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We welcome the Government’s ambition to create a national Nature Recovery Network but believe far...
Recommendation
We welcome the Government’s ambition to create a national Nature Recovery Network but believe far more detail is needed to translate this ambition into transformative action. The Nature Recovery Network (NRN) is contained in the 25 Year Environment Plan, but there are currently no duties or actionable plans in place to create it. The Government needs a co-ordinated approach to ensure all the local nature recovery strategies (LNRS) together cover the whole of England. This requires national oversight and strategy. Given local authorities will design and deliver most of the Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS), they must be given greater resource to do so, including to employ local authority ecologists and having better access to ecological data. To realise this national vision the NRN also must be integrated and prioritised within the context of new planning reforms. And the Government needs to set out its thinking on how the host of proposed environmental and planning policies will come together into one cohesive strategy.
Government Response Summary
The government plans to publish a Nature Recovery Green Paper later this year, which will outline its vision and initial policy proposals for public consultation, to inform future tangible changes.
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Later this year we will publish a Nature Recovery Green Paper, setting out our approach to driving nature recovery in England and providing the primary vehicle for developing and engaging on our future plans and proposals. The paper will set out the government’s vision for how we will achieve our nature recovery ambitions across a number of key policy areas, on land and at sea, including our 30x30 commitment and the Nature Recovery Network, protected sites, species and wildlife law reform, and trees and forests. It will allow us to publicly consult on our initial policy proposals in these areas, and along with feedback from related consultations will allow us to consider how best to put tangible changes in place that will deliver on our goals of nature restoration. This is a significant opportunity to set out the immediate steps we must take to get on track to meeting our target to halt the decline in species abundance by 2030.
Source
Committee
Environmental Audit Committee
Inquiry
Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Report
First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust?
30 Jun 2021
HC 136
Timeline
Recommendation age
5.1 yrs
Report published
30 Jun 2021