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What can national government learn from the Greater Manchester Green Summit?

Posted on 9 April, 2019 by Paul McNamee One comment

“Manchester is the place where people do things,” said Edward Abbott Parry, judge of Manchester County Court. “Don’t talk about what you are going to do, do it. That is the Manchester habit.” A love of Manchester and its new city region (including towns like Wigan, Oldham and Bolton) was on full display at the second annual Greater Manchester Authority Green Summit earlier this month. I don’t claim Manchester as my home town (I’m a ‘Woolyback’, a non-scouse Merseysider) but I did go to University there, lived there in my early twenties and have a deep love of the city. Read more

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What is Britain’s place in the world? Climate resilience and soft power

Posted on 8 April, 2019 by Dustin Benton One comment

This is not a story about Brexit. Outside the febrile corridors of Westminster, the 99.1% of the global population that isn’t British is only occasionally perplexed by the quixotic story of Brexit. Instead, the British story in the world continues to be told by its network of embassies and governmental organisations, like Ordnance Survey, the BBC, the Met Office and the NHS. What may surprise many is to learn that a central part of the UK’s story about its place in the world is its role in addressing climate change. Read more

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Brexit means the UK can fully demonstrate its environmental credentials

Posted on 28 August, 2018 by Green Alliance blog 2 comments

This post is by Lord Howard, the former leader of the Conservative Party and former secretary of state for the environment.

The British people have voted to take back control of their money, their borders and their laws. This huge transfer of power back to the British people gives us the opportunity to fulfil the government’s ambition to be the first ever British government to leave our environment in a better state than we found it.

Political leadership

How to keep up UK leadership on clean energy and climate after Brexit

Posted on 13 February, 2017 by Green Alliance blog 2 comments

This post is by Jonathan Gaventa, director of E3G.

The UK has made significant progress in clean energy and emissions reductions in recent years, with greenhouse gas emissions now 38 per cent below 1990 levels. But Brexit raises questions about how this progress will be continued.

In principle, it should be both possible and desirable for the UK to emerge from the Brexit process with just as strong a position on climate and clean energy as before.