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 Q to HMG on AMOC collapse
The Minister and their civil servants clearly hadn’t read the new research papers as they replied that “They do not represent a significant update to the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)” Continue reading “My Q to HMG on AMOC collapse”
My Topical Oral Question on Incineration
Yesterday I asked HMG whether they plan to implement the Climate Change Committee’s recommendation to pause permission for new incineration plants to allow for a review of the treatment of residual waste following their deeply irresponsible decision to allow the Portland incinerator to go ahead Continue reading “My Topical Oral Question on Incineration”
Electric Vehicle Strategy
The fact is that electric vehicles will not help with climate change emissions unless all those charging points are run from renewable energy. Electric vehicles will not completely cut roadside pollution. They will not, for example, cut the particulates coming off tyres and brakes, which is quite a big factor in air pollution. Electric vehicles will not stop congestion or cut the number of people killed or injured on our roads—the statistics are horrifying at the moment. There are also environmental trade-offs. Building any car takes raw materials, sometimes toxic materials, and adds to the planetary burden that we humans create. Continue reading “Electric Vehicle Strategy”
Environment and Climate Change Committee Report: An Extraordinary Challenge: Restoring 30 per cent of our Land and Sea by 2030
This report is good and I thank the committee. The Green Party has been saying this sort of thing for 50 years.
National Networks National Policy Statement – a message to Labour
These national policy statements were Labour’s idea – and they are a really good idea. To make them work, we have to make sure that the Treasury listens and that the next Government get the funding to deliver real change. We need to imagine a future that is better than what we have now and spend the money building that future
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Young people face twin existential threats of nukes and climate change
Climate change and nuclear weapons are both man-made threats that put humanity’s very survival at risk. The two threats are also interconnected in ways that mutually exacerbate the risks and impacts to people and the planet, which is why they are also referred to as the ‘twin existential threats’
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Biomass subsidies and Drax
Transitional Biomass Subsidies protest
On 5th March Biofuelwatch and the Stop Burning Trees Coalition held an emergency demo outside the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in response to the Government’s proposal to offer billions more in new ‘transitional’ subsidies for unabated wood biomass burning. This goes back on previously government policy to stop all subsidies for unabated biomass burning in 2027. The only two power stations eligible for these subsidies are Drax (the UK’s biggest carbon emitter) and Lynemouth. These subsidies have no clear end date in sight, so if approved, could lock us into decades more of forest destruction, pollution of communities and carbon emissions. We called on DESNZ to scrap these plans to keep funding tree burning, and invest in genuine renewables and climate action.
Met Office: 2023 Temperatures
My Question to the Government yesterday:
To ask His Majesty’s Government what additional measures they are planning in response to the news that the Met Office believes that 2023 was the second hottest year on record. Continue reading “Met Office: 2023 Temperatures”
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 