A blueprint for nature loss reversal or a roadmap to a cliff edge? The green economy reacts to the Environmental Improvement Plan

The government has today published its long-awaited Environmental Improvement Plan, setting out its five-year strategy for delivering on the UK's hugely ambitious promise, made alongside other governments at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit last year, to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030. As the Prime Minister stresses in his foreword to the report, delivering on this target requires the reversal of a centuries-old trend of nature destruction. But if it can be achieved it promises to deliver multiple environmental and economic benefits. As such, today's plan includes a raft of new tar...