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Strategic programmes:
An environment we can be proud of

Live Island Plan Initiatives

  • Offshore Wind
  • Onshore 20MW Renewable Energy by 2026 
  • Territorial Seas
  • Climate Change Action Plan
  • Implement Waste Strategy
  • Energy Strategy
  • Agriculture Strategy
  • Food Security Strategy 
  • UNESCO Biosphere Periodic Review
  • Environment Strategy

Energy Security - (Offshore Wind)

  • Action: Climate Change Act secondary legislation presented to the Council of Ministers
  • Target date: February 2024
  • Action: Climate Change Act secondary legislation debated in Tynwald
  • Target date: March 2024
  • Action: Submission of Marine Infrastructure Management Act (MIMA) secondary legislation presented to the Council of Ministers
  • Target date: June 2024
  • Action: Submission of Marine Infrastructure Management Act (MIMA) secondary legislation debated by Tynwald
  • Target date: July 2024

Energy Security - Onshore 20MW Renewable Energy by 2026

  • Action: Appoint onshore wind manufacturer
  • Target date: June 2024
  • Action: Appoint engineering, procurement, construction contractor for onshore wind.
  • Target date: August 2024
  • Action: Planning application ready to submit. Statutory consultation starts
  • Target date: January 2025
  • Action: Minimum 20MW Renewable Onshore Energy
  • Target date: 2026

Territorial Seas

  • Action: Completion of feasibility assessment of a new interconnector between the Island and another electricity transmission system
  • Target date: March 2024
  • Revised date: March 2025
  • Action: Hydrocarbons licence variation finalised
  • Target date: June 2024

Climate Change Action Plan

  • Action: Climate Change – Annual report to Tynwald (then each July from 2024)
  • Target date: July 2024

  • Action: Draft national strategy on sea defences, flooding and coastal erosion
  • Target date: December 2024

Implement Waste Strategy

  • Action: Report on International Environmental Waste Standards
  • Target date: December 2025
  • Action: Deliver effective and sustainable sewerage treatment infrastructure for Peel operational by December 2024..
  • Target date: December 2025
  • Revised date: December 2026
  • Action: Waste Strategy Implemented
  • Target date: 2025
  • Action: Deliver effective and sustainable sewerage treatment infrastructure for Garff operational by December 2025.
  • Target date: 2026

Energy strategy

  • Action: Develop policies that will enable opportunities to explore the Islands natural energy resources
  • Target date: August 2024
  • Action: Annual Energy Strategy Update
  • Target date: November 2024

Agricultural Strategy

  • Action: Publish a plan for the future of agriculture
  • Target date: March 2024

Food Security

  • Action: Develop and publish a plan for food security
  • Target date: March 2024

UNESCO Biosphere Periodic Review

  • Action: Prepare for UNESCO Biosphere periodic review
  • Target date: 2025
  • Action: Submission for UNESCO Biosphere periodic review
  • Target date: 2026

Environment Strategy

  • Action: Updated environmental policies & legislation drafted for debate
  • Target date: April 2024
  • Action: Undertake and complete a trial for year round air quality monitoring (2 year trial)..
  • Target date: October 2025

Completed actions

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