Climate change
Our continuing reliance on fossil fuels places an unsustainable and dangerous burden on our environment, as well as aggravating international tensions and jeopardising progress towards social justice. We should continue to advance international action on climate change, playing a leading role in pressing for and delivering international agreement.
Latest articles on Climate change
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No community-led projects on London Green Fund list, London Assembly hears (22 Jan 2013)
The Mayor’s London Green Fund has not found any commercially viable co-operative or community-led projects to invest in, the London Assembly heard this week[1]. The Fund was set up in 2009 with £100m[2] to invest on commercial rates to projects in the capital with a positive impact on the environment. Returns from the loans and [...]
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Labour Co-operative MPs call for commitment to co-ops in Energy Bill debate (20 Dec 2012)
Yesterday the much heralded Energy Bill received its 2nd reading in Westminster. Parliamentary Officer Joe Fortune reports on the debate where Labour and Co-operative Members of Parliament So the Energy Bill finally returned to the House of Commons this week. This complicated piece of legislation is at least clear on one thing – there is little [...]
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‘The Power Book’ launched at Labour Party Conference (25 Oct 2012)
The Co-operative Party, along with SERA, the Local Government Information Unit and the Shadow DECC team, earlier this month launched ‘The Power Book’, a new pamphlet that looks at the potential of community and co-operatively owned energy. Writing in the introduction to the book, the Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Caroline [...]
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New pamphlet from SERA: Rio+20: Our second chance for a sustainable future? (19 Jun 2012)
SERA has today launched a new pamphlet, Rio+20: Our second chance for a sustainable future?, as our contribution to the debate at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development taking place in Brazil. Contributors to the pamphlet include Shadow Secretary of State for DEFRA, Mary Creagh MP, Shadow Energy Secretary, Caroline Flint MP, and Shadow International Development [...]
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Co-operative London: green ideas to help Labour win (5 Aug 2011)
As part of our consultation on policy ideas for the 2012 London elections, Melanie Smallman of SERA – the Labour Environment Campaign sets out the environmental challenge and how green ideas can be part of a winning Labour offer. In these harsh economic times, ethical issues – like our impact on the environment or on [...]
