Select committee: Environmental Audit Committee
Recommendation 15
First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust?
Published 30 Jun 2021
Paragraph 84
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The Government’s new species abundance target for 2030 provides a potential mechanism for the measurement of progress on addressing biodiversity loss, and a driver for consequent actions. We recommend that once the target is established, regular, formal reviews of progress against the target should be required to be made, to feed into decision-making at senior levels in all Government departments. Ministers 116 Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust? should also report regularly to Parliament on projected and current performance against the target and associated biodiversity outcome measurements on species distribution, extinction risk, habitat extent and condition.
From: Environmental Audit Committee, First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust? (HC 136), paragraph 84, 30 June 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 30 September 2021 (deadline 30 August 2021).