English regions and devolved countries
In the past 10 years, the UK government has devolved increasing power to the English regions, together with Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. As a result, the regions have more responsibility for delivering the growing sustainability agenda. However, this is difficult without a region-specific, standardised measure of both local and global environmental impacts and limits.
We believe the Eco-Budget UK will help. It provides the most comprehensive understanding yet of the UK’s physical production and consumption, and of the resource flows between regions, devolved administrations, and the rest of the world. This then provides the vital evidence to feed back into future economic and spatial strategies.
THE UK REGIONS
The UK contains a total of 9 English regions and 3 ‘devolved administrations’ in a complex arrangement, or ‘variable geometry.’ These are at the upper level of a local government structure that includes counties and local authorities: rural districts, metropolitan boroughs and unitary authorities.
For details on our activities throughout the UK, please click on the relevant region above for more information.
Taking SCP forward
Promoting Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) is now one of five strategic priorities for DEFRA in their 5 year plan and is a major theme in Securing the Future, the UK Government’s strategy for promoting sustainable development published in April 2005. Read more
Linking with regional strategies
Using the REAP tool, Ecological Budget UK will enable regional decision-makers to build scenarios and begin to answer many key questions over the two years of the project and will benefit all UK regions, with the Mass Balance, Material flow and Footprint data being made available free of charge via the web. Read more
Regional pilot projects
Ecological Budget UK provides an ideal opportunity for local authorities, government agencies and strategic partnerships to engage communitities while also contributing to the ‘sum total’ of reduction in global consumption. Read more
Download centre
The download centre offers REAP documentation, Regional Footprint Briefings and other ecological footprint information for those involved policy setting at the regional or local level. Read more