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Environmental Audit Committee
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We're a cross-party group of @houseofcommons.parliament.uk MPs who check the Government's work on environmental protection and sustainability. See what we're working on 👇
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We’ve published our report on airport expansion and climate and nature targets.

Read it here: publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...
November 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Our Chair, Toby Perkins MP, welcomes the Government’s New Carbon Budget Delivery Plan 👇
Image of MP toby perkins on a green background with text reading: “A key question is how this plan will make a solid contribution to reducing emissions on home soil, without outsourcing the problem to other countries. Reducing emissions in highly-polluting sectors must not result in those industries being shuttered completely and the emissions simply outsourced abroad. The Government’s plans need to rest on solid foundations and meaningful commitments.”
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Our session on International Climate Negotiations:COP30 has started.

Watch live: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
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Tomorrow at 2.30pm we're exploring what the UK should be looking to achieve at next months Climate Change Negotiations. We'll be hearing from Ambassador to the UK, Antônio de Aguiar Patriota and Nigel Topping, Chair of the Climate Change Committee.

➡️ committees.parliament.uk/event/25258/...
Evidence Session, International Climate Negotiations: COP30 Environmental Audit Committee. Photo is of an aerial view of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, a dense forest with a river running through it.
October 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Tomorrow at 2.30pm we're exploring what the UK should be looking to achieve at next months Climate Change Negotiations. We'll be hearing from Ambassador to the UK, Antônio de Aguiar Patriota and Nigel Topping, Chair of the Climate Change Committee.

➡️ committees.parliament.uk/event/25258/...
Evidence Session, International Climate Negotiations: COP30 Environmental Audit Committee. Photo is of an aerial view of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, a dense forest with a river running through it.
October 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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We've published our report on flood resilience in England.

Find out more: committees.parliament.uk/committee/62...
Image of flooded fields with text reading: 6.3 million properties are at risk of flooding in the UK, but awareness of the risks is dangerously low. Environmental audit committee
October 13, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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We joined @rewildingbritain.org.uk on a visit to Sussex to explore how their nature-led solutions are supporting carbon capture, coastal resilience & rural economies👇
October 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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The best way to get people to understand rewilding? Show them it in action 🎬

Last week, members of the Rewilding Britain Influence team took six Environmental Audit Committee members (MPs) and two of their specialist team out in the field to experience rewilding first hand.
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A group of eleven people (the Environmental Audit Committee) standing on a pebbly beach in front of Brighton Pier, smiling at the camera on a cloudy day. Two people hold beach treasures: one holds a white cuttlebone and seaweed, and the other holds a shell above a pebbled beach. A group of people attentively listening to a guide holding a wooden stick, surrounded by lush greenery at the Knepp Castle Estate in Sussex. Tree trunk with visible marks of beaver gnawing, located by a pond. Surrounding foliage is visible in the foreground.
September 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Our new inquiry will examine the @thecccuk.bsky.social's advice on the UK’s next carbon budget.

We’ll be looking its modelling, technology choices and costs, as well as how it’ll engage the public and support behaviour change.

Share your views 👇

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Image of solar panels and wind turbines with a green tint, overlayed with text reading: the seventh carbon budget. Underneath is text 'environmental audit committee' alongside a portcullis
September 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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We asked Emma Pinchbeck, CEO of @thecccuk.bsky.social, for her response to accusations of ‘inaccurate costings’ from then Shadow Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho 👇
September 18, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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We’ve published the Government’s response to our report on the UK and the Antarctic environment.

Find out more: committees.parliament.uk/committee/62...
September 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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How should so-called 'forever chemicals' be regulated?

Yesterday, we considered what affects these chemicals have on the environment and human health, and whether UK regulation goes far enough.

You can watch the session back here: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
Image of food packaging with text reading: Evidence session. Addressing the risks from Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
September 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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The Government has rejected our call for an outright bottom trawling ban despite its pledge.

Read Defra's response to our report on governing the marine environment here: publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...
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The Environmental Audit Committee has published their report: Governing the marine environment. The Committee is calling on the Government to ban damaging activities in offshore protected areas that threaten marine ecosystems.

Read the full report: publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...
September 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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We've launched our Environment in Focus inquiry, asking you for your ideas on what the committee should look in to.

Find out more: committees.parliament.uk/work/9336/th...
Image of a wind turbine in a sheep field with text reading: We want to hear from you about your priorities fro the environment, climate change and nature.
September 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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👋 We welcomed @commonseac.parliament.uk
to Cambridge yesterday alongside experts from finance, aviation, policy & the built environment to support MPs in shaping bold, green policy.

🔗: cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/cisl-we...

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September 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Our session questioning @NationalHways on environmental sustainability has started.

Watch live here: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
commonseac.parliament.uk Environmental Audit Committee @commonseac.parliament.uk · Sep 2
Tomorrow at 2.30pm we're exploring environmental impacts of major road developments, including pollution from run-off and whether schemes such as biodiversity net gain are fit for purpose.

