This post is by Philippa Goodwin, senior policy officer at the RSPB
Anyone tuning in to parliamentary debates on the Environment Bill will have heard Environment Minister Rebecca Pow refer to the ‘triple lock’ mechanism, which she says is key to driving short term environmental progress.
She has already used this analogy during the bill’s second reading and twice during the bill’s committee stage on 10 March and 3 November, and we are promised that we will hear a great deal more about it as the bill progresses. So, does it stand up to scrutiny and will it deliver the legal certainty that the minister is clearly hoping for? Here are our responses to the triple lock mechanism.
To see the full article please visit https://greenallianceblog.org.uk/2020/11/26/why-the-environment-bills-so-called-triple-lock-isnt-the-safety-mechanism-the-government-says-it-is/#more-14336
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