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In Spring 2023, we launched a new report ‘Pathways to 2030: 10 Key Areas for investment in nature’s recovery across Wales’. You can read it here, with both full and easy-read versions available.
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Wales Environment Link (WEL) is a network of environmental, countryside and heritage non-governmental organisations working across Wales since 1990. WEL supports its members in engaging with the Welsh Government and Parliament, and helps them to work together to develop effective environmental policy and practice.
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Five Priorities for the next First Minister to create a Greener Wales by 2030
“We stand at a fork in the road as a species” Al Gore, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 2007 The climate and nature emergency – a two-sided coin of eco-anxiety – is one that people talk and worry...
Access to justice and environmental law in Wales, post-Brexit
© Photo: Rory Francis Guest Blog: Llinos Price from CPRW At the end of January, we’re expecting the Welsh Government to publish a White Paper setting out its proposals for a bill to address...
Banning plastic wet wipes – problem solved, right?
Guest Blog: Sky Roberts from Keep Wales Tidy A solo wet wipe on a pavement. © Keep Wales Tidy The UK Government recently undertook a consultation to gather views on a potential ban of wet wipes...
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