Read more: committees.parliament.uk/event/25038/...
Environmental Audit Committee, Evidence Session, National Highways and environmental sustainability. Photo shows a motorway winding it's way through the countryside.
September 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Tomorrow at 2.30pm we're exploring environmental impacts of major road developments, including pollution from run-off and whether schemes such as biodiversity net gain are fit for purpose.

Read more: committees.parliament.uk/event/25038/...
Environmental Audit Committee, Evidence Session, National Highways and environmental sustainability. Photo shows a motorway winding it's way through the countryside.
September 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Our session questioning @marycreagh.bsky.social , Minister for Nature at Defra and Matthew Pennycook, Minister for Housing and Planning at MHCLG has just started.

Watch live here: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
commonseac.parliament.uk Environmental Audit Committee @commonseac.parliament.uk · Jul 18
Can Government build 1.5 million new homes without undermining environmental targets?

On Monday at 4.30pm we're questioning @marycreagh.bsky.social, Minister for Nature at Defra and Matthew Pennycook, Minister for Housing and Planning at MHCLG👇

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Environmental Audit Committee, We're questioning Mary Creagh, Minister for Nature at DEFRA and Matthew Pennycook, Minister for Housing and Planning at MHCLG, Watch on Parliament Live. Photo next to text shows photos of Mary Creagh MP and Matthew Pennycook MP with a background of a House of Commons committee room.
July 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Can Government build 1.5 million new homes without undermining environmental targets?

On Monday at 4.30pm we're questioning @marycreagh.bsky.social, Minister for Nature at Defra and Matthew Pennycook, Minister for Housing and Planning at MHCLG👇

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Environmental Audit Committee, We're questioning Mary Creagh, Minister for Nature at DEFRA and Matthew Pennycook, Minister for Housing and Planning at MHCLG, Watch on Parliament Live. Photo next to text shows photos of Mary Creagh MP and Matthew Pennycook MP with a background of a House of Commons committee room.
July 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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“Things are moving on so fast that we've got to keep up with the rest of the world.”

Chris Skidmore joins ‪@tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social‬ on Committee Corridor to discuss if the Government's clean power by 2030 ambition is achievable?

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July 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Our session questioning @mikekanemp.bsky.social, Minister for Aviation at @transportgovuk.bsky.social on airport expansion and climate nature targets has started.

Watch live here: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
commonseac.parliament.uk Environmental Audit Committee @commonseac.parliament.uk · Jul 15
Tomorrow at 9.15am we're questioning @mikekanemp.bsky.social , Minister for Aviation, Maritime and Security at @transportgovuk.bsky.social on the economic and environmental impacts of airport expansion plans.👇

Find out more: committees.parliament.uk/event/24820/...
Evidence Session, Airport expansion and climate and nature targets, Environmental Audit Committee. Photo shows the inside of an airport with a departures sign and an aeroplane flying past the window.
July 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Clean power by 2030.

@tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social asks how the UK Government is getting on with reaching that target in the next episode of Committee Corridor. Episode 7 out on Thursday 17 July.

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July 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Tomorrow at 9.15am we're questioning @mikekanemp.bsky.social , Minister for Aviation, Maritime and Security at @transportgovuk.bsky.social on the economic and environmental impacts of airport expansion plans.👇

Find out more: committees.parliament.uk/event/24820/...
Evidence Session, Airport expansion and climate and nature targets, Environmental Audit Committee. Photo shows the inside of an airport with a departures sign and an aeroplane flying past the window.
July 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Yesterday we questioned Emma Hardy MP, Minister for Water and Flooding at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on whether the Government will implement Sustainable Drainage Systems [SuDs] and also schedule three of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010.
July 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Last week, Fiona Thomas from @mcsuk.bsky.social, IDC Chair Sarah Champion MP, and EAC member ‪@pippaheylings.bsky.social‬ joined @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social‬ to explore how the UK can help protect our oceans 🌊

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commonseac.parliament.uk Environmental Audit Committee @commonseac.parliament.uk · Jul 4
Our Committee member @pippaheylings.bsky.social joined our Chair @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social on the Committee Corridor podcast to discuss the evidence and outcomes of the Committee's recent report on Governing the Marine Environment.

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commonseac.parliament.uk Environmental Audit Committee @commonseac.parliament.uk · Jul 3
Is the UK doing enough to protect the oceans?

Fiona Thomas from ‪@mcsuk.bsky.social‬ joins ‪@tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social‬ on Committee Corridor to discuss the High Seas Treaty & how the UK can maintain momentum after the UN Ocean Conference.

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July 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Our Committee member @pippaheylings.bsky.social joined our Chair @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social on the Committee Corridor podcast to discuss the evidence and outcomes of the Committee's recent report on Governing the Marine Environment.

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commonseac.parliament.uk Environmental Audit Committee @commonseac.parliament.uk · Jul 3
Is the UK doing enough to protect the oceans?

Fiona Thomas from ‪@mcsuk.bsky.social‬ joins ‪@tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social‬ on Committee Corridor to discuss the High Seas Treaty & how the UK can maintain momentum after the UN Ocean Conference.

Listen where you get your podcasts
July 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM