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Environmental Audit Committee

From taxes to targets: How can the UK curb its offshore carbon emissions?
From taxes to targets: How can the UK curb its offshore carbon emissions?

Major report makes the case for new carbon tax on imported goods and goods, as the Environment Secretary reveals the UK's climate targets could eventually cover carbon embodied in imported goods

  • Carbon Trading
  • 15 January 2021
Green Homes Grant scheme: MPs urge improvements in response to major teething issues
Green Homes Grant scheme: MPs urge improvements in response to major teething issues

Survey by Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee reveals 'poor experience' among many applicants for the schemes' vouchers

  • Buildings
  • 14 December 2020
Are Amazon and Apple 'dodging responsibility' for the escalating e-waste crisis?
Are Amazon and Apple 'dodging responsibility' for the escalating e-waste crisis?

Environmental Audit Commitee argues electronic and retail giants need to join their brick and mortar rivals in contributing more to a circular economy, but the tech powerhouses insist they are leading efforts to tackle global e-waste mountain

  • Waste
  • 26 November 2020
MPs and chemicals industry welcome extension of UK REACH deadlines
MPs and chemicals industry welcome extension of UK REACH deadlines

Environmental Audit Committee welcomes move to give firms more time to register chemicals use with post-Brexit scheme

  • Policy
  • 09 September 2020
MPs warn UK hydrogen development hamstrung by lack of strategy
MPs warn UK hydrogen development hamstrung by lack of strategy

Environmental Audit Committee voices fears the UK risks missing out on fast-emerging green hydrogen opportunity

  • Policy
  • 06 August 2020
Green recovery can spur innovation, create jobs, and boost economy, argue senior MPs
Green recovery can spur innovation, create jobs, and boost economy, argue senior MPs

Select Committee Chairs join wave of calls for a green recovery in letter to Chancellor that warns economic stimulus channeled towards carbon-intensive infrastructure projects would be a 'historic mistake'

  • Policy
  • 29 June 2020
The government must follow the science by setting out a clear net zero policy plan
The government must follow the science by setting out a clear net zero policy plan

Decisions made during this Parliament on infrastructure and investment will be critical in delivering a net zero economy, argues EAC chair Philip Dunne MP

  • Politics
  • 26 June 2020
'Supporting stranding': UK Export Finance accused of funding oil projects in defiance of Paris Agreement goals
'Supporting stranding': UK Export Finance accused of funding oil projects in defiance of Paris Agreement goals

New analysis from Carbon Tracker warns UK government financing for upstream oil and gas projects in Brazil and Ghana is 'failing the Paris test'

  • Infrastructure
  • 12 June 2020
Government pledges £2bn export finance for overseas 'clean growth' projects
Government pledges £2bn export finance for overseas 'clean growth' projects

Move follows criticism from MPs over levels of support UK Export Finance has given to fossil fuel projects in low and middle income countries in recent years

  • Investment
  • 13 March 2020
Pressure on the government to grasp the net zero opportunity cannot be relaxed
Pressure on the government to grasp the net zero opportunity cannot be relaxed

From net zero to post-Brexit green protections, newly-elected chair of the Environmental Audit Committee Philip Dunne MP sets outs his ambitions for the coming Parliament

  • Politics
  • 13 February 2020
Philip Dunne elected chair of the Environmental Audit Committee
Philip Dunne elected chair of the Environmental Audit Committee

Conservative MP for Ludlow says he looks forward to “building on the success” of the influential committee

  • Politics
  • 31 January 2020
Rachel Reeves reelected to BEIS Select Committee Post
Rachel Reeves reelected to BEIS Select Committee Post

Reeves is trying to use the role to reform the UK’s private audit sector, recently hit by a series of scandals including Carillion

  • Policy
  • 29 January 2020
Government under fire over response to 'out of date' toxic furniture standards
Government under fire over response to 'out of date' toxic furniture standards

MPs slam 'inaction' from BEIS after it publishes proposed response to consultation it held nearly three years ago

  • Policy
  • 19 July 2019
MPs to probe problem of e-waste in face of mounting crisis
MPs to probe problem of e-waste in face of mounting crisis

The UK is one of Europe's worst offenders for illegally exporting electronic waste to developing countries

  • Policy
  • 27 June 2019
Not so fast fashion
Not so fast fashion

The government's failure to act on fashion waste is damning evidence Ministers do not yet comprehend the environmental crisis, but businesses need to be aware reforms will come eventually

  • Waste
  • 19 June 2019
MPs urge UK to stop financing fossil fuel projects in developing countries by 2021
MPs urge UK to stop financing fossil fuel projects in developing countries by 2021

UK spent £2.4bn on fossil fuel projects in low and middle income countries over past five years, says Environmental Audit Committee

  • Policy
  • 10 June 2019
Ted Baker, Farfetch and FW pledge to tackle fashion waste
Ted Baker, Farfetch and FW pledge to tackle fashion waste

New project to promote circular fashion launches in London with retailers set to trial range of waste-fighting initiatives

  • Supplier
  • 30 May 2019
'Significant regression': MPs blast government's post-Brexit environmental protection plans
'Significant regression': MPs blast government's post-Brexit environmental protection plans

Draft Environment Bill sets out worse environmental and climate change safeguards for UK than current EU policy, EFRA committee warns

  • Legislation
  • 30 April 2019
 MPs warn post-Brexit environment plans fall 'woefully short'
MPs warn post-Brexit environment plans fall 'woefully short'

Proposals to replace EU rules 'downgrade' green principles, says cross-party committee

  • Legislation
  • 26 April 2019
Green Alliance: UK must plant 70,000 hectares of trees a year to combat climate change
Green Alliance: UK must plant 70,000 hectares of trees a year to combat climate change

Think tank calls for mass woodland planting drive, a ban on peatland burning, and a focus on low carbon farming methods in new report - but is the government listening?

  • Policy
  • 25 April 2019
UK government under fire for 'tacit acceptance' of Arctic oil and gas activity
UK government under fire for 'tacit acceptance' of Arctic oil and gas activity

But Foreign Office hits back at 'baseless' claims from Environmental Audit Committee that UK encourages oil and gas exploration in the Arctic

  • Policy
  • 16 March 2019
Throwaway fashion: Retailers should be forced to pay for textile clean-up, say MPs
Throwaway fashion: Retailers should be forced to pay for textile clean-up, say MPs

Government should introduce producer responsibility charges for clothing to pay for collection and recycling systems, MPs conclude following major investigation

  • Policy
  • 19 February 2019
Are businesses matching green efforts with climate-safe staff pensions?
Are businesses matching green efforts with climate-safe staff pensions?

Only a small number of FTSE 100 firms' pension schemes have shifted their investment approach to take account of climate-related risks, ShareAction research finds

  • Investment
  • 12 February 2019
Has the EAC uncovered Britain's two-tier green fashion industry?
Has the EAC uncovered Britain's two-tier green fashion industry?

Cohort of fast fashion brands chastised for lagging behind rest of the industry when it comes to environmental action

  • Supply chain
  • 31 January 2019
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