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Environmental Audit Committee retweeted
“One of the most important defences against the threat of climate change”
The Environmental Audit Committee heard from Sally Nex, Advocate at the Peat-free Partnership on the importance of protecting UK peatlands and their capability to store large quantities of carbon.
Environmental Audit Committee retweeted
👋 We welcomed @CommonsEAC to @AIAZero and Entopia yesterday alongside experts from finance, aviation, policy & the built environment to support MPs in shaping bold, green policy.
🔗: cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/cisl-wel…
@MartinRhodes21 @tobyperkinsmp @pippaheylings
Environmental Audit Committee retweeted
Today's sitting in the House of Commons has resumed.
Chair of the @CommonsEAC @tobyperkinsmp is making a Select Committee Statement on the First Report of the Environmental Audit Committee, The role of natural capital in the UK’s green economy.
Watch live ⬇️
Environmental Audit Committee retweeted
🍃 Are ecologists properly resourced to ensure nature protection in housebuilding?
🏘️ We're holding a session on environmental sustainability and housing.
➡️ Find out more: committees.parliament.uk/eve…
ALT Image of houses and roads with text reading: Are local authorities equipped to protect nature in the bid to build 1.5 million homes? 2.30pm, Wednesday 5 February, Watch on Parliament live.
Environmental Audit Committee retweeted
“Whilst these ministers are my colleagues and friends, I am here to make sure we get to the truth...”
Read what @CommonsEAC's @tobyperkinsmp thinks of Starmer's growth mission, DEFRA, and why he won’t be going easy on his colleagues... ⬇️
endsreport.com/article/19044…
Environmental Audit Committee retweeted
Pleased to speak today at Innovation Zero conference on a panel on Understanding and Growing Natural Capital Markets, given @CommonsEAC inquiry on natural capital.
Spoke about UK’s recent work developing natural capital frameworks & world first biodiversity net gain policy.
Environmental Audit Committee retweeted
📢 NEWS: Government response to MP inquiry ‘lacks a clear plan’ to tackle overheating
Read our reaction to the Government's response to recommendations made in the @CommonsEAC report - which included calls based on our evidence: ow.ly/rfaB50Rsy21
Environmental Audit Committee retweeted
We are inviting applications to a Specialist Adviser vacancy, to support our inquiry into #ClimateChange and #Security.
The deadline to apply is 12pm Thursday 11 April.
👇Click below for more info: committees.parliament.uk/com…
Environmental Audit Committee retweeted
Can you help Parliament examine how well prepared the UK is to handle #ClimateChange-related threats to security?
We're inviting applications to a Specialist Adviser vacancy supporting our new inquiry. The deadline to apply is 12pm Thurs 11 April
👇Info: committees.parliament.uk/com…
Environmental Audit Committee retweeted
Delegación del Parlamento británico realza acción conjunta para enfrentar cambio climático. Parlamentarios de comités de medio ambiente y de investigación polar visitaron la UMAG para conocer respecto a investigaciones en áreas antártica y subantártica. bit.ly/3OgO244
Environmental Audit Committee retweeted
🌲🌳The UK must include sustainability in its deforestation regulations to avoid weakening laws around the world and protect our forests.
📖 Read our report on #Deforestation: bit.ly/48AKQYP
ALT The UK Timber Regulations must include sustainability, not just legality. Read our report ‘The UK’s contribution to tackling global deforestation’.
Environmental Audit Committee retweeted
How do committees make a difference in Parliament? We caught up with the Chairs of eight committees as part of Parliament Week to get their thoughts #UKPW
Environmental Audit Committee retweeted
Looking forward to our seminar with @GLOBE_intl & @SPICe_Research on how Parliaments can respond to #COP28 .
We'll hear from @SarahBoyack, @CedricFrolick from @ParliamentofRSA & @Dunne4Ludlow from @CommonsEAC
Watch online at 12.30pm [UK time]:
scotlandfutureforum.org/cop2…
Environmental Audit Committee retweeted
We are seeking written evidence to inform a hearing in October on ‘The Environmental Sustainability of the Department for Education’.
📩 You can send your views by email, or formally via our online evidence portal, until 6 October.
🔎 More info is at bit.ly/3sT0m2z
Environmental Audit Committee retweeted
📢We've launched a new inquiry into Urban Green Spaces.
We'll be looking at areas including:
🏙️ Urban environmental challenges
🌲 Green cover, air quality and flooding
🏙️Funding and initiatives
Give us your views by 20th October: committees.parliament.uk/cal…
Environmental Audit Committee retweeted
Today our Outdoor & Indoor #AirQuality targets inquiry hears from:
2.15pm:
· Cllr Darren Rodwell, @LGAcomms
· @deirdrecostigan, @londoncouncils
· Cllr Sarah Warren, @bathnes
· @SchwierPeter, @Essex_CC
📺: bit.ly/3RccTbt
🔎full witness details👇
bit.ly/3sGdcRG
Environmental Audit Committee retweeted
📩Our Sub-Committee’s inquiry on ‘The UK and the #Antarctic Environment’ is accepting written evidence until 5pm, Friday 15 September.
👉 Inquiry info: bit.ly/44TZCrD
🔎 Info on the inquiry Specialist Adviser vacancy, closing 12pm, 15 September: bit.ly/44K7Y5v
Environmental Audit Committee retweeted
📢We want to hear from you!
As part of our inquiry into #SoilHealth we have launched a survey to hear land managers' experiences when it comes to improving soils
🗣️Share your views by 21st August here 👇
forms.office.com/pages/respo…
ALT Share your views on Soil Health Take our survey by 21st August 2023
Environmental Audit Committee retweeted
Can you help Parliament examine how electricity networks should develop to support the #NetZero economy?
We are accepting applications for a Specialist Adviser vacancy to support our ‘Enabling sustainable electrification of the UK economy’ inquiry
Info👇
committees.parliament.uk/wor…
