The UN climate change summit expected to take place in Glasgow in November 2020 has been postponed to 2021, due to the coronavirus. The 26th conference of parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change had been expected to attract 30,000 delegates and 190 heads of government, co-hosted by the governments of the U.K. and Italy.
CORONAVIRUS ACT 2020 receives Royal Assent 25 March 2020
348 pages of emergency legislation, can be found at www.legislation.gov.uk, giving executive government huge powers to address most aspects of the pandemic, from health controls to financial support, comparable to wartime measures.
ENVIRONMENTAL PRINCIPLES AND GOVERNANCE IN WALES
UK TO WITHDRAW FROM EUROPEAN AVIATION SAFETY AGENCY
ENVIRONMENT BILL
ALOK SHARMA MP, BUSINESS SECRETARY AND PRESIDENT OF COP 26
AGRICULTURE BILL
The re-introduced Agriculture Bill for the 2020 session of Parliament aims to enable the UK, or specifically England, on withdrawal from the Common Agricultural Policy on Brexit, to enact its own system of direct payments, replacing EU subsidies with payments of “public money for public goods”: such as environmental or animal welfare improvements.
FISHERIES BILL
The Fisheries Bill re-introduced to Parliament in 2020 aims to enable the UK to take powers to operate as an independent coastal state after Brexit; to withdraw from the Common Fisheries Policy, and to control access, by licensing external vessels, to UK fisheries within the UK’s 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zone.