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‘Don’t let our chance to restore Britain’s rivers go down the drain’

Published on: 31 October 2024

32 leading environmental, nature, and water sports organisations, including Wildlife and Countryside Link, River Action, The Rivers Trust, Surfers Against Sewage, and the Angling Trust, have joined forces to call on the newly appointed Chair of the Government’s Water Commission Sir Jon Cunliffe

Domestic action needed to get UK back on track as international nature leader at COP16

Published on: 16 October 2024

With the doors soon to open at COP16, nature groups are warning in a new progress tracker that inadequate action from the previous Government has left England off-track on meeting global biodiversity commitments.

Urgent UK nature rescue plan needed around COP16 talks to plug massive 30x30 target gap

Published on: 11 October 2024

Annual progress tracker on the landmark 30x30 nature target shows a decrease in the amount of land in England effectively protected for nature to under 3%, while the amount of sea protected increases fractionally to 9.92%

Just 2% of water company budget to be spent on natural infrastructure to help pollution-hit environment

Published on: 27 September 2024

Ofwat has given draft approval to a water industry budget of £88bn for the next 5 years, £35bn of which is enhancements, of which only £2bn is natural solutions. More ambition and investment is particularly needed in cost effective natural solutions to clean up sewage and chemical pollution and reduce flooding.

Environmental experts and industry call on Chancellor to invest in environmental planning expertise to unlock growth

Published on: 10 September 2024

Ahead of the Autumn Statement and the Comprehensive Spending Review, over 30 organisations from the environmental, professional, and public sectors have signed a joint letter to Chancellor Rachel Reeves. They are calling for increased investment in environmental planning expertise as a way to unlock economic growth and deliver on infrastructure, homebuilding, and nature targets.

Duplicate of Environmental experts and industry call on Chancellor to invest in environmental planning expertise to unlock growth

Published on: 10 September 2024

Ahead of the Autumn Statement and the Comprehensive Spending Review, over 30 organisations from the environmental, professional, and public sectors have signed a joint letter to Chancellor Rachel Reeves. They are calling for increased investment in environmental planning expertise as a way to unlock economic growth and deliver on infrastructure, homebuilding, and nature targets.

Environmental Groups call for Lords to ‘back the bill’ calling for a Green Duty

Published on: 3 September 2024

This week, nature organisations are calling on peers to back a bill that would place a "green duty" on public bodies in order to 'unlock' progress towards nature and climate targets.

Wildlife and Countryside Link welcomes Government review of Environmental Improvement Plan

Published on: 30 July 2024

The Government’s review of the Environmental Improvement Plan, has been welcomed by Wildlife and Countryside Link, though the green group cautions that the challenge now lies in turning the plan into effective action for nature.

It’s time to hold water and sewerage companies to account for their environmental performance

Published on: 23 July 2024

As data is released on the performance of water and sewerage companies, Wildlife and Countryside Link is calling for action to clean up our waterways

New PM must ‘Restore Nature Now’ as one of top priorities

Published on: 11 July 2024

The organisations behind the largest public demonstration in the General Election run-up (including the National Trust, WWF-UK, RSPB, The Wildlife Trusts,and Extinction Rebellion) have urged the new Prime Minister to make tackling the nature and climate crisis one of the top priorities of the new Labour government.

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