Climate Change

Planning decision-makers should be held to account when it comes to compliance with the climate change duty, according to a new report. 

A round-up of RTPI blogs: 30 May-3 July, 2020

Restoring degraded habitats would see them absorb a third of the UK’s carbon emissions, suggests a report, as a wildlife charity insists that the climate and nature crises should be tackled together as one.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is consulting interested parties on how to ‘accelerate’ tree planting and improve the management of existing trees and woodlands – the results of which will inform an England Tree Strategy.