- Environment weekly highlights—14 November 2019
- In this issue:
- Air emissions and climate change
- High Court rules that police ban of Extinction Rebellion protests was unlawful
- Commission Delegated Regulation aligning the auctioning of greenhouse gas emission allowances with the EU ETS rules and the classification of allowances as financial instruments under MiFID II published in OJ
- Brexit
- Environment (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc) (No 2) Regulations 2019
- Energy efficiency and buildings
- Environmental ambition for building council
- Energy for environmental lawyers
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- RenewableUK calls for political parties to get behind manifesto
- Ofgems request for a new EPC to support the claimants accreditation application was not ultra vires (R (on the application of Farmiloe) v Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and another)
- Funding competition for offshore wind research and development projects
- Environmental enforcement and prosecutions
- Triple conviction for illegal waste disposal in Havant
- More than 5 tonnes of glass eels seized and 154 smugglers arrested in 2018–19
- Environmental enforcement round-up—12 November 2019
- Environmental issues in transactions
- The Islamic Development Bank finalises sustainable finance framework and signs MoU with EIB
- Environmental taxes, reliefs and incentives
- Welsh landfill disposals tax technical guidance
- Marine
- New Welsh marine plan targets fishing, tourism, shipping and construction
- Water, flooding and drainage
- Environment Agency working to reduce flood impact across Northern England
- Flooding prompts government to activate emergency Bellwin scheme
- Updated benefits estimation tool to support environmental plans
- Waste
- Local Government Associate calls for clearer recycling labelling
- LexTalk®Environment: a Lexis®PSL community
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- New and updated content
- New Practice Note
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- Dates for your diary
- Trackers
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Article summary
This week's edition of Environment weekly highlights includes the Environment Agency announcing that it is working to reduce flood impact across Northern England, the High Court ruling in Baroness Jenny Jones & Others v The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis the police that the ban of Extinction Rebellion protests unlawful, release by the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) of a sector ambition statement, in partnership with UKGBC members, announcing that ‘by 2030, all buildings and infrastructure will, throughout their lifetime, be climate resilient and maximise environmental net gains, through the prioritisation of nature-based solution’ and a call from the Local Government Association (LGA) for clearer labelling and higher charges for hard to recycle products in an effort to increase recycling rates, together with the latest environmental enforcement prosecutions.
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