I’m sorry to see Graham Stuart stand down as a minister, but I’m glad he’ll continue to champion climate action from the backbenches.

🚌 We welcome The Labour Party's commitment to improving bus services with legislation that simplifies franchising and extends its availability✍

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Wonderful to see seals at Horsey Gap, Norfolk.

The centre left New Statesman is now happy to publish articles putting ‘climate and nature emergency’ in heavy scare marks (it saves saying ‘so called’) or viewing environmental policies as just another way in which elites immiserate the masses. greenallianceblog.org.uk/2024/04/09/yes…

Good and important read from Shaun Spiers this. Timely reminder that ignoring or appeasing climate scepticism is a dangerous game for politicians to play.
greenallianceblog.org.uk/2024/04/09/yes…

Climate sceptics can't be appeased, they must be opposed. And populists who attack scientists are playing a dangerous game. My new Green Alliance blog. greenallianceblog.org.uk/2024/04/09/yes…

Recent Carbon Brief analysis has shown that global warming is accelerating “broadly in line” with predictions, so why is political scepticism still on the rise?

Shaun Spiers details the need for strong and unwavering leadership on climate & net zero 👇
greenallianceblog.org.uk/2024/04/09/yes…

'Net zero scepticism (particularly from the party that introduced net zero) is dangerous, but it is not confined to those on the right.'

Shaun Spiers on the widening environmental action gap across UK politics.

greenallianceblog.org.uk/2024/04/09/yes…

Green Alliance is hiring a new Head of Climate Policy as I leave this brilliant role next week.

It's an incredible opportunity, the best role I've ever had the pleasure of doing, so do apply / share with your networks!

green-alliance.org.uk/vacancies/

How Rachel Reeves could invest more in the UK's low investment, low productivity, low growth economy without breaking her fiscal rules - Green Alliance's Steve Coulter in The New Statesman.
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Methane - an ignored opportunity for short term climate wins.

We Green Alliance are quoted in this good article by Leia Paxton via ENDS Report

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We need faster action to reduce carbon emissions from transport.

As a new report from Green Alliance shows, when it comes to doing what's needed to meet net zero targets, the UK still has a 'policy gap' - and 70% of that gap is down to transport.
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'The idea that developers are going to build themselves out of profits by reducing land values & house prices is pretty naive' (Aydin Dikerdem). Good piece - solving the housing crisis will take investment, positive planning & an active state.

The Future Homes Standard won't deliver the energy efficient homes that we need.

So why has it fallen short? And how are govt. arguments against ambition limited?

Sue Riddlestone of Bioregional outlines the answers in this guest blog, read here 👇
greenallianceblog.org.uk/2024/04/04/why…

In 2015, the govt dropped its zero carbon homes policy Doh! 🤦‍♂️Now, it looks as if the Future Homes Standard will not deliver the energy efficient homes we need. Sue Riddlestone of Bioregional sets out how it should be improved.
greenallianceblog.org.uk/2024/04/04/why…

Well, we could replace the CAP basic payment scheme with basic income, but it doesn't look much of a step forward. How about a public money for public goods system that benefits poorer farmers & the environment?
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I know many of you will be shocked, but this piece by Matt Ridley in the The Telegraph on solar farms has quite a lot wrong with it

Let’s start with the impact on farming. Getting to the target of 70GW will take ~0.4-0.7% of English farmland

Not the ‘5-10%’ Ridley claims…

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'Taxpayers are to pay hundreds of millions of pounds to cover the cost of dismantling some of Shell’s dirtiest oil rigs in the North Sea' - a 'you couldn't make it up' story that's crept into the Telegraph, among all the anti-net zero stuff.
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.Dustin Benton / dbenton.bsky.social, Green Alliance: “Carbon capture and storage is likely to be necessary to reach net zero, but the technology can’t be used as an excuse to carry on drilling oil and gas, or expanding the production of petrol and diesel.”