Member

On extending this to planning authorities, I am more supportive of subsection (2) of the new clause proposed by Amendment 114, which would help our local authorities get clarity on how they are going to design their local plans. We will come to spatial strategies later, but let us be straightforward about this. Climate change has an impact on biodiversity, of course, but it is not the primary impact. That is why a focus on land and habitat—we will discuss invasions of non-native species later—as well as on overfishing, was a key part of what the IPBES report set out. We, as part of the G7 and other worldwide organisations, have committed to addressing that report in different ways—hence NAP3. For that reason, I would have supported part of Amendment 114 but not all of it.