the targets and goals in the Environment Act 2021
- Put nature at the heart of new towns and housebuilding plans
- Fully fund and resource the public bodies delivering for nature
- Develop and introduce a new land use framework with nature recovery as a core tenet
- Double the funding and improve advice to farmers and land managers to deliver nature recovery
- Support the growth of, and diversity in, the nature-related green economy
- Incentivise nature-positive business and finance
These recommendations will form the basis for our engagement with the new Government, and we will use them to drive forward policies that create real benefits for people and nature.
If you want more detail on each of these points, you can read the full recommendation document over on our Resource Hub.