Access to green and blue spaces – our parks, community gardens, rivers, ponds, and wetlands – is not a luxury. It is as essential to our health and wellbeing as clean water and fresh air. Yet time and again, the chance to design these spaces into our towns and cities is being squandered. That is why I recently tabled two amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill in the House of Lords. Both are designed to lock into law a simple but powerful principle: that access to

There are three amendments currently in the UK House of Lords that are critical to our children's health and wellbeing - each of which offers clear action for Government. ☠️ 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗦 The first amendment would ban the use of PFAS - forever chemicals - in school uniforms. These chemicals are linked to significant health and environmental concerns. France has already banned them and the EU moving the same way. You can read more about PFAS in school uni

Nitrogen is one of the most abundant elements on the planet and is a key building block of life. As humans we have disrupted the natural nitrogen cycle, by taking it from its inert state and transforming it for use across the economy in areas such as agriculture, industry, transport and energy. Yesterday, the Sustainable Nitrogen Alliance briefed the P4P group on the impacts of nitrogen pollution in the UK. Peers heard how there is no pathway to reach net zero and revers