The House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee has raised significant concerns with environment monist er Rebecca Pow about the Draft Environmental Principles Policy Statement laid before Parliament in May.
In a letter, committee chair, Baroness Parminter, flagged among the following:
the insufficient weight given to environmental considerations in defining a proportionate response by ministers when considering the potential effects of a policy option;
the weak interpretation of the precautionary and integration principles in the draft policy statement;
the lack of urgency within the description of the prevention principle which aims to prevent environmental harm;
the need to clarify the consideration of the international impact of policy making as part of applying the environmental principles; and
the lack of a clear process to monitor departments’ implementation of the environmental principles.
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