COP26 Durham Green Party Rallies
10th November 2021 / 16th October 2024 by richardsimpson
Durham came together on Saturday 6th November to add its voice to calls for world leaders at the climate summit in Glasgow to take the actions needed to hold the rise in global temperatures to 1.5C. Hundreds gathered in Market Place for a festival of drumming, dancing, singing, and speeches to make the point to […]
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5th November 2021 / 16th October 2024 by richardsimpson
This is a shorter version of an article by our own Jonathan Elmer, consultant ecologist and the Green Party’s national spokesman for the natural world, recently published in The Ecologist. The regeneration of nature isn’t happening, either in the UK or around the world. We need to give nature inalienable rights. Since 1970 there has […]
Durham Green Party Press release
31st October 2021 / 16th October 2024 by richardsimpson
County Durham’s three Conservative MPs have voted down an amendment to the Environment Bill which would have made it illegal for water companies to discharge raw sewage into our rivers and coastal waters. Bishop Auckland MP Dehenna Davison, North West Durham MP Richard Holden, and Sedgefield MP Paul Howell, all voted with the Government to […]
Achievements
22nd October 2021 / 16th October 2024 by richardsimpson
Shincliffe Parish Council has committed to doing its bit to reach “net zero” emissions. Members have unanimously agreed to declare a climate and ecological emergency, and to call for a joint local & national government Task Force to plan action to reach ‘net zero’ emissions. Green councillor Stephen Ashfield said: “Many local authorities are playing […]
