Managing the environmental impacts
Two major reports were published in Autumn 2006. They were not statements of government policy but they did act as good indicators of the priorities, objectives and methods of the government at the time. There has been no radical change since their publication, despite a change of government. Both reports were commissioned by HM Treasury, not by the departments of state directly responsible either for the environment or for transport. They were:
the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change (October 2006);1
the Eddington Transport Study: transport’s role in sustaining the UK’s productivity and competitiveness (December 2006).2
The reports were closely related. Although Sir Nicholas Stern’s ...
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