Member

Amendment 313 seeks to set up a rail climate resilience and decarbonisation framework. This would ensure that GBR’s environmental duty is measured and reported on, and not left to aspiration. As we have heard, GBR will inherit some 52,000 hectares of land and around 20,000 kilometres of track, stations and embankments across England, Scotland and Wales. As the Government Estate Nature Plan recognises, state-owned land is shifting towards a whole-estate approach, and we welcome that. Connecting isolated habitats into ecosystems is essential to halting species loss and building climate resilience. Annual reporting would improve transparency and encourage practical action, building on the framework that local authority authorities already use for their biodiversity duties.