Findings from the report show that carbon emissions in sectors such as agriculture, power, and waste are set to improve by less than 15 per cent by 2032, with Green Alliance stating that ...
A recent National Audit Office report has revealed the Government’s mismanagement of its Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme, with the scheme being implemented on an ‘overly ambitious’ timel...
“Although it is fearfully short on detail, the 25 Year Environment Plan says that England’s soils must be sustainably managed by 2030.” Green peer Natalie Bennett analyses the Government’...
The government recently published its Transport Decarbonisation Plan, which outlines a new strategy aimed at making transport greener. Although the policy may bring benefits for the UK, h...
The Green Party have responded to the Government’s ‘Freedom Day’ plans, urging the Prime Minister to reconsider the scrapping of mandatory face masks on 19 July.
“From the impacts of austerity that we see in potholed roads, closed libraries, inadequate social care provision, it is clear that tax is politics today.” Green Peer Natalie Bennett updat...
“The legacy of slavery, of discrimination and dispossession, damage inflicted by mining and fossil fuel firms, exploitative manufacturers and the fast-changing climate are impacts that ou...
“The message is such that people are allowed to discriminate against Gypsies, Roma and Travellers because there is nobody to stand by us and there is no government or institution to repre...
“Quakers are not big on theology but do offer a few pithy bits of advice. One of my favourites is ‘Think it possible that you may be mistaken’.” MEP Molly Scott Cato considers the Green P...
“Europe is not just a threat but also an opportunity.” Ahead of the Spring Conference, former MEP Catherine Rowett considers the aspects of the Green Party’s approach to the EU that need ...
As the UK leaves the EU without new laws recognising animal sentience, James West, Senior Policy Manager of Compassion in World Farming, emphasises the importance of the UK enshrining thi...
“The UK’s seabird populations have undergone decades of decline linked to climate change and pressure from human activities.” Helen Quayle, Offshore Wind Policy Officer at the Royal Socie...
“This legislation will ensure that the future is littered with numerous examples of abuse, corruption and official cover ups.” Green Peer Jenny Jones outlines her views on the Covert Huma...
“The Domestic Abuse Bill 2020 is an important step forward; implementing the Convention on Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women would be too.” Caitlin Collins, Dawn Fu...
“The benefits of the Heathrow expansion would be felt by the privileged few who fly, yet the price paid by people across the world.” Anna Hughes, Director of Flight Free UK, considers the...
“As with all diseases, as Covid-19 has illustrated so clearly, no one is safe from an infectious disease until everyone in the world is safe.” On World AIDS Day, Green Peer Natalie Bennet...
“The Green strategy for northern renewal must authentically empower the people of the north to drive policy and strategies for themselves. This is not mysticism – it is learning the lesso...
Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) protests the new laws on Permitted Development Rights (PDR) as being detrimental to meeting underlying climate targets and wants the government to...
“Just when we need to be strengthening communities, defending the environment, and planning for our children’s futures; the new planning laws being rushed through by the Government threat...
In the third part of our series on the progress of local authority climate emergency declarations, What has changed?, Green Sheffield city councillor Douglas Johnson looks at how Sheffiel...
