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Environment weekly highlights—19 June 2025

Published on: 19 June 2025

Table of contents

  • Key developments and materials
  • Spending Review 2025—Key Energy and Environment announcements
  • 2025 UN Ocean Conference round-up—9–13 June 2025 
  • Brexit
  • EU-UK trade dispute—upholding the Sandeel Ban
  • Air emissions and climate change
  • DESNZ announces £9.4bn funding package for carbon capture and storage projects
  • EA publishes response to consultation on amine-based carbon capture EALs
  • Road Vehicles (Type-Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
  • Contamination and pollution
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Article summary

This week's edition of Environment weekly highlights includes: news analysis on the Key Energy and Environment announcements from the Spending Review 2025, the Arbitration Tribunal's final decision to uphold the ban on Sandeel fishing in the UK waters of the North Sea and how UK insurers are pressing the government for a long-term flood resilience plan. In addition this week, we cover a round-up of the 2025 UN Ocean Conference, the decision in R (on the application of Clear The Air In Havering) v Havering London Borough Council relating to contaminated land, and the Environment Agency action plan to secure England’s future water supply.

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