Annual Report Card

‘a cause for hope but not celebration’

“A cause for hope, but not a cause for celebration” - independent experts give Government a C+ for delivery of their climate and environmental commitments

Slight improvement from last year’s C grade, with significant progress made on Energy commitments, but overall performance on environmental issues is still a long way off where it needs to be.

For the first time, the experts identify key commitments in the “Climate”, “Nature & Biodiversity” and “Drinking & Waste Water” categories that are now in danger of not being achieved during the Government’s term.

The overall assessment marked the Government out of 10 in nine subject areas. The Government’s highest scores came in the categories of  “Waste and Circular Economy” (7.5 - down from 8.5 last year), “Energy” (7 - a significant improvement from 4 last year) “Buildings” (7 - up from 6 last year) and “Air Quality” (7 - same as last year). The lowest scoring categories were “Agriculture and Forestry (4 - same as last year) where the Government is now “flirting with failure” and “Water and Marine (5 - marginally up from 4.5 last year).