Tim Beaumont: Green Alliance’s first director defined our unique purpose
This post is by Nigel Haigh, former director of the Institute for European Environmental Policy and chair of Green Alliance from 1989 to 1998. Of all...
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With parliament gridlocked, divestment is a creative approach to climate action
In case you haven’t heard, the UK is in a political crisis. Parliament has come to a Brexit standstill, and any resolution will be fraught with unre...
Four decades of getting an ‘ecological perspective’ into politics: we are 40
According to an early promotional leaflet, Green Alliance was set up “by a group of individuals concerned that Britain’s political parties were fa...
The shackles need to come off our national parks to combat climate change
This post is by Andrew McCloy, chair of the Peak District National Park Authority. He writes here in a personal capacity. Melanie Haiken recently outl...
We need to worry about what Theresa May’s speech means for our environment
In her Mansion House speech in March 2017 the prime minister said “As we leave the EU we will uphold environmental standards and go further to prote...
We need to change our land use practices now to solve the environmental crisis
This post is by Georgina Mace, professor of biodiversity and ecosystems at University College London. The recent UN IPBES Global Assessment on biodive...
Why aren’t farmers loudly (and proudly) demanding climate action?
While travelling with my dad from Little Rock to Springdale, Arkansas, we took the scenic route through the Ozark National Forest. My lungs, eyes and...
Could Theresa May be remembered for anything other than Brexit?
Legacy is “planting seeds in a garden you never get to see” rapped one of America’s founding fathers on the day of his death, at least according...
How citizens’ juries can help to create a mandate for climate action
Today, a pub landlady, a student and a retired police inspector will be amongst those sitting in a church hall in the Lake District, debating the futu...
Changes parliament should make to improve public scrutiny of legislation
This week I gave evidence to the Liaison Committee, which comprises the chairs of all of parliament’s select committees. It is looking into the effe...
