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11 June 2022 / 11 November 2024 by daveeldervass
Air pollution – a public health crisis The Clean Air Bill proposed by Green Party Baroness Jenny Jones came top of the Lord’s ballot for private members bills and therefore, it stands a good chance of getting through all three stages in the Lords, before moving into the Commons. Baroness Jones has named her Clean […]
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National Campaigns
23 May 2022 / 12 November 2024 by daveeldervass
Back in February we advertised CPRE’s Star Count week to estimate the level of light pollution across the UK. The results are now in! Across the country as a whole, severe light pollution – when participants could only see 10 stars or fewer – fell for the second year in a row. After peaking in […]
18 May 2022 / 12 November 2024 by daveeldervass
The big plastic count has started! This week, thousands of people across the UK are taking part in the biggest ever investigation into household plastic. Together we’re collecting the evidence needed to push the government, supermarkets and companies to tackle the plastic crisis. It’s surely going to turn a few heads at your work, college, […]
27 February 2022 / 27 November 2024 by northhertsgreenparty
Article submitted by Deolinda Eltringham, Candidate for Hitchin Highbury and Hitchin South on March 10th We are excited to share with you the details of the CPRE’s annual Star Count event that is taking place between 26 February and 6 March. CPRE (The Countryside Charity) are asking for your help by counting stars to help […]
18 November 2021 / 1 December 2024 by
Support a petition to fund recycling programmes for medicine packets We invite you to sign a petition to fund a recycling scheme for medicine packets at https://bit.ly/30sojzw. TerraCycle have announced the closure of their medicine packet recycling scheme because they were overwhelmed with billions of medicine packets that people wanted to recycle. The scheme, that […]
1 September 2021 / 1 December 2024 by
Green MP Caroline Lucas is backing an official petition in a bid to trigger a parliamentary debate calling on the Government to pursue a Wellbeing Economy in the run up to the COP26 climate summit. The petition will need to reach 100,000 signatures to make the debate happen. The Commons Debate will focus on tangible […]
5 August 2021 / 1 December 2024 by
Sign the petition to strengthen the Environment Bill The current Environment Bill does not hold the government accountable and it does not make it a crime to destroy the environment and natural resources. The Green Party is demanding updates to the Environment Bill. These would, amongst other things, commit the UK government to categorise ecocide […]
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22 July 2021 / 1 December 2024 by
The Government plans to introduce a data sharing scheme called General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR). The Green Party are opposed to the GPDPR and we are concerned about the privacy of patients and that the collected data would be used by private firms with commercial interests. Even though the data will […]