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What does the Coalition Government have planned for the environment? What are the challenges ahead? Join us at this UKELA early evening seminar at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London.

What will be the impact of budget cuts and the emphasis upon localism on environmental policy? For environmental practitioners and those interested in what the government is planning on key issues like the low carbon economy, planning and energy, our post election seminar on September 16^th 2010 is not to be missed. Chaired by Nicholas Schoon, editor of the leading environmental journal, ENDS, speakers who will address the key questions for the new government are: Tom Burke; Caroline Lucas MP; Rt Hon Lord Boyd of Duncansby QC

Speakers

· Tom Burke, environmental adviser to Rio Tinto plc and visiting professor at Imperial and University Colleges, London. With experience as special adviser to three secretaries of state Tom has a unique insight to the workings of Parliament and business. Tom is also a patron of UKELA.

· Caroline Lucas MP, the first Green Party MP and leader of the Green Party in England and Wales. After three terms of office as a MEP Caroline can help unravel the relationship between what might be happening in Europe for the environment, and the new government’s plans.

· Lord Colin Boyd QC. Lord Boyd is a former Lord Advocate of Scotland and a Labour member of the House of Lords. He is head of the UK Consenting Group in Dundas & Wilson which handles the consenting process for major infrastructure projects. He has taken a keen interest in planning and environmental issues in the Lords and is an honorary professor of law at Glasgow University.

Chair: Nicholas Schoon was environment correspondent of the Independent newspaper from before joining the Secretariat of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, where he worked as a policy analyst. His most recent post before joining ENDS was as communications director for the Campaign to Protect Rural England, a long-established green NGO. He has had two books published, one on biodiversity (Going, Going, Gone: the Story of Britain's Vanishing Natural History, Bookman, 1998) and one on UK Cities and urban regeneration (The Chosen City, Spon Press, 2001).

Facilities

• Please arrive at the Bouverie Street/Tudor Street entrance.

Organised by

• Alison Boyd, tel: 01306 500090. You can also contact by email.

• You can book here

How to get there:

Just off Fleet Street, with plentiful buses or walk from Temple Underground Station.

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