“What use is a roadmap if you’re hellbent on driving off a cliff-edge?” Greenpeace on Govt’s 25 year environment plan

The Office for Environmental Protection has issued a damning report on the Government’s progress against its Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP).

In response, Rebecca Newsom, Head of Politics at Greenpeace UK, said:

“What use is a roadmap if you’re hellbent on driving off a cliff-edge? A 25 year environment plan is all well and good on paper, but this Government has been utterly failing to take the essential action to protect nature. With a general election just around the corner, the public wants urgent steps to stop sewage pumping into rivers, tackle the scourge of plastic pollution, curb the destructive fishing emptying our seas and clean up the air we breathe.

“Back in 2019 when this Government was elected, it promised “the most ambitious environmental programme of any country on earth.” If that were true, the earth would be in even more trouble. With a new generation of voters saying climate and the environment is of critical importance to them, time’s running out for Sunak’s Government to have anything other than hollow promises to show for its time in office come the election.”