Questions from the Office for Environmental Protection:
Environmental outcomes and system change
ARI 19 Interactions between the land-use and marine planning systems and achievement of environmental targets and commitments (including: legislation, policy and guidance, delivery and funding mechanisms, and monitoring).
Office for Environmental Protection, 2026
Environmental outcomes and system change
ARI 15 Interactions of climate change, including policies, mitigation and adaptation, with other factors and drivers, such as: material flows; pollution; nutrient management; biodiversity; the creation and restoration of habitats and soils; achievement of terrestrial, freshwater and marine environmental targets; and land-use management and planning policy.
Office for Environmental Protection, 2026
Nature and ecological resilience
ARI 11 Maximising progress towards environmental and climate change targets, by assessing the efficacy of actions such as public and private funding, nature restoration, the land-use planning system, public engagement programmes, and biosecurity actions.
Office for Environmental Protection, 2026
Nature and ecological resilience
ARI 10 Effectiveness, for the achievement of marine targets and objectives, of implementation and enforcement of policies and measures such as fisheries management plans, bycatch measures, protected areas, marine spatial planning, whole-site or ecosystem approaches, offshore development regulations, and strategic and financial compensation.
Office for Environmental Protection, 2026
Environmental quality and pressures
ARI 07 Assessing the contributions made towards improving the quality and quantity of water by legislation, policies, and measures (e.g. management plans, wastewater treatment regulations, allowable pollutant thresholds, physical modification of waterbodies, and abstraction policies).
Office for Environmental Protection, 2026
Environmental quality and pressures
ARI 03 Characterising material flows, including resource sources and extraction, emissions, consumption patterns, waste generation, disposal, reuse and recycling, in general and in different sectors, e.g. agri-food and construction.
Office for Environmental Protection, 2026