Despite widespread local concerns, targets imposed by Whitehall mean that 33,500 new homes have to be built in Greater Cambridge (ie South Cambs and Cambridge City) by 2031. There was infuriatingly little democratic accountability in setting this target, but we do have a real opportunity to influence the sort of homes that get built. This […]
On 2 May 2019 the Committee on Climate Change have given historic advice to the UK Government to reach a net zero emissions target by 2050, in line with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C target. We welcome this, but as the report itself says, this is the bare minimum. The report advises the government to set […]
Whenever I sit in traffic jams on the A14 “improvement” scheme, I’m saddened at the loss of the trees and the massive belt of devastation either side of the road. It was made worse recently when I heard that the A14 improvement scheme is in breach of its contractually binding agreements about air quality monitoring. […]
We are pleased that Daniel Zeichner was one of the early signatories to the the Climate Coalition’s cross party letter asking the Prime Minister to back an early UK net zero emissions target. He told us: “I signed the Climate Coalition’s Net Zero letter because the effects of man-made CO² emissions is one of the […]
We are pleased that Heidi Allen MP for South Cambs has signed the Climate Coalition’s cross party letter asking the Prime Minister to back an early UK net zero emissions target. Heidi Allen told us “I signed the cross-party letter on net zero emissions because we need to be more ambitious with our green targets. […]