DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2021

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas tabled the legislation as a Private Members’ Bill in June, and it has since won the support of 110 MPs across eight political parties. In a matter of years we will all be benefitting and may even be able to say that, finally, our leaders did something right for nature.”.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

Bartley, who is the Green Party's longest-serving leader, said he was "immensely grateful for the opportunity to put the climate emergency front and centre on the political agenda", but that quitting the role would allow more time to spend with his family and provide his successors time to prepare for the next General Election.

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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I’ve never seen political turbulence like it – three UK Prime Ministers in a couple of months. Lucas grinned and applauded silently. But, how Green is Rishi Sunak? But then on to the forthcoming COP27.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

In fact, the coronavirus crisis has seen thousands of business and political leaders recognise the need to address long term risks and step up efforts to build a greener, healthier, and more resilient 21st century economy.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2023

The firms were then featured prominently on panels alongside these cabinet ministers, MPs, and local political leaders. There are serious questions to be answered over the Northern Research Group’s dodgy donations,” Green Party MP Caroline Lucas told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 14, 2022

Lord Moore was confronted by Green Party leader Caroline Lucas MP about his association with the group on BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions on Friday 11 March. Growing Political Influence. Moore denied he was a GWPF trustee.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The meetings – which include in-person talks with the then Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng and his minister Greg Hands (now the Conservative Party chairman) – are revealed in research by Fossil Free Parliament (FFP), a group campaigning against fossil fuel influence on UK politics.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Green MP Caroline Lucas said the findings showed the Conservatives were “in the pockets of an industry responsible for vast and increasing quantities of greenhouse gas emissions”. He is also the CEO of Sheriff Global Group, which trades private jets, according to Politics Home. Not a Good Look’.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak's name is nowhere to be seen in the government's weak response to the Dasgupta Review, writes Green Party MP Caroline Lucas. In any case, the statisticians have already done their jobs - what is lacking is political action. Caroline Lucas is the Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion Caroline Lucas said that Net Zero Watch is among the groups “holding back vital progress to tackle the climate emergency”. It’s time to kick dirty fossil fuel-aligned interests out of our politics once and for all.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2024

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas labelled the decision “morally obscene”. The UK government controversially approved the Rosebank project in September, despite the International Energy Agency stating that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with the ambition to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

The IEA has extensive influence in politics and the media. From Brexit to Trussonomics, the IEA has consistently peddled and promoted destructive and damaging policies,” Green Party MP Caroline Lucas told DeSmog. The IEA also received a £21,000 grant from U.S. oil major ExxonMobil in 2005.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Government argues coal mine would be compatible with net zero goals, but MPs across political spectrum condemn move as a 'backward step' for UK climate action. Opening a coalmine in the UK now is a serious mistake: economic, social, environmental, financial and political," he said.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 6, 2020

That is a pretty big green light to say government’s should be far more ambitious when it comes to tackling the climate crisis then that have ever dreamed of being before," Green MP Caroline Lucas told the Compassion in Politics Podcast, which commissioned the poll.

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Terra Infirma

JULY 23, 2020

There was a very interesting segment on this week’s Guardian Politics podcast where the two challengers for the leadership of the Green Party went head to head. OK, that one MP is the very well respected Caroline Lucas MP, who punches way above her weight, but they do seem stuck. CC BY-SA 3.0, [link].

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

But great news for political opponents.". Green Party MP Caroline Lucas reacted with dismay to the news that the government intended to ignore the report's conclusions and press ahead with its plan to legalise shale gas extraction. "Mark was the biggest blocker of measures to protect nature, biodiversity, animal welfare.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

Lord Wharton has been criticised for holding a position of authority in higher education – representing a group of people that see climate change as a defining political issue – while holding a paid role with a company that supports the fossil fuel industry. Climate change will disproportionately affect young people.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

That is the conclusion of a new report published yesterday by the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on a New Green Deal, which is co-chaired by Green MP Caroline Lucas and Labour MP Clive Lewis. We know that every home can be its own power station," she added.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In week one of the Liz Truss premiership, we’ve seen the fracking ban reversed, new oil and gas fields approved and green levies scrapped”, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas told DeSmog. These climate-wrecking policies won’t help our efforts to tackle the cost of living scandal and the energy crisis, they’ll totally undermine them.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

