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
4d ago
This is an extract from the keynote speech given by RT Hon Ed Miliband MP, shadow secretary of state for energy security and net zero, at the launch of the latest update of Green Alliance’s Net zero policy tracker on 19 March 2024. Today I ..read more
Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
1w ago
This post is by Fiona Dear, co-director of The Restart Project. The UK is currently the world’s second top producer of electrical waste per person and is widely expected to take the top spot this year. That fact tends to surprise people, but more surprising ..read more
Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
1w ago
This post is by Shirley Rodrigues, London’s deputy mayor for environment and energy. Nearly eight years ago, as the mayoral candidate, Sadiq Khan made a promise to be the greenest mayor London has ever had. He was responding to a manifesto for a greener London ..read more
Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
2w ago
Today is International Women’s Day. A day marked around the world, celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. Last week, the House of Commons debated ‘International Women’s Day: language in politics’, a particularly pertinent issue in mainstream media and politics of late ..read more
Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
2w ago
The spring 2024 budget, probably the last fiscal event before the election, was mostly about the politics, while largely ducking the serious underlying challenges facing the UK. Tackling the UK’s chronic problems of sluggish growth, stagnating productivity, high debt and low investment have all been ..read more
Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
2w ago
This post is by Laura Sandys CBE, chair of Green Alliance and non-executive director of SSE Transmission, Highview Power and Ohme Global. Many of us, not least the great team at Green Alliance, have been pushing for Ofgem’s remit to include the delivery of net ..read more
Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
3w ago
This post is by Guy Thompson, group sustainability director at Wessex Water and managing director of EnTrade, a not-for-profit Wessex Water business. The privatised water industry model is under unprecedented scrutiny. Politicians from all parties are competing to talk tough about water companies and, with ..read more
Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
1M ago
Labour’s pledge to spend £28 billion a year on its Green Prosperity Plan was announced by Rachel Reeves in 2021 (“I am committing the next Labour government to an additional £28 billion of capital investment in our country’s green transition for each and every year ..read more
Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
1M ago
The Guardian has reported that Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) officials withheld analysis of upland farm incomes under its post-Brexit farm payments schemes, fearing many would sell their farms if they saw it. But our analysis suggests this wouldn’t need to be ..read more
Inside track - Green Alliance's blog on environmental policy and politics
1M ago
Nature is in trouble, nowhere less so than the UK, one of the most nature depleted countries in the world. The disappearance of formerly common species like the hedgehog or sparrow, the absence of birdsong and the pollution of once vibrant waterways are upsetting signs ..read more