The government is failing on almost all of its environmental targets, risking an “irreversible spiral of decline” in nature, a damning report by the environment watchdog has found.
Dame Glenys Stacey, chair of the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), has said in the report, published today, that if action is not taken England will fail to meet its goal of halting nature’s decline by 2030, as well as a host of other vital nature targets.
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“Rishi Sunak fails to find way to make environmental issues profitable for his shell companies”
More realistic headline, let’s face it
It’s the tories. A combination of ignorant, greedy, indifferent and incompetent.
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The OEP, which was set up as an environmental watchdog after Brexit, has found that meeting the targets is “at risk” and unlikely to happen without a swift change in policies to improve nature.
The report shows the government is failing on almost every measure to protect the environment, from recovery of native British species numbers to water quality and managing amounts of toxic chemicals and pesticides.
Natalie Prossed, the chief executive of the OEP, said taking legal action against the government would be kept under “active consideration” if ministers continued to fail to meet environmental targets.
Stacey said she was additionally “disappointed” the government had taken a full year to respond to the OEP’s previous report on its progress, and has not shared a detailed plan of how it would meet the EIP.
Steve Reed, the shadow environment secretary, said Labour would urgently act to reverse these trends if it came into power, adding: “The Conservatives are destroying our beautiful countryside.
“We were always clear that our targets are ambitious, and would require significant work to achieve, but we are fully committed to creating a greener country for future generations and going further and faster to deliver for nature.
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