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- What exactly is the Environment Act and why do we need it? The Environment Act is the biggest UK environmental law in over a decade. Its aim is to ensure our natural world is still protected now that the UK has left the EU, and set out how the government will better protect and restore the environment in the future.
- The “world-leading environmental watchdog” isn’t good enough. A key feature of the Act is the introduction of the Office for Environmental Protections (OEP), which the government promised would be a “‘world leading environmental watchdog”.
- This is a missed opportunity on plastics. The new environment law implements the Resources and Waste Strategy for England, the ambition of which is to eliminate avoidable waste by 2050.
- Our appalling air quality is being addressed too little too late. Air pollution contributes to up to 36,000 early deaths a year. Campaigners like Rosamund, the mum of 9-year-old Ella Kissi- Debrah, on whose tragic early death a coroner concluded: “Ella died of asthma contributed to by exposure to excessive air pollution”, have been campaigning to get decent air pollution targets in the new law.
- Environmental governance – under Part 1, the Act focusses on targets, improvement plans, monitoring, principles, and reporting. While there is a focus on future action in the form of secondary legislation which the Secretary of State must draft, this also contains requirements that take immediate effect.
- Environmental regulation – under Chapter 2, the Act sets out the responsibilities of the Office of Environmental Protection (OEP) including those relating to scrutiny, advice and importantly enforcement of the provisions of the Act.
- Waste and resource efficiency – Part 3 of the Act sets out requirements on producers and national authorities. These come into force either immediately (9 November 2021), after 2 months (9 January 2022) or at the point that the Secretary of State “by regulations appoints”.
- Air quality and environmental recall – Part 4 of the Act sets out requirements relating to the local air quality management framework, smoke control areas and vehicle recall.
Nov 10, 2021 · 10 November 2021. This was published ... Through the Act, we will clean up the country’s air, restore natural habitats, increase biodiversity, reduce waste and make better use of our resources.
Nov 9, 2021 · 9 November 2021. Getty Images. The government's Environment Bill has been approved by Parliament, following a lengthy battle over the amount of sewage released into rivers. The House of Lords had ...
Aug 3, 2023 · The Environment Act of 2021 serves to assist local governments with areas such as waste, recycling, air and water quality, and protecting nature – such as the U.K. Greenbelt. Ultimately, the new Environment Act helps the country to establish their own personal environmental goals, while also improving the communication between the central and ...
2021 (“the Act”). The Act was billed as “the most ambitious environmental programme of any country on earth” – admittedly in the Conservative Party Manifesto in 2019 (see here, p. 5 of the PDF), where understatements are rare. But the Act as a whole was clearly envisaged as a watershed moment for the protection of the environment in ...
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The Environment Act, which became law in 2021, acts as the UK’s new framework of environmental protection. Once the UK left the EU, rules on nature protection, water quality, clean air and other environmental protections that originally came from Brussels were at risk. This Act is intended to fill the gap.
