EIP meaning

In this issue: Key developments and materials Air emissions and climate change Energy efficiency and buildings Energy efficiency of products Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental disputes and proceedings ESG and sustainability Hazardous substances and chemicals Marine Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Waste Water, flooding and drainage Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Useful information Key developments and materials Northern Ireland’s first Environmental Improvement Plan On 27 September 2024, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) unveiled Northern Ireland’s (NI) inaugural Environment Improvement Plan (EIP). Brendan Martyn, Director, and Caitlin McPeake, Solicitor, at Cleaver Fulton Rankin, share their views on the EIP. See News Analysis: Northern Ireland’s first Environmental Improvement Plan. UK Industrial Strategy Green Paper and Legal Services Invest 2035, the government’s industrial strategy green paper, was introduced at the International Investment Summit on 14 October 2024. A finalised...

In this issue: Air emissions and climate change Energy efficiency and buildings Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental disputes and proceedings Environmental information ESG and sustainability Hazardous substances and chemicals Marine Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Waste Waste producer responsibility regimes Water, flooding and drainage Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content United Kingdom Environmental Law Association (UKELA) Annual Conference Air emissions and climate change DESNZ releases evaluations of CCUS and Industrial Fuel Switching and Hydrogen Supply innovation programmes The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has issued two independent evaluations of its Energy Innovation Programme (EIP). The first evaluation reviews the Carbon Capture and Utilisation Demonstration (CCUD) innovation programme, the Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS) Innovation programme, and the Accelerating CCS Technologies (ACT) programme, spanning 2016–21. The second evaluation examines the £21m Industrial Fuel Switching and £33m Hydrogen Supply programmes. Both evaluations consider...

In this issue: Key developments and materials Air emissions and climate change Energy efficiency and buildings Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental disputes and proceedings Environmental information ESG and sustainability Hazardous substances and chemicals Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Water, flooding and drainage Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Useful information Key developments and materials OEP publishes letter of advice to government on EIP review The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has issued a letter of advice to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Steve Reed, covering the review and update of the government’s Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP). This follows Reed’s announcement of a rapid review of the EIP and his subsequent request for OEP advice. See: LNB News 16/09/2024 15. Air emissions and climate change OEUK publishes 2024 Emissions Reduction Report Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) has released its...

National policy 25-Year Environment Plan —the 25-Year Environment Plan outlines the government’s commitments to enhance the environment within a generation. The Environmental Improvement Plan 2023 (EIP 2023) for England was the first statutory update to the 25-Year Environment Plan under the Environment Act 2021 (EA 2021). On 1 December 2025, it was replaced by the Environmental Improvement Plan 2025 (EIP 2025), now the current environmental improvement plan for EA 2021 purposes. EIP 2025 renews the long-term framework for achieving environmental outcomes, revises the interim targets in EIP 2023 and adds two new interim targets. EIP 2025 is pertinent to waste planning as part of the broader policy to improve resource efficiency and drive the move to a more circular economy, complementing the Resources and Waste Strategy and the Waste Management Plan for England (see below). Resources and Waste Strategy The Resources and Waste Strategy sets out how the government intends to conserve material resources by cutting waste, promoting resource efficiency and moving towards a circular economy in...

This Practice Note examines UK policy, law and legislation in relation to biodiversity...

Introduction To frame why protected nature sites are essential, the UK State of Nature Report (2023) confirmed that wildlife across the UK continues to dwindle. There has been marked attrition of plants, animals and fungi. The Report identifies the leading drivers of this downturn as development, patterns of land use and agriculture, climate change, unsustainable fishing, and activity at sea linked to development. In the same vein, the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, in his ‘State of Climate and Nature’ statement to the House of Commons on 14 July 2025, observed that climate change and the degradation of nature are inseparable and exacerbate one another. Around the world, species are being lost at a rate far exceeding any other period in human history. In Britain, one quarter of mammals and almost half of bird species now face extinction risk, with birds including starlings, turtle doves and grey partridges in jeopardy...