I am worried that this is the same old story of taxpayer money paying for private profits and private sector failure Continue reading “Parliament recalled for steel industry bill”
Category: Climate change
We need a new era of fossil free politics. Our pension funds should divest from fossil fuels, our ministers should reject the advances of fossil fuel lobbyists, and our councils and mayors should be supported to transition to a zero carbon economy.
Jenny works with campaigners and industry to promote a more radical policy agenda on climate change.
My debate on Licensed Oil and Gas Fields Emissions
Football Governance Bill Report Stage
I put an amendment to the vote in the Lords on the Football Governance Bill on the first day of Report Stage. It would have ensured that the incoming independent football regulator’s remit included considerations for environmental sustainability. This coincided with a vote on the launch of Green Football’s Great Save, the third annual Green Football campaign. Continue reading “Football Governance Bill Report Stage”
Climate Change
Yesterday I intervened in a debate on climate change to ask HMG about taxation on kerosene jet fuel Continue reading “Climate Change”
Airport Expansion
By 2040 aviation will be responsible for 27% of the UK’s carbon emissions
Heathrow “is an economic parasite”
Given a choice between nature and growth, Labour seems far too willing to burn and destroy whatever is necessary and that includes our climate. Continue reading “Heathrow “is an economic parasite””
Immigration: Human Rights
Do this Government see that, as a massive consumer still driving climate change, we have a duty to people who are fleeing drought and floods, as well as to refugees from war zones? Continue reading “Immigration: Human Rights”
Football Governance Bill Committee Stage
We know the climate is changing; we know that the weather is changing; we know there are more floods and more droughts; so it is very short-sighted not to include environmental sustainability when you are worried about the future of clubs and their financial sustainability Continue reading “Football Governance Bill Committee Stage”
Real solutions for a climate-resilient future
The floods in Valencia are the latest awful reminder that a shifting climate is our new reality. We are in the early stages of a changing world, and it all gets progressively worse from here. Any belief that we can fix it by merely adopting a new set of technologies is a complete fallacy.
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Football Governance Bill
I do not like net zero. We are way past the time for net zero; we have to think about real zero. I know that this Labour Government have a real problem with understanding climate change. I am very happy to help them out at any time, with tutorials from scientists or meteorologists. In the meantime, this Bill fails to prepare football for one of the biggest challenges that it will face in the future. Giving the new regulator of the professional game a specific remit to consider climate change is a reasonable thing to do. It would send a signal to the Football Association that grass-roots football is also going to need resources to adapt to what is now happening to our climate Continue reading “Football Governance Bill”
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 