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

Last week the House of Lords held a series of debates  on the King’s Speech following the State Opening of Parliament on Wednesday 17 July.   Cross-party peers scrutinised the government’s proposed legislative agenda across six days of debates organised by thematic areas. Strong representations from cross-party peers and P4P supporters ensured climate and nature issues featured throughout the debates and that ministers were pressed on how their plans would deliver on decarbon

Bills announced in today’s  King’s Speech  today offer exciting opportunities for legislators to make faster progress on putting in place the policies needed to meet out climate and nature targets.  With such a big agenda for climate action, policy-makers will need to consider issue of fairness and how costs are distributed at every step of the way. Below is an initial overview of relevant bills. THEMES The Speech set out 39 pieces of legislation. In the official documents  a