Our operational activity will play a key role in halting the decline in nature and support recovery and improvement across our activities, estates and supply chain. We will ensure our staff and contractors protect the environment and optimise improvements, and we will measure our contribution.
The way we carry out our work will support nature recovery. We will both protect existing nature as well as take action to enhance it. This ensures we are compliant with our statutory duties to protect nature and undertake mandatory enhancement (for example, biodiversity net gain), including operating a sustainable supply chain. We will also take action to conserve and enhance biodiversity as we undertake our operational role, ensuring we are compliant with the strengthened biodiversity duty on public authorities, as outlined in the Environment Act 2021. In actively supporting nature’s recovery we will play our part in ensuring the environment can thrive whilst supporting and enabling growth.
Through our learning pathways, the Environment Agency aims to support our staff, partners and suppliers to:
- understand impacts on nature from land/water use change, natural resource consumption, climate change, pollution and invasive non-native species. These impacts can be direct (e.g. on site) and indirect (e.g. embodied within supply chains).
- understand the actions we can take to reduce direct and indirect impacts on nature and manage nature-related risks.
- restore nature so that natural processes will continue to provide the clean air, land and water that people depend on.
Further Learning Resources
How to join – Instructions For Environment Agency staff:
To enrol in a pathway:
- Create an SCSS personal account
- Click on your personal profile. Under the heading ‘My Learning Pathways’, click ‘View available pathways’
- Use the search function to locate the relevant pathway, and click ‘Enrol’
- Begin your learning through clicking on ‘Enrolled pathways’ under your personal profile
For any questions on accessing the SCSS Learning Pathways, please contact Rosie Watts: [email protected]