House of Commons - An environmental scorecard - Environmental Audit Committee

Environmental Audit Committee - Fifth Report
An environmental scorecard

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 10 September 2014.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 A Scorecard

Our inquiry

Our Scorecard assessments

Reds

Ambers

Measuring progress

2 Policy levers

Embedding the environment in policy making

Fiscal incentives and penalties

Regulation

Public engagement and nudge

Monitoring, reporting and accountability

Conclusions: the need for a strategy and accountability

Annex: Our scorecard assessment

Emissions and climate change

Air pollution

Biodiversity

Forests

Soils

Flooding and coastal protection

Resource efficiency and waste

The freshwater environment

Water availability

The marine environment

Appendix 1: Nature Check 2013

Appendix 2: 2020 Biodiversity Indicators

Published written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament