National priorities for securing carbon dioxide emissions must be secured in the move towards a localist style of planning, the government advisory the body the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP) warns in a new report.
The report, the Commission’s 29th study ‘Demographic change and the environment’explores the environmental challenges faced by the UK as a result of demographic change (changes in the numbers and distribution of people) in the UK in the years up to 2050.
It concludes that, ‘the differential pressures in different parts of the UK, down to a very local level, are more significant than the growth of the total population’, and that ‘there is far greater scope to influence consumption patterns and their impact than demographic patterns.’
RCEP Report: LINK
Planning Resource Article: LINK
