Select committee: Environmental Audit Committee
Recommendation 67
First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust?
Published 30 Jun 2021
Paragraph 318
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The Government should include a Net Zero test of the 2021 Budget in its Net Zero Review. Net Zero tests should be refined for future fiscal events to assess the climate impacts of taxation, spending and resource decisions. The Government should develop nature tests to ensure spending packages are aligned with the Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework. A new fiscal rule should be added to the fiscal framework which focuses on balancing our demands on nature with nature’s supply.
From: Environmental Audit Committee, First Report - Biodiversity in the UK: bloom or bust? (HC 136), paragraph 318, 30 June 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 30 September 2021 (deadline 30 August 2021).