The Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee has been set up by the Senedd to look at policy and legislation, and to hold the Welsh Government to account in specific areas. These areas include climate change policy, the environment, energy, planning, transport, and connectivity.
The Committee is launching an ARI to support its work on the forthcoming Environmental Governance, Principles and Biodiversity Targets Bill. It is seeking expertise and research on all aspects of the Bill. The Bill is preceded by a Welsh Government White Paper which outlines the areas the Bill is likely to cover.
The Bill is expected to:
- establish a permanent environmental governance body to ensure public authorities uphold environmental law;
- introduce overarching environmental principles to underpin all future policy decision-making; and
- introduce a framework to protect and restore nature, including biodiversity targets.
The Committee is particularly interested in:
- The process of establishing and remit of other UK environmental governance bodies, and lessons learned;
- Building on its existing knowledge and work on biodiversity targets; and
- Developing an evidence base to inform its assessment of the environmental principles included in the Bill.
Academics at all career stages, research institutions, and experts are encouraged to register their interest in this ARI, add their existing research and any planned research in this topic area to the ARI repository, and suggest questions that the Committee could be asking the Welsh Government in the short, medium, and long-term.
The Committee may use the information you provide to inform its approach to scrutiny of the Bill and its questioning of the Welsh Government and other witnesses. Senedd Research may also use the information to inform research support to the committee.
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