Our departmental priorities laid down in Defra’s Structural Business Plan include:

• helping to enhance the environment and biodiversity to improve quality of life
• enhancing and protecting the natural environment – including biodiversity and the marine environment – by reducing pollution and preventing habitat loss and degradation
• supporting a strong and sustainable green economy, resilient to climate change
• encouraging businesses, people and communities to manage and use natural resources in a sustainable manner and to reduce waste
• working to ensure that the UK economy is resilient to climate change

Our priority areas of work include:

• the Natural Environment White Paper
• Water for Life: Water White Paper
• managing flooding
• pursuing the zero waste agenda
• reforming the water industry to enhance competition and improve conservation
• driving sustainable public sector practice across government

Recent publications

• UK Plan for Shipments of Waste

• Code of Practice on Noise from Ice-Cream Van Chimes Etc. 1982

• Code of Practice on Noise from Audible Intruder Alarms 1982

• Code of Practice on Noise from Model Aircraft 1982

• Review of National Resource Strategies and Research

• Technical Paper: the metric for the biodiversity offsetting pilot in England

All environment publications