P4P Vice-Chair Baroness Rosie Boycott was interviewed by Isabella Kaminski on her ongoing campaign for a new crime of ecocide to be recognised to target those causing severe environmental damage.   The article covers Baroness Boycott’s broader focus in parliament on the environment as well as her current work on a report on ultra processed foods as a crossbench member of the  Lords’ Food, Diet and Obesity Select Committee .   Baroness Boycott's work on ecocide includes a priv

Yesterday, a number of P4P Peers joined 50 cross-party parliamentarians in writing to the Prime Minister to call for leadership at home and internationally t o increase efforts to address the climate crisis. The letter outlines a number of actions that will help the UK to regain its international leadership, including ending the licensing of new oil and gas fields, appointing a climate envoy ahead of COP29, and releasing an ambitious UK National Biodiversity Strategy and Acti

On Monday, cross-party parliamentarians held a roundtable discussion with Secretary John Kerry, United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, as part of his final visit to Europe ahead of leaving his post as climate envoy and joining the campaign to re-elect Joe Biden.   The discussion explored how parliamentarians can play their part in delivering the global climate commitments made at COP28 and the agreement signed by nearly 200 countries to "transition away from fo