Final response to the 25 Year Environment Plan progress report
Helm, D; Willis, K; Bateman, IJ; et al.Leinster, P; Mayer, C; Collins, C; Austen, M
Date: 26 October 2020
Publisher
Natural Capital Committee
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Abstract
Executive summary
The Natural Capital Committee’s (NCC) final response to the second
25 Year Environment Plan (25 YEP) Progress Report – follows its
interim response published in July 2020. In its interim response, the
NCC raised concerns that the evidence presented in the Progress
Report at best provides only a partial picture, ...
Executive summary
The Natural Capital Committee’s (NCC) final response to the second
25 Year Environment Plan (25 YEP) Progress Report – follows its
interim response published in July 2020. In its interim response, the
NCC raised concerns that the evidence presented in the Progress
Report at best provides only a partial picture, given the narrow range
of datasets considered, and mostly shows declines in England’s
environment. The Committee also set out a natural capital approach
to assessing progress.
This report covers three areas, as follows:
i) Sets out a natural capital asset based framework for assessing progress against the 25 YEP;
ii) Demonstrates how this natural capital framework can be applied to independently scrutinise progress, with
the NCC’s assessment of seven natural assets summarised, and further detail provided across the associated
technical annexes – thereby laying the foundation for the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) to undertake
this function from 2021; and
iii) Highlights the priority areas where the government should focus in order to turnaround the evidenced declines in
natural assets and get on track to meet the 25 YEP objective to improve the natural environment within a generation.
Economics
Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy
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