2 Nature Check: Executive summary
Executive summary Well designed policy
13
14 16 Delayed
4
2 On track
12 1
15
5
9 3
7 6
11 1 8
10 Poorly designed policy
The Coalition Government have set out a clear and ambitious agenda for the natural environment. Headline commitments were established in the Coalition agreement, with more detail laid out in the Structural Reform Plans. David Cameron promised that these plans would establish “Specific deadlines for specific action. Not what we hope to achieve – but the actions we will take. They will show how each department plans to bring democratic accountability.”1
Nature Check assesses Government progress on its natural environment commitments and is our contribution to this process of democratic accountability. It follows Climate Check, published by a Green Alliance-led coalition of NGOs in September 2011.2