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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Key contributions to sustainable development:
1. Providing international leadership on climate change underpinned by domestic action - energy efficiency, and climate change review and elimination of fuel poverty.
2. Putting sustainable development into practice through implementation of the Sustainable Food and Farming Strategy, animal health and welfare, development of sustainable fisheries policy.
3. Establishing a new integrated agency and marine agency for sustainable management of natural resources at land and sea.
4. Developing programmes for decoupling environmental degradation from economic growth, including funding of Business and Resource Efficiency and Waste Fund, the waste strategy review; and our work on more sustainable consumption and production.
5. Building bilateral Sustainable Development dialogues with a small number of rapidly developing countries (initially India and China) to build on, and provide a framework for existing country-level activities, as well as identify new areas of collaboration.
6. Increasing focus on improving the local environment by understanding better and tackling environmental inequalities and joint work with the Department of Health.
7. Co-ordination of the development of this strategy including publication of the UK sustainable development indicators.
Defra - Sustainable Development Action Plan
Updated: 22 July 2005