Environment weekly highlights—27 July 2017

Table of contents

• Air emissions and climate change
• Government publishes final air quality plan
• Companies and investors call for stronger leadership on climate change
• Marine
• Ban of sale and manufacture of microbeads confirmed
• Environmental information, access to justice
• Grounds to refuse requests for access to environmental information require strict interpretation
• Government accused of ‘moving the goalposts’ in High Court case
• Environmental issues in transactions
• The Bank of England’s response to climate change

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Article summary

This week’s edition of the Environment highlights includes details of the government’s final air quality plans which were published this week including an announcement that the government will end the sale of all conventional petrol and diesel cars from 2040. This week also saw confirmation that new legislation is set to be introduced later in 2017 to ban the sale and manufacture of microbeads in cosmetics and personal care products. We have also published a new practice note on above ground oil storage.