Source · Select Committees · Environmental Audit Committee
Recommendation 29
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Acknowledged
Paragraph: 134
We welcome the funding announcements and increased public expenditure on international biodiversity, however international conservation...
Conclusion
We welcome the funding announcements and increased public expenditure on international biodiversity, however international conservation funding is still greatly outstripped by subsidies which cheapen the exploitation of the natural environment. The Government cannot spend more exploiting the natural environment than conserving it if climate change and biodiversity are to be tackled in any meaningful way. Information on the extent of subsidies harmful to biodiversity is absent from the public domain, despite this information being necessary to achieve Aichi Biodiversity Target 3.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government states it is reviewing how to better support environmental objectives, including embedding net zero into policy decisions, improving natural capital estimates, and participating in green budgeting initiatives, but does not commit to addressing the imbalance between conservation funding and harmful subsidies or providing information on the extent of such subsidies.
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Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government · verbatim extract
Acknowledged
We are transitioning from the damaging Common Agricultural Payment subsidies to payments that actively reward farmers for the delivery of environmental benefits, by introducing new schemes that reward actions that recover nature: the Sustainable Farming Incentive, the Local Nature Recovery scheme and the Landscape Recovery scheme. These schemes will pay for sustainable farming practices, improving animal health and welfare, mitigation of and adaptation to climate change, creating and preserving habitat, and making landscape-scale environmental changes. Further detail on how we are phasing out economic incentives which threaten conservation and restoration, can be found in our response to recommendation 14.
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