On March 11th, we’re delighted to be joined by Will McCallum, co-executive director of Greenpeace, and South Cotswold MP who recently championed the Climate and Nature Bill in parliament, Roz Savage.
Last year was the first calendar year to globally reach more than 1.5°C of warming above pre-industrial levels. It was also the first year that renewables surpassed fossil fuels in the UK electricity mix.
With a new Labour government, the advent of GB energy, a National Wealth Fund, it has, in some senses, been a momentously positive time for climate news. However, Labour’s message of growth, with the approval of the Heathrow expansion, their keenness for North Sea oil extraction to go ahead despite a court case ruling it “unlawful”, and shelving of the Climate and Nature Bill paints a troubling picture.
The challenge we face is one and the same as the opportunity we have – how do progressives fight for substantial climate action in 2025?
Where are we winning?
With the most progressive parliament ever elected, more and more obvious, widespread effects of a warming world, and the rise of climate-denying right-wing populism we are sitting down with two people at the forefront of the climate fight to dig into where climate policy and pushback is in the UK:
- Will McCallum, co-executive of Greenpeace
- Dr Roz Savage MP South Cotswold, Liberal Democrat, and champion of the Climate and Nature Bill.
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