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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
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UK Plan for Shipments of Waste
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Code of Practice on Noise from Ice-Cream Van Chimes Etc. 1982
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Code of Practice on Noise from Audible Intruder Alarms 1982
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Code of Practice on Noise from Model Aircraft 1982
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Review of National Resource Strategies and Research
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Technical Paper: the metric for the biodiversity offsetting pilot in England