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Kate backs British Lung Foundation in calling for robust air quality legislation

Kate attended a parliamentary reception in Westminster this week hosted by the British Lung Foundation (BLF) to hear first-hand about the devastating impact of air pollution to Trafford residents. At the reception Kate met healthcare professionals and individuals representing the 12 million people in the UK living with a lung condition,…

Kate Shows The Love to get on track to net zero emissions

Kate has joined hundreds of thousands of people up and down the country to show they want to protect the people, places and lives they love from climate change. The Climate Coalition’s ‘Show The Love’ campaign celebrates things that could be lost without efforts to tackle climate change – from…

Kate attends Citizens’ Assembly on climate change

On Sunday 26 January I was really pleased to attend the Citizens’ Assembly organised by six House of Commons committees with a remit on different aspects of climate change. The assembly consists of 110 people from across the country, from all different walks of life, brought together to discuss how…

Kate calls for an end to fuel poverty

Kate was the first candidate in the General Election to sign up to a Manifesto which commits to ensuring people aren’t driven to poverty by fuel costs. The End Fuel Poverty Coalition is a broad coalition of anti-poverty, environmental, health, trade union and consumer organisations. The Coalition has called on…

Kate’s blog: We need to plant millions more trees to protect our planet from climate disaster

As a break from Brexit, this week I’ve spent a fair bit of my time concentrating on trees! Climate campaigners Extinction Rebellion have been blockading roads around Westminster all week to highlight the climate emergency to MPs. While I appreciate their tactics are contentious, they’ve been very careful not to…

Kate takes action on climate change

Kate took the issue of climate change straight to the heart of government, as she wrote to the Prime Minister asking for his support and commitment to grow the Northern Forest. This week Kate also collected an oak tree from the XR Global Rebellion, outside parliament, to plant in her…

Kate Green MP and the BHF commit to cleaning up the nation’s air

Kate met with the British Heart Foundation (BHF) at Labour Party Conference to discuss the need for urgent action to clean up the nation’s air. Every year in the UK, air pollution is responsible for 11,000 heart and circulatory deaths. Fine particles, known as PM2.5, are so small that we…