
– removing exemptions for the Treasury and Ministry of Defence from taking into account environmental principles in policy making. – a more ambitious approach to targets in air pollution – requiring the Government to make a formal declaration of a biodiversity and climate emergency

– making interim targets for nature, air, water and waste legally binding The amendments at that stage were reported in this piece: Environment Bill: The 10 government defeats in the Lords (ENDS Report, 14 September 2021). On Monday (13 September 2021) it was already being reported in a Green Alliance blog post, on the back of a Daily Telegraph story, that the Government was reluctant to accept the amendments which had been passed which could ultimately lead to the Bill entering into a period of ping pong (less fun than it sounds) between the Lords and Commons.
#Another part of the forest wiki series
Aspirations of enactment by the time of November’s COP26 are surely fading fast in the light of a series of defeats for the Government at the report stage of the Bill in the House of Lords. Maybe it was the difficulties which the Government is having with its Environment Bill (original progenitor one M Gove). Maybe the biggest news this week wasn’t the replacement of Robert Jenrick by Michael Gove as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and the consequent likely pause of the still-paused-anyway planning law reforms.

“ If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”
