What makes a good environmental target?
Clarity, science and binding regular milestones are needed to develop stretching environmental targets, argues Matthew Farrow of the Environmental Industries Association
Defra recently announced the targets it plans to set under the Environment Bill. Such targets, it seems, have become the standard currency of modern policy making: no keynote speech, consultation document,...
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