Policy focus: integrated land and water management

• The agricultural transition plan for England
• The environmental land management scheme is our moonshot at nature recovery. It mustn’t be watered down
• Explainer: Setting long-term targets under the Environment Bill
• The new Environment Bill: 5 things you need to know
• Woodland creation the right way, in the right place for multiple environmental benefit
• The new Agriculture Bill: 5 things to know
• We need soils but they’re under threat
• Stop Food Waste (to)Day
• Conservation covenants: securing long-term environmental benefit
• Agriculture and biodiversity: Spreading best practice
• Net Gain changer
• 5 Steps Towards Net Zero Agriculture
• Nitrogen related pollution is bad news all round
• Agriculture: Water User, Water Polluter, Water Protector

25 Year Environment Plan: ambition to realisation

In this report we thoroughly reviewed existing delivery efforts, explored the barriers bodies face and produced a set of six recommendations for government.

Environmental Net Gain: Measurement, Delivery and Application

This document summarises presentations and discussion at the CIWEM Environmental Net Gain: Measurement, Delivery and Application conference held on 30th October 2018. It also sets out the collective priorities expressed by delegates for future mainstreaming and development of BNG and wider ENG.

• Nature-based solutions and the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme webinar series
  Part 1
  Part 2
  Part 3
• Regenerative agriculture in the south west
  Part 1
  Part 2
• Natural flood management and Eddleston Water modelling
• Estuary Edges: Replacing man made barriers with a variety of habitats webinar

Protecting and Enhancing Soils

This PPS discusses why soils are so important, what threats they’re facing, past policy action and recommends changes we need to see to protect and enhance soils in future.

• Environmental Land Management policy discussion document DEFRA
• Sustainable Farming and our Land Welsh Government
• National Food Strategy submission with the Environmental Policy Forum
• Environmental Principles and Governance in Wales Post European Union Exit Welsh Government
• Environmental principles and governance after Brexit Scottish Government
• Invasive Species Inquiry Environmental Audit Committee
• Conservation covenants DEFRA
• Net gain proposals DEFRA
• Scrutiny of the draft Environment (Principles and Governance) Bill Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and Environmental Audit Committee