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Labour Sticks To Its Guns On Inheritance Tax Despite Farmer Backlash
Labour Sticks To Its Guns On Inheritance Tax Despite Farmer Backlash
Environment
The Government is holding firm on changes to agricultural relief despite backlash from farmers facing inheritance tax for the first time.
Greens Urge Government To Rethink Tax On Farming
Environment
Greens Urge Government To Rethink Tax On Farming
Committee Chair Says Finding Money For Climate Goals Will Be Biggest Challenge For COP29
Environment
Committee Chair Says Finding Money For Climate Goals Will Be Biggest Challenge For COP29
Tory Leadership Candidates Warned Treating Net Zero Like A 'Burden' Is An 'Electoral Mistake'
Environment
Tory Leadership Candidates Warned Treating Net Zero Like A "Burden" Is An "Electoral Mistake"
'Truly Shocking' Analysis Shows National Parks Disproportionately Impacted By Sewage Spills
Environment
"Truly Shocking" Analysis Shows National Parks Disproportionately Impacted By Sewage Spills
Government's New GB Energy Will Partner With Crown Estate
Environment
Government's New GB Energy Will Partner With Crown Estate
New Lib Dem MP Rejects 'Binary' NIMBY VS YIMBY Debate
Environment
New Lib Dem MP Rejects "Binary" NIMBY VS YIMBY Debate
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Greening the Nation 2024 Partner content
Environment
By Total Politics Impact
Greening the Nation 2024
UK’s race to net-zero threatened by shifting EV targets and infrastructure challenges
Environment
By Matt Western MP
UK’s race to net-zero threatened by shifting EV targets and infrastructure challenges
Real solutions for a climate-resilient future
Environment
By Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
Real solutions for a climate-resilient future
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Labour MP Calls For Electoral Reform After 'Most Disproportionate' General Election Result Ever
Labour MP Calls For Electoral Reform After "Most Disproportionate" General Election Result Ever
Political parties
Labour MPs Push For 'Healthier' Parliament By Tightening Alcohol Sales And Creating More Natural Light
Labour MPs Push For "Healthier" Parliament By Tightening Alcohol Sales And Creating More Natural Light
Parliament
The government must tackle distrust in politics – starting with our voting system
The government must tackle distrust in politics – starting with our voting system
By Alex Sobel MP
Political parties
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A nuclear kettle of fish at Hinkley Point C
Environment
By Tali Fraser
A nuclear kettle of fish at Hinkley Point C
Is a trawler’s worth of fish getting in the way of our nuclear ambitions? Tali Fraser investigates something fishy going on around Hinkley Point C
Tory Leadership Candidates Warned Treating Net Zero Like A 'Burden' Is An 'Electoral Mistake'
Environment
Tory Leadership Candidates Warned Treating Net Zero Like A "Burden" Is An "Electoral Mistake"
Framing net zero as a “burden” was an “electoral mistake” for the Tories, according to the director of the Conservative Environment Network, who has urged the party to be more positive about the green agenda.
Growth, Railways And Energy Focus Of Labour Government's First King's Speech
Environment
Growth, Railways And Energy Focus Of Labour Government's First King's Speech
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has set out 40 pieces of legislation the Labour Government will aim to deliver in his first King's Speech.
Environment news
The government is meeting just six per cent of its green homes targets – but bold action has public support
Environment
By Luke Murphy
The government is meeting just six per cent of its green homes targets – but bold action has public support
In just over 50 days, the UK plays host to the pivotal international climate summit COP26 in Glasgow. To be a credible host, the UK must get its own house in order yet its net zero strategy – the UK government’s long-awaited plan for reducing emissions – and other crucial plans, including its heat and buildings strategy, have still not been published.
Partner content
Environment
By Coca-Cola Europacific Partners
MSP Visits Coca-Cola Manufacturing Site in East Kilbride
Power Up: How can we support the UK's energy transition? Partner content
Coronavirus
By Legal & General
Power Up: How can we support the UK's energy transition?
If the UK is to meet its net zero ambitions, then over the next three decades we will need to drive a fundamental shift in the way that energy is generated, distributed, and used.
This Parliamentary term is make-or-break for effective climate leadership and global action
Environment
By Philip Dunne MP
This Parliamentary term is make-or-break for effective climate leadership and global action
If we don’t take the necessary action now, and put some substance behind the bold and ambitious climate statements of intent, I have no doubt that we will live to regret it in years to come.
If the UK wants to be a climate world leader, we must say no to deep-sea mining
Environment
By Baroness Bennett
If the UK wants to be a climate world leader, we must say no to deep-sea mining
The development of new technologies are opening up the possibility of mining previously inaccessible ocean depths, causing vastly more damage.
Boris Johnson must confront the climate crisis head on and bury plans for a new coal mine
Environment
By Tony Bosworth
Boris Johnson must confront the climate crisis head on and bury plans for a new coal mine
Instead of backing plans to build a new coal mine in Cumbria that will make the climate emergency worse, it should put its focus into cutting emissions and creating green jobs.
Partner content
Environment
By Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
Battersea response to Government's new Pet Theft Report
Partner content
Environment
By NOAH
NOAH endorses new report to support pets in rented accommodation
NOAH is delighted to welcome and endorse the new Heads for Tails! report published today by Co-Founder of AdvoCATS, Jen Berazi. The report, endorsed by more than 30 charities, landlord groups, housing associations and more, outlines key policy recommendations that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) could take forward to make it easier for tenants to rent with pets in the UK.
