Search results for 'Environmental sustainability'
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Departmental Sustainability Overview: Business, Innovation and Skills
Published on:This briefing responds to a request from the Environmental Audit Committee to review sustainability within the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).
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Fact Sheet: Sustainability reporting
Published on:This fact sheet highlights the findings from NAO work on good practice in sustainability reporting.
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Condition of school buildings and DfE sustainability overview
Published on:Two National Audit Office (NAO) reports assessing the condition of school buildings in England and DfE sustainability ambitions.
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Memorandum for Environmental Audit Committee: Waste and Recycling review
Published on:This memorandum has been prepared to support the Environmental Audit Committee to consider the decision taken by Defra in 2010, to withdraw the provisional allocation of PFI credits from seven (out of 18) PFI projects.
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Planting Trees in England
Published on:This report evaluates whether Defra’s management of new tree-planting schemes is likely to achieve value for money.
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NAO Briefing: Environmental protection
Published on:The National Audit Office has prepared this briefing on environmental protection for the Environmental Audit Committee. It is a follow up to the environmental protection briefing which the NAO prepared for the Committee in August 2010, and focusses on the progress made by the government in this area since 2010.
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Environmental Sustainability Overview
Published on:This report examines how far the Ministry of Defence has embedded environmental sustainability in estate management, procurement, governance and policy-making.
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Environmental tax measures
Published on:This report examines how HM Treasury and HMRC manage tax measures that have an impact on the environment.
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The Environmental Land Management scheme
Published on:This report examines the strategic management of the Environmental Land Management scheme.
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Briefing for the Environmental Audit Committee – Carbon Budget Management
Published on:The UK is committed, under the Climate Change Act 2008, to cutting carbon
emissions by at least 34 per cent by 2020 and by at least 80 per cent by 2050
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Managing flood risk
Published on:This report evaluates whether government’s approach to managing the risks of flooding and coastal erosion is achieving value for money.
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Achieving government’s long-term environmental goals
Published on:This report examines how government has set itself up to deliver its long-term environmental goals.
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Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme
Published on:This report examines the performance, implementation, procurement and management of the Green Homes Grant scheme.
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Achieving net zero
Published on:This report applies experience from auditing cross-government challenges to highlight the risks government needs to manage to achieve net zero.
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Early review of the new farming programme
Published on:This report examines Defra’s approach to developing the Future Farming and Countryside Programme.
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Water supply and demand management
Published on:This report sets out the challenges facing the water industry in England and assesses how Defra is tackling them.
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Electricity networks
Published on:This report examines how effectively Ofgem has used electricity network price controls to protect consumers and achieve government’s environmental goals.
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Fracking for shale gas in England
Published on:This report sets out the facts about the government’s support of shale gas development in England.
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The packaging recycling obligations
Published on:This report identifies lessons from the management and performance of the packaging recycling obligation system.