Last year, the threat of sudden and large-scale revocation of environmental law in the UK was removed by successful parliamentary and civil society resistance to ...
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
EU lawmakers have agreed to update the urban waste water treatment (UWWT) directive to tighten restrictions on water pollution. The directive creates new obligations to ...
With greenhouse gas emissions reduction, agriculture has proved to be one of the sectors with the most limited progress and one where the debate around ...
Kaley Hart and Nigel Haigh OBE have been appointed as expert members to advise the Office for Environmental Protection. ...
Latest publications
Ahead of our next webinar, "The air we breathe: Regional and local perspectives on air quality policy in the EU and UK", IEEP UK has ...
The Institute for European Environmental Policy UK (IEEP UK) is a sustainability think tank with over 40 years of experience. As part of the broader ...
There has been much concern about the discharge of untreated sewage in the UK – in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. This includes both ...