Three day online festival to bring together political and business leaders to explore how the net zero transition will define the decade ahead. BusinessGreen has today unveiled the full agenda for the world's first Net Zero Festival , confirming the inaugural event will now take place as a fully virtual summit this autumn.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

When asked how they would perceive a political party downgrading climate change policy from being a priority issue, 38 per cent such a move would be 'damaging', 36 per cent described it as 'backwards', and 33 per cent said it would be 'dangerous'. The socialists and Caroline Lucas. But you will also get paid for it.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

Meanwhile, MPs from across the political spectrum today continued to call for Sunak to deliver an ambitious green recovery package. Green MP Caroline Lucas, who chairs the APPG Limits to Growth group, said the coronavirus crisis should prompt a proper review of the dominant global economic model.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

Chris Stark, chief executive of the CCC, has said that political leadership was “missing” in the pursuit of net zero. The government has been criticised for supporting the continued exploration of North Sea oil and gas sites, in the face of warnings from international climate and energy bodies.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

All the top reaction from leading figures across business, politics, academia, think tanks and green groups to the CCC's latest assessment of the UK's preparedness for climate change. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the top comments from business, politics, academia, think tanks and civil society.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, who also spoke during last night's debate, said UK farmers and environmental standards "face being mown down by [the] destructive leviathan of US agribusiness" as a result of last night's Parliamentary vote. — Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) October 12, 2020.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas: Brilliant news! — Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) February 27, 2020. Tim Shipman, political editor of the Sunday Times : Is Britain open for business? The biggest collective failure of politics in my adult lifetime. Some sanity is finally prevailing.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas: Brilliant news! — Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) February 27, 2020. Tim Shipman, political editor of the Sunday Times : Is Britain open for business? The biggest collective failure of politics in my adult lifetime. Some sanity is finally prevailing.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

But against a backdrop of near constant political crisis in recent years, from Brexit and Covid-19 to war in Ukraine and soaring inflation, the Committee's repeated warnings on climate adaptation have largely failed to pushed the government into concerted action.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I am saddened to learn of the passing of our recently retired Chief Environmental Officer, Dennis Murphey,” said Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas. “Mr. Caroline (Molly) Davis, assistant professor & director of Environmental Studies Program, University of Missouri-Kansas City and EMC commissioner. Burial services will be private.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Green MP Caroline Lucas said: “Russian coal billionaires with close ties to Putin should be nowhere near the COP27 climate conference. Melnichenko transferred ownership of both SUEK and EuroChem to his wife in March, the day before E.U. sanctions were imposed on him, according to Reuters.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

However, despite widespread calls across the political divide, no further support or funding schemes were announced today targeted at enhancing energy efficiency by upgrading the UK's notoriously draughty housing stock through measures such as insulation, heat pumps and rooftop solar panels.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

There is a widespread political, economic, business, and economic consensus that renewables, energy efficiency, and net zero are a key part of the solution to the UK's challenges this winter and beyond - it should be difficult for the new PM to ignore.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

And today the government faced a wave of criticism from MPs from across the political spectrum who accused it of failing to deliver a coherent plan for delivering net zero emissions and mobilising sufficient investment in the transition.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

"Nearly every industry and sector, representatives from almost every business reached out to us, to tell us how, with the right support, they were willing to go further, faster, and to seize the benefits of net zero with both hands," he told an audience of movers and shakers from business, politics, academia, and the NGO community.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said: Great to have new Department for Net Zero. The arrival of a new minister with a new focus on science and innovation is the perfect time to deliver on that promise."

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said: "This report confirms that genuine energy security requires embracing abundant and affordable renewables to cut energy bills as well as carbon emissions.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Has anyone ever faced a shorter political honeymoon? With the government's commitment to achieving Net Zero by 2050 we can see that there is political will, however, this needs to be backed up by policy for the renewable energy and clean technology sector.". It makes economic and environmental sense.".

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