The new UK Government took office in July 2024, and CIEEM has published our 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 form the basis for our engagement with the new Government. We are actively following up with ministers, parliamentarians, civil servants and other stakeholders as we look to use the critical period of the next five years to tackle the interlinked crises of biodiversity loss, climate change and inequality.
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.
Read the full recommendations document on the CIEEM Resource Hub.