Environmental Audit - First Report

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 13 December 2000.

CONTENTS

Terms of Reference

REPORT

Summary including key conclusions and recommendations

Introduction

Establishment

Background

Remit

Work of the Committee

Assessing policies
Individual areas

Tax and spending

Greening government

Greening the EU

Auditing performance against targets

Impact of the Committee

Indicators
Government responses

Government statements on the EAC

Parliament

Wider policy community

Media

Academic verdict

Targets

Environmental reporting

Central direction

Audit framework

Conclusions

The Global Scene

International examples

Formal green auditing

The UK

Conclusions and recommendations

Next steps

Lessons

An environmental auditor for the UK

The way forward

Annexes:

A  Draft Bill: Environmental Audit

B  Visit to Canada:- Ottawa and Toronto

Environmental audit in Canada

C  Activity of the Committee

D  Impact of the Committee

Minutes of Proceedings relating to the Report

Evidence

List of witnesses

List of Memoranda included in the Minutes of Evidence

List of appendices to the Minutes of Evidence

MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 67-II)

Tuesday 18 April 2000
Thursday 8 June 2000

APPENDICES TO THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 67-II)

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Prepared 9 January 2001