Question follow-through · 38189
Climate Change
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage the use of nature-based solutions to help tackle the effects of climate change.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 13 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 20 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
13 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage the use of nature-based solutions to help tackle the effects of climate change.
17 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Mar 2025
Answer published
When designed well, Nature-based solutions (NbS) can deliver multiple benefits for climate and biodiversity whilst helping communities adapt to climate change risks – for example through natural flood management and urban cooling. NbS, such as restoring p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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