Today, 30 January 2020, the Government’s landmark Environment Bill finally returns to Parliament.
With one in seven species in the UK now at risk of extinction and 58% of species in decline (State of Nature Report 2019), The Wildlife Trusts have long called for ambitious new laws to allow nature to recover. Ensuring a healthy natural environment is vital to reversing the massive loss of nature as well as combating climate change and achieving net-zero carbon emissions.
This Bill, the first of its kind for over 20 years, will establish a new structure for managing the environment and will aim to strengthen environmental protections to reverse nature’s decline.