Greenpeace expresses concern about review of Defra regulations to ensure they deliver growth, @horton_official reports - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Labour set out plans to raise taxes by £7.3bn in its manifesto – but Treasury briefing suggests £40bn in tax rises and spending cuts needed
This is crowdsourced particulate matter data btw from Purple Air sensors and the like. Defra and other local gov networks don't have good enough monitoring, either the sensors or their spatial or temporal resolution, imv.
Yesterday, Defra appointed economist Dan Corry to carry out an internal review of its regulation and regulators. Senior fellow Ruth Chambers says:
wise words www.linkedin.com/pulse/defra-...
The UK's Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) framework has been a key policy shift in embedding environmental responsibility into development planning, you probably won't be reading this article if you weren'...
One week in at Defra, and it looks like I'll be in just many meetings that discuss poo, as when I worked at the NHS.
On Wednesday we launched the Local Authority #Climatewww.youtube.com/watch?v=waW9...
YouTube video by Met Office - Science and Services
Anecdotally, I've heard that Defra landscape recovery schemes have land management plans (tree planting, rewetting river valleys etc) that don't consider the impact on the historic environment particularly well. And aren't informed by the information deriving from archaeological research either...
Reminds me when Defra refused to remove a cow that died down a really steep bit on a school friend’s family farm so it never got moved. Anyway, long story short, eventually he got a really good cow skull. Based on that I doubt they’d haul one up a rail embankment.
I wonder if there’s some knowledge assumed in this post? I hope the services being talked about are the ones that cut across the 30+ arms length bodies that Defra works alongside. I tend to liken Defra and the ALBs to a federated organisation, with all the challenges that that brings.
Well this is very concerning. In a debate yesterday, Labour Defra Secretary Steve Reed stated that farming and food security were "the foundations of our economy, our communities and indeed our environment.” Reed's reading straight off the NFU hymnsheet. www.farminguk.com/news/pressur...
Calls have been made for the government to boost the agriculture budget to £5.6 billion as MPs debated the state of the farming industry in the Commons.