Select committee: Environmental Audit Committee
Recommendation 6
First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust?
Published 30 Jun 2021
Paragraph 61
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We recommend that the Government introduce, preferably via the Environment Bill currently before Parliament, a mechanism for statutory interim targets to ensure that its proposed species abundance target is met to halt the decline of nature by 2030. We further recommend that the scope of the proposed 2030 target be extended to encompass legally binding outcome measures on species distribution, extinction risk, habitat extent and condition: it must also reinstate the expired target for Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
From: Environmental Audit Committee, First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust? (HC 136), paragraph 61, 30 June 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 30 September 2021 (deadline 30 August 2021).