This report is good and I thank the committee. The Green Party has been saying this sort of thing for 50 years.
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
Read on for her latest posts on this topic
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”
The start of a new Parliamentary session
After 13 years of Tory Britain, you can spend three years in prison for erecting a climate crisis banner while sexual predators are quietly fast-tracked for release to help with prison overcrowding.
We all know who is not facing jail time: the water company CEOs who fleeced customers for billions of pounds, filled our rivers with sewage and are now asking for our bills to go up so they can take even more of our money; the Conservative Party members who benefited from the billions handed out via the PPE fast-track scheme and numerous other scams; the Tory donors from the oil and gas industry who have had their payback through tax breaks, new licences and delays in the net-zero policy. Those are climate criminals who are costing us a fortune now and costing future taxpayers billions to clean up the mess and mitigate the damage caused by flooding, wildfires, food shortages and other climate catastrophes. Continue reading “The start of a new Parliamentary session”
My fantasy green world
I initiated a debate to ask HMG how much of the Carbon Capture and Storage Infrastructure Fund they have awarded in contracts to companies involved in the oil and gas industry and if they would promise not to award it to those companies and their Minister said I was living in a ‘fantasy green world’
Aviation
Jenny yesterday introduced Natalie’s aviation amendment to the Levelling Up Bill: the amendment proposed a review to examine the costs and benefits of planned expansion of the UK air transport sector and was based on a report from the New Economics Foundation entitled Losing Altitude: The Economics of Air Transport in Great Britain Continue reading “Aviation”
Just Stop Oil
The Government are so awful on the issue of climate change, on both mitigation and adaptation; they are absolutely incompetent, if the Government do only one thing, they really have to just stop oil Continue reading “Just Stop Oil”
