Environment

It is clear we will need Green MPs in parliament after the next general election making the case for climate action and protecting communities.

The ‘Second National Infrastructure Assessment’ was released today (18 October) by the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC).

Nature 2030 last week (23 August) announced the shortlist for its inaugural Political Purpose Awards – with Caroline Lucas MP and Baroness Jenny Jones amongst the nominees.

Green peer Natalie Bennett raises the alarm on the government’s slow progress on regulating harmful chemicals post-Brexit.

“It’s up to us all to stop this madness”. Elly Foster, member of the Ceredigion Green Party, takes a look at the plans for disposing of the UK’s nuclear waste.

Anne Gayfer on the policy on land ownership passed at Spring Conference.

The Green Party has reiterated its call for water companies to be brought into public ownership after Water UK apologised for a series of sewage discharges.

Nick Bowett on the Better Business Act and setting companies up so that they operate in a more ethical manner by default.

Nick Bowett discusses the importance of urban trees and the considerations councils should take before turning to felling.

Green peer Natalie Bennett told the House of Lords that she was in ‘Green Heaven’ as peers debated housing insulation, green spaces and more. She discusses her thoughts at hearing what ‘t...

The Green Party will be debating HS2 at Spring Conference this weekend. Green Peer Jenny Jones explains the reasons to stop HS2 and reallocate all public funds to a zero-carbon transport ...

Greens for HS2 will be debating HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail at Spring Conference this weekend. Pete Johnson of Lambeth Green Party and Greens for HS2 explains the motion to back buil...

Chris Nash shows that every Green vote gives nature a louder voice and increases the likelihood that we will all enjoy a greener, healthier future.

To what extent do sex and gender affect our relationship with the environment? Kallista Jayasuriya looks at the gender binary, intersectionality and our attitudes towards nature.

“If a council’s constitution can reference human rights, why shouldn’t it reference the rights of nature too?”, Green Councillor Stuart Jeffery submitted a motion to Maidstone Borough Cou...

Dmytro Averin, Freek van der Vet, Iryna Nikolaieva, and Nickolai Denisov discuss ecocide in Ukraine and the environment as a ‘silent casualty of war’.

The approval of plans for a new coal mine in Whitehaven, Cumbria proves that this Conservative Government ‘is the pits’ when it comes to tackling the climate crisis.   

Jonathan Elmer, Green Party Natural World spokesperson, discusses how the release of game birds could be spreading avian flu and increasing the chances of a mutation harmful to humans. ...

Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay has called on the government to introduce a Rights of Nature Act as scientists, government officials and activists gather for today's UN COP15 biodiver...

Steve Hynd, Green Councillor and Policy Manager at City to Sea, discusses Defra’s continued inaction on banning single-use plastics, despite being the only country in Europe without legis...