Does the Minister agree that spending more money on home insulation would be a more permanent solution to the energy problems that low-income families face? Continue reading “Social Energy Tariff”
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 amendment on Day 6 of Renters’ Rights Bill Committee Stage
In Kirklees, a Green councillor, Andrew Cooper, was one of the driving forces behind a street-by-street insulation programme. Reports on how that worked out afterwards highlighted how much people are concerned about cowboy builders but that they trust their local authorities. That street-by-street process works well, but to make that happen you need the data. That is what this amendment is designed to achieve. Continue reading “My amendment on Day 6 of Renters’ Rights Bill Committee Stage”
Climate Change: Wildfire Strategy and Action Plan
Parliament recalled for steel industry bill
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”
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”
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 