Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
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Green Alliance is a think tank working to ensure UK political leaders deliver ambitious solutions to global environmental issues. Our three core aims are: To make the environment a central political issue; To integrate the environment into public policy and decision making; To stimulate new thinking and advance the environmental agenda into new areas.
Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
2w ago
After six weeks of lurid headlines, unedifying debates and more talk about tax than even an economist can handle, the general election is over. Keir Starmer is unpacking at 10 Downing Street and Rishi Sunak might be looking for flights to California. As the new ..read more
Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
2w ago
This post is by Matthew Spencer, global director landscapes at IDH and former director of Green Alliance. I wish I’d had a bit more help in my early twenties, when I had bags of energy and didn’t know how to channel it professionally. I still ..read more
Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
3w ago
This post is by Citizen Zoo It was an experience unlike any other. The atmosphere was electric, as over 350 organisations and a reported 80,000 people marched through the streets of London on 22 June, demanding action to Restore Nature Now. Arriving in Parliament Square, activists ..read more
Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
1M ago
Labour wants to build lots of new homes, modernise the country’s creaking infrastructure and decarbonise power. It sees an ambitious building programme as fundamental to tackling the UK’s low investment, low productivity, low growth economy and generating the wealth a Labour government will need to ..read more
Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
1M ago
It should be common sense that the emissions from burning fossil fuels should be factored into decisions about whether to allow new oil and gas extraction, even if the combustion takes place in a different location to extraction. Otherwise, decisions about extracting fossil fuels ignore ..read more
Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
1M ago
This post is by Charles Watson, chairman and founder of River Action. Having spent a 25 year career in the crisis management end of the public relations industry, I recall counselling clients repeatedly that litigation was never something to take on lightly and the risks ..read more
Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
1M ago
This post is by Yasmine El-Gabry, senior parliamentary campaigns manager at Global Action Plan. Air pollution is the biggest environmental threat to our health and is associated with up to 43,000 deaths per year in the UK. It’s undeniable that this issue must be front ..read more
Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
1M ago
This post is by Lord Deben. We caused it and we can overcome it but we’d prefer to ignore it. That’s the real climate change issue in this election. All the major parties are signed up to net zero 2050 but that’s not where the ..read more
Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
1M ago
This post is by Miranda Beacham, a member of The Society of Pension Professionals and head of UK responsible investment at Aegon Asset Management. Many look to governments to act on climate change but, to combat this crisis, significant effort is needed from everyone. As ..read more
Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
1M ago
This post is by Paul Brannen of Timber Development UK and former MEP. The law of unintended consequences is always lying in wait for the unsuspecting politician. For instance, will Labour’s worthy commitment to build 1.5 million homes end up exacerbating climate breakdown? Let’s begin ..read more