Environmental law trackers and horizon scanning

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This subtopic brings together a series of trackers to enable you to keep up to date with key developments in relation to consultations, legislation and case law of interest to environmental lawyers in England and Wales. We also include EU law trackers, including relating to the European Commission’s European Green Deal, an environmental law divergence tracker, Environmental enforcement undertakings trackers which list key recent environmental enforcement undertakings accepted by environmental regulators under the Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008, the Environmental Civil Sanctions (England) Order 2010 and the Environmental Civil Sanctions (Wales) Order 2010 and a trackers displaying policy developments under the UK government’s 25 Year Environmental Plan (25 YEP).

Consultation and legislation trackers by topic

The following trackers display the current status and most recent developments of consultations being conducted by government departments (such as Defra), regulators (such as the Environment Agency (EA) and Natural Resources Wales (NRW)) and other bodies (such as the Welsh Government) and legislation of interest in relation to environmental law in England and Wales. They are arranged by topic and list consultations open from 1 January 2023 or opened at an earlier date

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