Tackling the Climate Emergency - a Personal View of our 2019 Policy Paper and its influence on the Party.
Calling out Carbon Neutral target dates is pretty Meaningless Gesture Politics. Background
Calling out Carbon Neutral target dates is pretty Meaningless Gesture Politics. Background
Green Heroes Campaign
No Bristol Airport Expansion North Somerset Council turned down planning permission for expansion of Bristol airport after a campaign by Libdems and others.
Tackling the Climate Emergency - LibDem Policy Paper 139 was proposed by Duncan Brack. and accepted by the 2019 Autumn Conference.
Recently it was announced that funding for a bypass around the city of Hereford was being withdrawn, putting the future of the project in doubt. For me this was very disappointing news, as I strongly support building it. Now, you might reasonably ask why would a Green Liberal Democrat feel that way? More roads are bad, right? Well, although I once opposed it, I have become convinced that building this road is in the best interests of local people.
The Role of Tax and Subsidy in Tackling the Climate Emergency The role of taxation, in particular, as a tool in dealing with the climate emergency has been deliberately overlooked by governments afraid of being punished at the ballot box for any extra taxes. I believe that the electorate is now sufficiently aware of the likely effects of climate change that there will be an acceptance of extra taxation as long as there is transparency in the destination of the extra taxation. The extra taxation must be destined for subsidies for home insulation and electric cars and other greenhouse gas saving measures, as well as for mitigation measures such as flood defences and research and development of renewable energies, energy storage and carbon capture and storage and hydrogen manufacture from non-carbon sources.