The students also learnt how the Broads Authority is facing climate change through reducing its carbon footprint whilst encouraging visitors to do the same It was over 20 years ago ... in 1989, that the Broads Authority was set up, following the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988, which gave the Broads status equivalent to a national park France and Germany joined Norfolk schoolchildren on an international field trip hosted by the Broads Authority to learn how the Broads are being managed for future generations