All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Environment

Cross party MPs + peers backing ambition on the environment | Chair: @PutneyFleur | Secretariat: @GreenAllianceUK | 📧 [email protected]

[Fleur Anderson MP @PutneyFleur]

🌳 Trees, trees, trees!

⏱️ Just had 2 minutes in the debate on nation preparedness for emergencies because so many MPs also wanted to speak.

💦 🔥 Here’s my speech about the @EnvironmentAPPG enquiry into resilience to extreme weather events.

@WoodlandTrust @Natures_Voice

[All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Environment @EnvironmentAPPG]

🌲Kew warns climate change is killing trees, echoing what we heard in our adaptation inquiry. As the heatwave shows, trees are vital infrastructure for cooling, so adapting nature to extreme weather is essential.🌲
https://t.co/kV55uNMMrB

[All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Environment @EnvironmentAPPG]

@theCCCuk @PutneyFleur "Without strong preventive action, a hotter Britain will also be a far more unequal country" writes @fionaharvey
https://t.co/bTyuN4RF7e

[All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Environment @EnvironmentAPPG]

Today @theCCCuk has warned that the UK is "built for a climate that no longer exists". Our chair @PutneyFleur responds here:

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@theCCCuk @PutneyFleur The CCC finds that by 2050, 92% of homes are likely to overheat and water supply shortfalls could exceed five billion litres per day:

https://t.co/zxJEg56zfq

[All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Environment @EnvironmentAPPG]

Our second panel Gareth Morgan of @SoilAssociation , Martin Lines of @NFFNUK and Dmitry Feoktistov of @NFUPolitical detailed how farm livelihoods are at risk. They called for a focus on soil health, crop diversity, water management and supply chain coordination

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On Monday, the Environment APPG held the second session of our inquiry: “Is the UK prepared? Resilience in floods, fires and food as climate impacts rise” with @PutneyFleur and Lord Krebs. 🧑‍🌾⛈️

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We heard from Emily Hunter of @WoodlandTrust Kevin Martin of Kew Gardens and Bethany Chamberlain of @Natures_Voice on the risks to habitats like temperate rainforests, coastal saltmarshes and peatlands. They emphasised the need for nature-based solutions to mitigate climate risks

[All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Environment @EnvironmentAPPG]

@baroness_brown asks the Minister to review the definition of ‘natural polymer’ used in plastic food packaging.
The use of natural polymers beyond cellulose could make packaging fully recyclable. ♻️🗑️

[All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Environment @EnvironmentAPPG]

On Wednesday’s Oral Questions on Plastic Pollution @RosieBoycott highlights that only 9% of plastic packaging is recycled. ♻️
A strong Extended Produced Responsibility could get companies to change their plastic packaging to make it more suitable to recycle.

[Fleur Anderson MP @PutneyFleur]

I’m holding an enquiry with the Environment APPG into the impact of climate change on us in the UK - flooding, fires and food.

Please do submit evidence if you are personally affected or have professional views.

[Baroness Sugg @liz_sugg]

Bottom trawling in our Marine Protected Areas threatens the sustainability and prosperity of our fisheries and coastal communities.

Yesterday in @UKHouseofLords I asked the Government when they would act 👇

@OceanaUK @WildlifeTrusts

[All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Environment @EnvironmentAPPG]

@liz_sugg Baroness Sheehan asked how progress on 30x30 nature recovery targets is measured 🌍
The Minister acknowledged the challenges of protecting our seas and noted that plans to extend the ban on bottom trawling gear to 41 MPAs would be a key step towards meeting 30x30 targets

[All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Environment @EnvironmentAPPG]

Bottom trawling causes irreversible damage to our oceans 🌊
@liz_sugg highlights how heavy nets used by large fishing corporations devastate marine life and threaten coastal livelihoods 🐟
Banning this gear in 41 more MPAs would be a major step forward

[All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Environment @EnvironmentAPPG]

@liz_sugg As Baroness Grender notes, 90% of UK MPAs are still exposed to bottom trawling - amounting to 20,000 hours of trawling last year alone 🐠

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The final panel of Sarah Mukherjee of @ISEPglobal, Elisabeth Sullivan of @techUK and David Steen of @UKGBC urged the government to treat climate risks as cascading and interdependent rather than separate, and to work with nature not against it.

[All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Environment @EnvironmentAPPG]

On Monday, the Environment APPG held the first session of our inquiry: “Is the UK prepared? Resilience in floods, fires and food” with @PutneyFleur, @AdrianRamsay, @Wera_Hobhouse, Baroness Willis and Lord Harlech

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Our second panel of Megan Dunford of @Zurich, Katherine Waters of @wsp and Lucas Everitt of @atkinsrealis detailed how flooding is the most significant climate risk the UK faces, and how gaps in the planning system are increasing the number of homes at risk.

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We heard from Heather Shepherd and Louis Ramirez of Flooded People on the immense damage repeat flooding inflicts on communities. They emphasised the need for better recovery plans and an honest debate on what policy can achieve

[All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Environment @EnvironmentAPPG]

🌊 Bottom trawling is still happening inside UK Marine Protected Areas

40% of England’s seas are MPAs, yet over 1.3m tonnes of fish were caught in them over just four years

Without proper protection, MPAs risk becoming little more than lines on a map 🐟
https://t.co/C1csEJwPl2