Environmental Improvement Plan: World leading ambition or business-as-usual?

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Reheating the same old promises and expecting different results is the 'very definition of insanity', warns the Wildlife Trusts' Craig Bennett

"The most ambitious environmental programme of any country on earth." This was the pledge made in the 2019 Conservative Manifesto and it was the promise this government were elected to deliver. It is...

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