Environmental Indicator Framework Details Updated - Air and International Impact

The Environmental Indicator Framework (EIF) consists of 66 indicators that help show how the environment is changing over time. It supports the statutory cycle of monitoring, planning and reporting on progress in improving the environment as established by the Environment Act (2021), as well as the assessment of policies and other interventions, including how we are delivering on international and domestic commitments.

Details can be found here:

Details relating to Air and International Trade have recently been changed and FPC Members may find these of particular interest when assessing sustainability with their supply chains.

The Environmental Indicator Framework has an important role in our longer-term understanding of the effectiveness of policies and interventions. The indicators are a systematic means of monitoring environmental change, recognising that complex natural and social systems will respond to change over a range of timescales.

The Environmental Indicator Framework:

• enables clear communication of important environmental trends in England
• provides a set of indicators which relate to all aspects of the environment and all goals within the Environmental Improvement Plan
• communicates data which give a high-level picture of the environment and how it is changing – more extensive data and indicators may be available from other sources
• is used for assessing changes in the natural environment, for example against the goals of the Environmental Improvement Plan, or in applying a natural capital approach