Last week, the European Commission decided to extend the implementation period for its deforestation regulation by 12 months for large companies and 18 months for ...
Coherent and strategic approach to environmental policy in the UK
Now that the UK and its constituent nations devise their own environmental policy in a new governance and institutional landscape post Brexit; IEEP UK’s work in this area examines how a coherent and strategic approach can be built to better serve environmental protection in the UK.
We examine the mechanics and processes behind the formulation and implementation of environmental policies, ask questions about how it could be done better and take a holistic view of environmental governance. Our work is spread across a wide, often cross-cutting, range of issues.
Key tasks include monitoring current developments in EU and UK environmental policy, including the role of new bodies like the Office for Environmental Protection and Environmental Standards Scotland; the application of environmental principles, assessing environmental policy integration and policy coherence, assessing policy implementation and enforcement, and looking at the global dimension of UK environmental policy.
IEEP UK has produced a wide range of reports in this thematic area of work and these are listed below.
Latest news
On the 4 September, the Government laid a new Bill before Parliament, rather drily called the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill. To many, this innocuous ...
On 18 July, the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) comes into force. It replaces the earlier, 2009 Ecodesign Directive, and establishes a framework for ...
The last 6 months have seen a high volume of legislative files completed. In fact, the months leading up to the elections in June saw ...
Latest publications
Policy gap analysis on the major nitrogen flows and losses in the UK ...
Briefing looking at the environmental implications of this Bill for product standards in the UK ...
Questions for the new UK Government on its chemical policy in an international context ...
With elections due in the UK and the EU in the next year, this IEEP UK report sets out why a more cooperative and considered ...