Environment weekly highlights—24 October 2019

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This week's edition of Environment weekly highlights includes the Prime Minister’s announcement that he will chair a new Cabinet Committee on Climate Change, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee’s inquiry into the Environment Bill calling for amendments to be made to ensure environmental protection maintains momentum post Brexit and the latest Brexit updates. This edition also includes information on new rules on reducing sulphur oxides from ship emissions from 1 January 2020, calls from the UN Environment Programme’s Finance Initiative (UNEPFI) for better data to be gathered on sustainable finance, announcements concerning the EU’s launch of the International Platform on Sustainable Finance (IPSF) and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) report into how the non-financial reporting regime in the UK is perceived by stakeholders. In addition, the Environment Agency has launched consultations on standard rule sets for waste and biowaste materials and the Department for Transport has opened a consultation into the possible introduction of green number plates for ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEV). We...