Nearly a third of the world’s tree species are threatened with extinction – we need global action to stop them being lost forever
Environment
By Malin Rivers
Nearly a third of the world’s tree species are threatened with extinction – we need global action to stop them being lost forever
Trees are crucial to tackle the climate crisis, but are facing multifaceted threats. As world leaders consider the needs of the planet at COP26 this autumn, the needs of trees must be on the agenda.
Geronimo The Alpaca Has Been Killed After Weeks Of Protests
Environment
Geronimo The Alpaca Has Been Killed After Weeks Of Protests
Geronimo, the alpaca at the centre of an ongoing legal dispute between the government and its owner, has been put down, the government has confirmed.
Food Shortages Are Expected To Get Worse When New Post-Brexit Paperwork Kicks In
Environment
Food Shortages Are Expected To Get Worse When New Post-Brexit Paperwork Kicks In
Empty supermarket shelves and restaurants including McDonald's, Nando's, and Greggs running out of popular products have forced a growing labour crisis in the UK's supply chains into sharp focus once again.
Why supply chain engagement is crucial to meeting Net Zero Partner content
Environment
By Atkins
Why supply chain engagement is crucial to meeting Net Zero
To overcome environmental challenges we need to put collaboration at the forefront of the supply chain.
We must level-up to tackle the 'dream deficit' in women's sport
Environment
By Fay Jones MP
We must level-up to tackle the "dream deficit" in women's sport
As most of us emerged bleary eyed from 18 months of perpetual lockdowns, we saw astonishing success at the Tokyo Olympics. While many of us have struggled to keep up our exercise regime, British athletes were working hard (from home!) to achieve 65 medals and more success looks likely in the Paralympics.
Partner content
Environment
By Cruelty Free International
Cosmetics industry unites to demand UK upholds its cosmetics animal testing ban
Companies involved in the UK cosmetics industry have joined with animal protection NGO Cruelty Free International to issue a letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel demanding that the UK upholds its cosmetics animal testing bans and urging her to rule out new cosmetics tests on animals.
Climate-smart fisheries can change the fate of our oceans
Environment
By Gareth Cunningham
Climate-smart fisheries can change the fate of our oceans
An effective climate-smart fishing strategy would reduce the carbon emissions that come directly from the UK fishing fleet; enhance marine biodiversity by reducing the damage from unsustainable fishing practices.
Britain must kick its addiction to gas to protect consumers and the environment Partner content
Environment
By EDF
Britain must kick its addiction to gas to protect consumers and the environment
EDF’s Managing Director for Customers, Philippe Commaret, explains why global gas price increases are causing our energy bills to increase and why we must take action to kick our addiction to the fossil fuel
Partner content
Environment
By Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
Joint RCVS, BVA and BVNA statement on Afghan veterinarians
A joint statement from RCVS President Kate Richards, BVA President James Russell and BVNA President Jo Oakden on Afghan veterinarians
Flood Zone MPs Issue Plea To 'Radically Reform' Green Plans After Alarming Climate Report
Environment
Flood Zone MPs Issue Plea To "Radically Reform" Green Plans After Alarming Climate Report
After this week’s “code red” climate report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned the planet is warming at a more alarming rate than expected, MPs from both major parties fear recent flooding is set to get much worse and are calling for more to be done at both a local and global scale.
‘Levelling up’ must include reducing health inequalities Partner content
Environment
By Microsoft
‘Levelling up’ must include reducing health inequalities
The Prime Minister has begun to set out in earnest his plans for levelling up the UK. Not only does he want to bridge long-standing divides in economic performance between the regions, but also the great disparities there are regionally in healthy life expectancy.
Farmers can be the heroes of a greener world
Environment
By David Fursdon
Farmers can be the heroes of a greener world
We should be avoiding intensive forms of farming livestock and poultry that are polluting many of our waterways, reducing soil health, and decimating biodiversity.
Partner content
Environment
By Cruelty Free International
Despite ‘taking back control’, UK will now follow the EU in allowing animal tests on ingredients used in cosmetics
The Home Office has admitted in a letter this week to animal protection organisation Cruelty Free International that it now allows that most if not all animal testing for cosmetic ingredients – including those used solely in cosmetics. This represents a volte-face on the Government’s position for over two decades.
Our climate is at crisis point – the UK must go further and faster than net zero by 2050
Environment
By Caroline Lucas MP
Our climate is at crisis point – the UK must go further and faster than net zero by 2050
When the future of our planet relies on transformational change, a botched Green Homes Grant, a constantly delayed Treasury Net Zero Review, and a Transport Decarbonisation Plan which retains the £27 billion road building scheme, simply don’t cut it.
A complete system change is needed to save our planet
Environment
By Baroness Bennett
A complete system change is needed to save our planet
You can’t fix broken food, energy, or economic systems – let alone environmental systems – with the practices that broke them.
South Of England Should Expect More Flooding, According To UN Climate Report Scientist
Environment
South Of England Should Expect More Flooding, According To UN Climate Report Scientist
Southern England will be hit by more flooding unless there is a limit to global warming while all of Northern Europe can expect extreme rainfall if temperatures exceed 1.5 degrees.
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PT Cyber Security Conference
2024
The Minster Building, Central London
PT Cyber Security Conference
Women into Leadership - Manchester
2024
Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel
Women into Leadership - Manchester
Unlocking Grade 7
2024
Online
Unlocking Grade 7
Where and How can AI Support Citizen Services?
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Online
Where and How can AI Support Citizen Services?