Submission to the National Policy Forum - The Pesticide Collaboration Tackling pesticide-related harms to protect biodiversity and human health The Labour Party manifesto should commit to a major reduction in [...]
The Retained EU Law Bill is currently at committee stage in the House of Lords. At committee stage, Peers have the opportunity to submit and debate amendments and discuss the [...]
What is the EIP? Five years ago the government launched the 25 Year Environment Plan (25YEP), and the Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP) 2023 for England is the first revision of [...]
Steph Morren unpacks the latest announcement on ELMS. Earlier in January, we heard from Mark Spencer – farming minister at Defra – about the Government’s plans for the roll-out of [...]
In light of the government's decision to once again grant the 'emergency' use of the banned bee-harming pesticide thiamethoxam - a type of neonicotinoid - on sugar beet in [...]
For immediate release - 23 January 2023 UK government allows ‘emergency’ use of banned bee-harming pesticide just days after EU tightens protections Today, 23 January 2023, the government has [...]
What is CBD COP15? This month in Montreal, Canada, delegates from around the world are meeting at COP15- the UN Conference on Biological Diversity, Conference of the Parties (COP15). The [...]
In the midst of the political chaos that gripped Westminster this autumn, on 22 September, the government tabled the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (REUL Bill). As the [...]
The UK Government's "dither and delay" approach to pesticide policy continues to put the health of our natural world at serious risk, sixty years after author Rachel Carson first [...]
Steph Morren has written this blog, introducing a new report from Wildfish, RSPB, Buglife and The Pesticide Collaboration called Chemical Pollution: The Silent Killer of UK Rivers. “The most [...]
