@ruthmchambers

🌍 Senior fellow @GreenAllianceUK. Chair, Foodrise. Hon Prof @ucllaw_env. Advisory board @RiverActionUK. Conservation Advisory Committee @Natures_Voice

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Joined November 2009
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🌋 ⚖️ 🌳 Who remembers when thousands of environmental laws nearly disappeared over a cliff?* 📑 In our new briefing, we tell the story of retained EU laws and look to their future. * Luckily this didn’t happen thanks to civil society and parliament. green-alliance.org.uk/briefi…

The fate of retained EU laws since Brexit » Green Alliance

Green Alliance is an independent think tank and charity focused on ambitious leadership for the environment

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My latest @GreenAllianceUK blog makes the case for the right to protest on the environment to be restored. It’s not too late to reverse this worrying anti-democratic direction of travel but the government must act now. greenallianceblog.org.uk/202…

The right to protest on the environment must be restored

Five years ago, I reflected on the role that civil disobedience and protests have played in the environmental movement and the worrying direction of travel prompted by the backlash to Extinction Re…

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🌎 Recent rollbacks in Brazil, Ecuador & the US show how fragile environmental governance systems can be. 🍃 In this new @GreenAllianceUK blog, I look at how the UK can strengthen environmental protections to help them withstand changing political winds. greenallianceblog.org.uk/202…

The UK needs to strengthen, not rollback, its environmental protections

Across the world, governance systems that protect precious environments and people are being dismantled. This may feel a far cry from the cut and thrust of domestic politics, but there are already …

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🗓️ Today marks one year since @DefraGovUK launched a ‘rapid review’ of the Environmental Improvement Plan. 🪟 @OfficeforEP has warned the window to get on track to meet environmental goals will soon slam shut. 👀 Safe to say there’s a lot riding on the new plan.
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A new Bill introduced in @SeneddWales seeks to address the environmental governance gap post-Brexit and set targets to tackle the nature crisis in Wales. Read more from guest author @ruthmchambers: lnkd.in/e74TkF_j Subscribe: lnkd.in/eX6CStUw #EnvironmentalLaw
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🐘 I asked Dame Glenys Stacey at today’s launch of the @OfficeforEP report on environmental progress, how should Defra Secretary @SteveReedMP 'eat an elephant'? 📗 The OEP's assessment is vast, with calls for action on many fronts. ⏱️ Where should he start?
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Her thoughts: 🔖 Make the most of the review of the environmental improvement plan 🚜 Boost take up of nature friendly farming schemes 🌊 Take urgent action on the marine environment 🌳 Ensure the planning system delivers for nature 🚪 Bang on Treasury’s door
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Government has the chance to get on track to meet legal environmental commitments – but the window of opportunity is closing fast, we warn in our latest annual progress report. Read more about our report here bit.ly/4hj23Kw
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🔍 @OfficeforEP has assessed government progress on the environment in 2023-24. 📉 The verdict? It's largely off track. 🚀 This government can catch up if it acts now. theoep.org.uk/report/governm…
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As 2024 draws to a close, here’s a round up of ‘unfinished business’ on environmental legislation. 5️⃣ There are five priorities we hope the government will tackle at pace in 2025. green-alliance.org.uk/wp-con…
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🏡 Sustainable drainage schemes help reduce urban flooding and must be integrated into new developments. The 2010 Flood and Water Management Act introduced a legal requirement for this but the relevant section (Schedule 3) is yet to be activated.
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🦋 🌄 Today is the 75th anniversary of the founding legislation for National Parks joining the statute book. It’s timely therefore to ask when the government will activate the law to strengthen the link between National Park management plans and the delivery of nature targets.
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📜 Welcome clarification from @LucyMPowell that environmental principles will "shortly" feature in the government guide on how to write new laws. 🙏 Thanks @EllieChowns for raising this important issue in Parliament. ⏰ We hope "shortly" = January. questions-statements.parliam…
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Great to attend tonight's @Campaign4Parks #NationalPark Protector Awards 🏆with @RoseONei11 @RSBenwell @ruthmchambers @natparksengland @NatLandAssoc @Sion_McG @CampaignerKate @KitStoner @KJ_H4wkins @MarianSpain @Haroon_Mota and many more
Campaign for National Parks@Campaign4Parks11 Dec 2024
🏆 The winner of the 2024 Marsh National Park Nature Award is....Kingsdale Head Farm! @WildKingsdale 🌳 Runners up are Hadrian's Wall: Recovering Nature and Wild Haweswater @WildHaweswater Thank you to @MarshAwards for sponsoring this award
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📉 Today the government published revised indicators of how well biodiversity is doing in England. The answer? Not very. 🔴 Overall more indicators are deteriorating or showing no change than improving, over both the long and short term. This is worrying gov.uk/government/statistics…
This figures highlights that more biodiversity indicators are deteriorating or showing no change than improving, over both the long and short term.

ALT This figures highlights that more biodiversity indicators are deteriorating or showing no change than improving, over both the long and short term.

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⏰ While making for solemn reading, this publication is timely as it provides an important backdrop for upcoming government decisions on the Environmental Improvement Plan, spending review, land use framework and planning reforms.
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🙏 Many thanks to the officials who have worked so diligently to gather data, assess trends and prepare and test these Official Statistics.
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