The National Audit Office has raised wide-ranging concerns warning that without clear plans and goals, the Government risks failing to achieve its 25 year environmental targets set out in its 25 year plan.

The Natural Capital Committee, the government’s independent advisor on natural capital, is warning that the government’s current environmental policies leave “vast holes in environmental protection” and “a gaping hole in legal enforcement.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Commission have announced the first loan agreement backed by the Natural Capital Financing Facility.

Forest Enterprise England, the land management agency of the Forestry Commission, has published the first organisation-wide Natural Capital Account that begins to quantify the full value of the services provided by the natural assets on its entire 254,000 hectare landholding.

Today’s launch of the first global Natural Capital Protocol provides a timely route map for the water sector to future natural capital regulation, which should help companies scale up their plans, according to Robert Spencer, Director of Sustainability at AECOM.