May survives confidence vote: Where now for the environment?
On 12 December, Prime Minister Theresa May won a no-confidence vote in the Conservative Party by 200 votes to 117 ...
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Does the Withdrawal Agreement pass the green Brexit test?
This blog post was originally published by UK in a Changing Europe. The draft Withdrawal Agreement aims to establish the ...
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Environmental commitments in the Withdrawal Agreement
Trying to make sense of the Withdrawal Agreement agreed by the Cabinet on 14 November is not straightforward (and political ...
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The Fisheries Bill: What does it tell us about post-Brexit fisheries policy?
On Thursday 25 October, the government presented its much-anticipated Fisheries Bill to Parliament. While there was a perception that the ...
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The limits of entrenchment: Parliamentary sovereignty and post-Brexit environmental policy
Creating UK environmental policy that is both effective and resilient is much in the news, especially in the context of ...
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Environment under threat without greater cooperation between devolved nations and UK government
The Brexit and Environment network has spent the last year researching the implications of Brexit for environmental policy, with a ...
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Blueprint for a new Environment Act: Comments welcome by 31 October
Brexit & Environment's researchers have recently been involved with a project led by the Broadway Initiative 'to generate ideas and proposals ...
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Luxembourg, here we come! A comment on the Wightman decision
The legal aspects of the Brexit process have just become more complicated with the decision of the Scottish courts to ...
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Brexit and water law: Implications for the UK and Scotland
The recent heatwaves, and accompanying drought, have flagged up the importance of water policy – and water law – as ...
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Delivering a ‘Green Brexit’: A summary of academic evidence to Defra’s environmental governance consultation
From 10 May to 2 August 2018, the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) ran a public ...
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Can Brexit bring a better way to protect the environment?
By Professor Richard Cowell, Cardiff University. This blog post was originally published on the Royal Town Planning Institute Blog. Faced ...
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Environmental principles and governance: Brexit and Environment’s key messages
From 10 May to 2 August 2018, the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) ran a public ...
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