This week, DEFRA closed submissions to its consultation on the long-term environmental targets set under the Environment Act. These targets will be a primary driver of action on environmental challenges over the next two decades, so ensuring that the framework is as strong as possible will be...
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May 2022
With the announcement of the Government’s upcoming legislative plans in the Queen’s Speech, Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) are once again facing change in the near future. As EIA practitioners know, making predictions about what will happen is a difficult job, and the prospect...
March 2022
During the UN's COP26 Climate Change Summit, the IES published its landmark Manifesto for Transformative Change, setting out 54 recommendations for global climate action. The recommendations represent the voices of environmental scientists across disciplines, as well as the minimum level of...
March 2022
Read the latest IES briefing paper on water policy and other policy issues related to water resources and systems. With a number of critical policy developments in environmental governance, punctuated by the Environment Act 2021, there are multiple opportunities for positive engagement with...
March 2022
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published the report of its Working Group 2, focussed on the vulnerability of socio-economic and natural systems to climate change. Following on from the Working Group 1 report published last year on the scientific basis of climate change...
February 2022
11 February 2015 was the very first United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science, which aimed to recognise the importance of full and equal access to, and participation in, science for women and girls around the world. Born from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the...
