A government report set out the national infrastructure plan, setting out priorities in areas such as roads, railways, energy, telecommunications and flood defences.
Source: National Infrastructure Plan 2013, HM Treasury
Links: Report | Speech | CBI press release | NAPF press release | RTPI press release | BBC report
Date: 2013-Dec
A report by a committee of MPs said that the government should use the forthcoming Autumn Statement to clarify its position on energy subsidies and to make better provision for renewable energy.
Source: Energy Subsidies, Ninth Report (Session 201314), HC 61, House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Select Committee, TSO
Links: Report | BBC report | Guardian report
Date: 2013-Dec
A government report responded to the CCS Cost Reduction Task Force final report and provided updates on some key policy developments since the publication of the United Kingdom's Carbon Capture and Storage Roadmap in 2012.
Source: CCS in the UK: Government response to the CCS Cost Reduction Task Force, Department for Energy and Climate Change
Links: Report
Date: 2013-Oct
The government responded to the independent Committee on Climate Change's (CCC) fifth annual progress report.
Source: Government Response to the Fifth Annual Progress Report of the Committee on Climate Change: Meeting the Carbon Budgets – 2013 progress report to parliament, Department for Energy and Climate Change, TSO
Links: Response | DECC press release
Date: 2013-Oct
A report (by a cross-country ministerial group) examined the case for revising low carbon policy across the European Union and made recommendations.
Source: Going for Green Growth: The case for ambitious and immediate EU low carbon action, Green Growth Group
Links: Report | DECC press release
Date: 2013-Oct
A report assessed the progress of the European Union and European countries towards achieving their climate mitigation and energy policy objectives.
Source: Trends and Projections in Europe 2013: Tracking progress towards Europe's climate and energy targets until 2020, European Environment Agency
Date: 2013-Oct
A report summarized scientific evidence on climate change globally and in the United Kingdom, and considered the policy implications.
Source: Bob Ward and Naomi Hicks, Recent and Future Changes in the Global and UK Climate, ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy/Grantham Research Institute (London School of Economics)
Links: Report | Grantham Institute press release | CCCEP press release | Telegraph report
Date: 2013-Oct
The Welsh Government began consultation on proposals to provide a modern statutory framework for the sustainable management of natural resources. The consultation would close on 15 January 2014.
Source: Towards the Sustainable Management of Wales Natural Resources: Consultation on proposals for an Environment Bill, WG19631, Welsh Government
Links: Consultation document
Date: 2013-Oct
A think-tank report called for a distinctively 'green' approach to public services. Public services could not be reduced to commodities, and the introduction of the market and privatization were usually wrong. It called for smaller, better public services, with greater local democratic control and a place for voluntary organizations with genuine independence.
Source: Andrew Pearmain and Brian Heatley, Smaller But Better? Post-growth public services, Green House
Links: Report
Date: 2013-Sep
A report set out a plan to 'detoxify' the economy and invest £50 billion in green alternatives. The plan would include ending zero-hours contracts, removing hidden bank subsidies, cancelling the Private Finance Initiative, ending tax avoidance and evasion, and stopping the high-speed rail link.
Source: A National Plan for the UK: From Austerity to the Age of the Green New Deal, Green New Deal Group
Links: Report | GND press release | Guardian report
Date: 2013-Sep
A report examined the role of the European Union in influencing the environment, particularly in the United Kingdom. As part of this it looked at the alternatives if the UK were to withdraw from active involvement in EU environmental policy or to withdraw from the EU altogether.
Source: David Baldock, Andrew Farmer, Kristof Geeraerts, Stephanie Newman, Raphael Sauter, Emma Watkins, and Sirini Withana, Report on the Influence of EU Policies on the Environment, Institute for European Environmental Policy
Links: Report
Date: 2013-Aug
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs published its annual report for 2012-13.
Source: Annual Report and Accounts 2012-13, HC 40, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, TSO
Links: Report
Date: 2013-Jul