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Environment Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Krebs (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Monday, 6 September 2021. It occurred during Debate on bills on Environment Bill.

I thank the Minister very much for allowing me to intervene briefly. I want to wind back a few moments in his response to this debate, in which he said, as I heard it, that we will not be able to achieve the biodiversity target without improving soil health. I want to clarify what was meant by that. Does it mean that, in the indicator species that will be part of the biodiversity target and halting species decline—the billion bacteria to which my noble friend Lord Cameron of Dillington referred, as well as the tens of thousands of protozoa and fungi in a single teaspoon of soil—they will be part of the species abundance target and therefore soil health will be folded into that objective?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
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Session
2021-22
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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