Members of the House of Lords were successful in their attempts to table Private Members Bills (PMBs) which would improve our environmental legislation in the forthcoming session of Parliament.   Several Peers for the Planet Peers, including Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick, Lord Krebs and Lord Harries of Pentregarth were successful in the ballot which was drawn on Friday 19 July . The result means, cross-party peers will have several opportunities outside of the Government's

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

P4P Chair Baroness Hayman (pictured) has campaigned for the de-facto ban to be lifted for several years. Today the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves has confirmed the de facto ban on onshore wind developments in England will be lifted , placing onshore wind on the same footing as other energy developments in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), and committed that the Government will consult on bringing onshore wind into the nationally significant infrastructure projects reg

Although Parliament has now been dissolved, following the calling of an election for 4th July, peers remained active up to prorogation on efforts to improve a number of Bills before the House. One of those Bills – which has since fallen – was the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill, originally promised by Government to curb country-specific boycotts by public bodies. Whilst the reach of the Bill went much wider than environmental concerns, peers table

The framework for impartiality and accuracy for broadcasting has been in place since the 1950s, but in the past 10 years evidence from...

Following many years of work from Peers on sustainable fisheries, the Government has announced that it will trial Remote Electronic...

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

The Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill recently had its Committee stage debate in the House of Lords, with P4P Peers securing support from...

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...