Environment white paper Flashcards
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Formation
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- Core policies of the NEWP reflect the Governments belief that it is important to manage ecosystems with an integrated approach to achieve a wider range of services and benefits
- Builds on the UK National Ecosystem Assessment, published in June 2011
- Contains a wealth of scientific evidence on the state of the natural environment and provides assessments of the benefits that nature provides to the UK
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4 key outcomes
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- Making connections to protect and improve our natural environment
- Growing a green economy
- Reconnecting people and nature
- International and EU leadership
3
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Making connections to protect and improve our natural environment
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- Supporting local nature partnerships (to strengthen local action)
- New Nature Improvement Areas (in response to recommendations in Lawton’s report to enhance and connect nature on significant scale)
- Ecologically coherent planning
- Piloting biodiversity offset to reduce the impacts of development on biodiversity
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Growing a green economy
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- A new, independent Natural Capital Committee
- Inclusion of natural capital in our national accounts
- Actions to support the creation of new markets for green goods and services
- New support and guidance for businesses
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Reconnecting people and nature
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- Improving public health locally by making green space available to everyone
- Action to get more children learning outdoors
- A new Green Areas designations (empowering local communities to protect local environments that are important to them
- Help for everyone to do the right thing
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International and EU leadership
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- Strong implementation pf the Nagoya commitments on biodiversity
- A new intergovernmental platform for biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Helping developing countries to value their ecosystems
- Reform the CAP and Common Fishery Policy
- Support for the EU roadmap for a resource efficient Europe
