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

On Tuesday P4P Peers met with a cross-party delegation of MPs from the House of Representatives in the Moroccan parliament.   The meeting explored how the UK and Morocco can work together to tackle climate change, at both government and parliamentary level.   The delegation outlined how Morocco is committed to contributing to global efforts to tackle the climate crisis, with one of its key contributions hosting COP22 in Marrakech in 2016. Since then, domestic efforts to tackl

Last week, P4P Peers and Staff attended a workshop convened by academics at UWE Bristol to discuss a proposed new crime of ecocide – mass damage and destruction of the environment - and how this could be implemented both internationally and at a national level.   The workshop brought together parliamentarians, councillors, legal and academic experts and representatives of the Stop Ecocide International campaign to explore the opportunities, challenges and implications of a n