24/04/2025 07:58
The Guardian
Exclusive: plan to let firms sidestep environmental laws by paying into nature levy would add cost and delay, says letter to MPsLeading economists, former government advisers and ecologists are calling for a key section of the government’s planning bill to be changed because it creates a “licence to kill nature”.Sir Partha Dasgupta, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Cambridge, ecology professor Sir John Lawton and Dr Tom Tew, a former chief scientist of Natural England, are among the signatories to a letter to MPs that warns them to ignore government slogans and false rhetoric about nature and wildlife being a block to growth. Continue reading...
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