The decision emerged following a parliamentary question by Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, who asked when the panel would next meet and what progress had been made on implementing recommendations from the panel’s first report.
The panel's report, published in December, called for young people to be involved in environmental policy decision-making and argued that continued engagement was necessary to make sure that the youth perspective on the environment was heard, and responded to, by government.
Conservative energy minister Charles Hendry said the Department of Energy and Climate Change's approach to youth engagement has been “reviewed” since the panel last met in December. To this end, the panel is to be replaced by a system that uses social media to engage young people.
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