Last week The Restart Project hosted an event for parliamentarians to learn more about the economic and environmental benefits of...

The World Health Organization has called the Paris Agreement “a fundamental public health agreement, potentially the most important...

On 17 April peers debated an amendment to the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, which aims to set a new standard in data...

A cross-party group of Peers and MPs have urged the government to bring forward forest risk commodities legislation to reduce the...

The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers bill aims to enhance consumer powers and protections, including in respect of unfair commercial practices. As introduced, it did not contain any explicit environmental content, despite the significant role consumers will play in reaching net zero and addressing the nature crisis through their decisions about when and how they make purchasing decisions.   As a result, the bill offered an opportunity for Peers to consider issues wh

Last week, Apolitical published its Quarterly Global Insights Report on How climate is changing everyone's job in government . Apolitical...

Baroness Helene Hayman Published in BusinessGreen : 12 March 2024• 3 min read Baroness Hayman sets out why she is proposing an amendment to the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill which would make it easier and cheaper to repair electronics The runaway success of BBC One's The Repair Shop speaks of a much wider public appetite for a society that throws away less and mends more. Research  has found that two thirds of people are regularly frustrated by products that

Earlier this week, P4P Peers joined cross-party parliamentarians, representatives from the armed services and wider sector and policy...

On Tuesday, Peers for the Planet’s (P4P) annual parliamentary reception took place in the House of Lords to celebrate four years of cross-party working on climate and nature.   The event brought together members of the P4P cross-party grouping and parliamentarians across both houses and political divides, as well as over 100 representatives from across diverse sectors and civil society who have supported the groups work.   P4P Chair Baroness Hayman, opened the event by paying

Amongst Peers’ work on finance and financial services, one topic with the potential to drive a system-level change in action on climate...

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