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Lexis®PSL Environment weekly highlights—28 April 2016

Lexis®PSL Environment weekly highlights—28 April 2016
Published on: 28 April 2016
Published by: LexisPSL
  • Lexis®PSL Environment weekly highlights—28 April 2016
  • In this issue:
  • New Planning module now live
  • Headlines (News updates & analysis)
  • Climate change—175 signatories to Paris Agreement
  • Climate change—HFCs and a Montreal Protocol amendment
  • Climate change—Recommendations on fifth carbon budget set out by Climate Change Committee
  • Air pollution—Committee says action needed to combat air pollution
  • Transport emissions—Research on vehicle emissions testing published
  • Transport emissions—Mandatory reporting obligation for ships to report fuel consumption
    • More...

Article summary

Welcome to the weekly highlights from the Lexis®PSL Environment team for the week ending 28 April 2016. This week’s edition of Environment highlights includes updates on climate change, air pollution, transport emissions, hazardous waste, access to environmental information, marine licenses, invasive species and weeds, and water industry regulation. New content includes Practice Notes on the 1979 Geneva Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution, fluorinated greenhouse gases, and a Q&A on maintenance of a culvert which serves a number of properties. Updated content includes the Impact of the Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) Regulations 2015. We have also launched a new Planning module, which is available free of charge to customers who currently subscribe to Lexis®PSL Environment. or take a trial to read the full analysis.

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