The government is on a trajectory to miss many of its environmental protection goals, according to a National Audit Office (NAO) review. The review, commissioned as part of an inquiry by the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) into the government's actions on key environmental areas, reveals some progress but many failings. The government's most notable failures relate to air pollution, carbon emissions, sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs), peatland, and water quality and availability. Martin Harper, conservation director of the RSPB, told the EAC: "There is a mismatch between ambition and availability of resource, capability and capacity." The NAO assessed the government's performance across ten priority areas.
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