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Last week Defra unveils its third Sustainable Development Action Plan (SDAP). This sets out what Defra will be doing over the next eighteen months to help all of us, both in the UK and further afield, live and prosper in a healthy environment.

Priorities for this plan include how to sustainably increase global agricultural production, making the Olympics greener and ensuring maximum benefit to society now and in future, and developing Defra’s first Departmental climate change plan to reduce emissions and adapt to climate impacts.

Hilary Benn said:

“The challenges facing the world in the twenty-first century, from reducing pollution to protecting biodiversity to feeding a growing global population, require each and every one of us to act. This plan has ideas that will help meet these challenges.”

Notes to editors

1. This and previous SDAPs can be found at: www.defra.gov.uk/sustainable/defra/action-plan.htm