How will Brexit affect environmental policy?

The session will start at 11am on Wednesday 20 July in Committee Room 2 of the House of Lords.

Giving evidence to the Committee will be:

• Martin Nesbit, Senior Fellow and Head of Environment and Climate Governance Programme, Institute for European Environmental Policy
• Dr Charlotte Burns, Senior Lecturer, University of York
• Professor Andrew Jordan, Professor of Environmental Science, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia

Areas the session will cover include:

• What will be the short and long-term impacts of Brexit on environmental policy, both in the UK and in the EU?
• What role should the UK play in shaping EU environmental measures over the next two years, while it remains a member of the EU?
• What EU environmental laws might the UK continue to be bound by? To what extent should the UK seek to incorporate EU environmental law into British law?
• To what extent will the UK need to align its environmental policy with EU policy in order to maintain access to the single market?
• What progress has the UK made toward meeting EU standards for air, water quality and waste management targets?