A huge raft of environmental reforms is promised in the Labour Party's draft manifesto, writes Oliver Tickell. Among the highlights: a ban on fracking; a clean energy policy based on renewables and efficiency; no commitment to new nuclear power; to meet our Paris Agreement obligations on climate; to give companies a legal obligation to protect the environment; to retain all EU environment laws post-Brexit; and multilateral nuclear disarmament.
… Corbyn's green vision wins: leaked manifesto promises huge … the Climate Change Act under threat, Labour's vision of the UK's future just looks all the … such as a commitment to expanding aviation provision, controversial port expansion, and …
Right wing media and politicians have chosen the Somerset Levels as their battle field for fighting the 'green' agenda. There is just one problem - the facts. On the Levels themselves, there is a remarkable consensus about the way forward - and the future is Green.
… England, and the Environment Agency. The 'Vision 2030' document, agreed at the end of … Boards - one of the bodies signed up to Vision 2030: Maximise the conveyance of the … document, which is entirely consistent with Vision 2030. There may be some slight scope …
The real significance of last night's TV debate was the vigorous assertion of a new progressive politics in Britain, expressed by the 'trimulierate' of female party leaders from the SNP, Greens and Plaid Cymru - the three sharing a positive vision of a green, fair, inclusive future in which all participate in the nation's prosperity.
… Plaid Cymru - the three sharing a positive vision of a green, fair, inclusive future in … left crumbling and underfunded. They shared a vision of a greener Britain, taking a lead on … new national political force with a positive vision of the future for Britain and all who …
Book review: Martin Dorey's No.More.Plastic. doesn't offer the sustainable, long-term solutions we need.
… of pesticide and fertiliser. Sustainable vision With typical yields of about 500 … We must be guided by a broader, longer-term vision of the sustainable future we need to …
Suspended aerial cycle paths are the way for Boris to extend cycle superhighways over London's busiest and most dangerous roundabouts. The Ecologist understands he is looking at the idea ...
… - literally - add a new dimension to Boris's vision of a cycle-friendly London and allow … - literally - add a new dimension to Boris's vision of a cycle-friendly London. …
The EU faces a choice: a green, democratic future of clean prosperity and social justice? Or a dirty future of corporate domination with resurgent nuclear power, expanding fossil fuels, GMO agriculture and weak human and environmental protection? Junckers' Commission represents the latter. We must assert our own vision - or there will be little worth staying in for.
… represents the latter. We must assert our own vision - or there will be little worth staying … anti-EU right - we must be offered a positive vision of the Europe we want, and that our …
Sue Lloyd Roberts, the brilliant investigative journalist who died yesterday, was a unique phenomenon in the BBC, writes Oliver Tickell - fearless, rooting out the dirtiest of secrets, fighting the cause of the oppressed, abused, exploited and downtrodden. Now the BBC must keep her mission alive with a new, independent unit dedicated to human rights worldwide.
… controversial, broadcast on prime time television. And perhaps that is the single biggest … Correspondent (Radio 4), broadcast June 1996. Vision 2020, Malaysia's plan to become a fully … has total control over the country's television, radio and press. But it has also …
A farming revolution is under way in Africa, pushed by giant corporations and the UK's aid budget. It will surely be good for the global economy, writes Sophie Morlin-Yron, but will Africa's small farmers see the benefit?
… from the World Food Program and World Vision. And despite the involvement of some … is obvious. They have no place in the new vision of agriculture that is sweeping across …
Vivian Woodell, social entrepreneur and founder of the phone co-op, shares his thoughts on the growing co-operative movement and its role in building collaborative, sustainable alternatives to the standard model. Interview by Oliver Tickell.
… a new chief executive who shared our vision, and we helped to start a broader … just started up a successful new childcare division, and its Co-operative Energy …
Campaigners fear that the abolition of DECC, the department of energy and climate change, indicates that climate will take a low priority in Theresa May's policy agenda. Meanwhile the pro-fracking, pro-nuclear Andrea Leadsom is in charge of environment department Defra.
… its now up to her to set out her alternative vision of farming and fisheries under direct …
An ambitious plan to make a wholly renewable energy system cheaper than fossil fuels within a decade has been launched today and is set to receive its first hearing at the G7 Summit in Germany next week.
… changes will be needed to bring the Apollo vision to reality, for example with the scale …
The UK is embarking on a reckless endeavour in its attempted nuclear union with China, write David Lowry & Oliver Tickell. China's investments will come at a high price, one that transcends mere money and the undoubted security risk inherent in its control of key elements of our energy infrastructure. At risk is the UK's very future as a sovereign, independent nation.
… relish a sense of achievement proclaim a vision for the future ... with decisions often … nuclear deals with China. "There is a big division between the money men and the security … to Britain President Xi praised Britain's "visionary and strategic choice" to become …
Are you suffering from cognitive dissonance? You should be, writes Oliver Tickell. After the most ferocious attack a UK government has ever mounted on the environment, David Cameron just claimed that his is the 'greenest government ever', as Amber Rudd proclaims her commitment to climate action. What's going on?
… "Governments can set the direction, set the vision, set the ambition" , Rudd went on. "We …
On Monday the World Bank's Conference on Land and Poverty begins in the US. But farmer organizations, indigenous groups, trade unions and others denounce the whole exercise as a sham that, in tandem with other Bank initiatives, is all about accelerating corporate land grabs and robbing the poor that the Bank was founded to assist.
… "Access to land is threatened by the Bank's vision of land as a market commodity and by …
Withdrawal Agreement fails to deliver vital environmental safeguards.
… crops that sustain human existence, Gove's vision of UK agriculture offers a truly … which has not been complied with, no such provision applies following a UK court judgment. … in the European Treaties and include provisions for all public bodies to act in …
Depressed at the Breferendum result? So you might be, if you are bothered by the environment, social justice and a successful economy, writes Oliver Tickell. But it may never come to that. In fact it's just possible that the Brexit vote could deliver us a reformed 'peoples' EU' that includes the UK, under a progressive government led by Jeremy Corbyn. Here's how.
… pro-EU platform. This would be based on his vision of a social EU - an EU of the people, …
A family of wild of beavers has established on an English river for the first time since Henry VIII. But now the Government has decided to trap them and consign them to captivity in a zoo or wildlife centre. Defenders of wilderness are now demanding: keep our wild beavers free!
… unimpressed by the anglers' apocalyptic visions. According to District councillor …
The European Parliament today called on the Commission and member states like the UK to stop funding the 'New Alliance' plan to force export-oriented agribusiness onto Africa. Instead they want support for small-scale family farms and agroecology.
… partnerships is based on an ideological vision of development that that is dangerously …
Ghana's government is desperate to pass a Plant Breeders Bill that would remove farmers' ancient 'seed freedom' to grow, retain, breed and develop crop varieties - while giving corporate breeders a blanket exemption from seed regulations. Now the farmers are fighting back.
… worldwide movement for food sovereignty : a vision for sustainable food grown for and by …
After ten massive renewable energy cuts that are leaving the UK falling well short of EU renewable energy targets, an eleventh! The axe is now falling on solar heating, writes Oliver Tickell - even though it's meant to be at the core of the government's renewable energy strategy.
… approaches v) Lack of a long-term vision vi) A policy 'cliff-edge' in 2020." And …