The EU is internationally recognised as a leader in sustainability, having enacted a number of laws and policies aimed at promoting a green transition and sustainable development. The UK has historically been bound by EU environmental law and has largely adopted the same approaches. However, since Brexit, the UK has been free to develop its own environmental policy – something the country has been doing over the past several years.
This change has brought a number of challenges and has been a topic of hot debate among experts. In order to better understand this discourse, I spoke to Professor Robert Lee and Simon Boyle, renowned experts in this field. Lee is a Professor of Law at the University of Birmingham, who has acted as a specialist adviser to various international agencies including the European Parliament, European Commission, UNEP and UNDP. Boyle, Environmental Law Director at consultancy Argyll Environmental, has 25 years’ experience as an environmental lawyer which has included working in local government and for a major manufacturing company.
