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The Green Party is the only party that activity, wildlife and nature across
puts the environment at the heart of all this country is in decline. The 2016
our policies - because, quite simply, State of Nature report reported that
a prosperous, thriving future will be almost 60% of species in the UK are in
green - or not at all. long-term decline, while 15% are at
risk of disappearing from our shores
Our economic prosperity depends on altogether.
the natural world. It is the ultimate
source of everything we make and use This national picture is only a drop in
- from food and materials, to the air the ocean of a global ecological crisis:
we breathe. Even the digital economy humans are pushing at the boundaries
depends on rare earth metals and huge of our planet. With 2016 the hottest
amounts of energy. And we rely on year on record, and a climate-denier
delicate ecological systems to sustain in the White House, the need for bold
life on earth - from bees pollinating and dynamic action on climate change
our crops to trees absorbing carbon has never been more urgent. The UK
dioxide. Building a successful economy must lead the world in building a green
is not at odds with protecting our economy and investing in a viable
environment: it is impossible without future - one that respects and nurtures
it. Right now, we are destroying the the natural systems on which we
foundations of our economy faster depend.
than they can be regenerated: we are
eroding the ground were standing on.
Guarantee strong protections The UK is facing a public Even if we cut global emissions to zero
for our natural environment health emergency over today, the effects of climate change
and oceans, especially for the 40,000 early deaths are will be felt for generations. We would
Green Belt, National Parks, SSSIs attributable to air pollution invest in a climate-proof future for
and Areas of Outstanding Natural every year. We would example, by building flood defences,
Beauty and including a long- levy a one-off fine on car investing in natural flood management,
term 25 year target for biodiversity, manufacturers who cheated including restoring uplands, to make
water and air quality. every community safe.
environment manifesto / page 2 environment manifesto / page 3
TAKE BACK CONTROL OF OUR ENERGY
SYSTEm
Our energy system is broken and Clean, Renewable Energy solar-photovoltaics; scaling up A Fair and Just Energy System
is not delivering what households investment in offshore wind and
and businesses need. Captured by The Green Party will breathe life marine renewables; significant End the monopoly of the Big Six
corporate profit, ripping us off, and back into the Climate Change Act investment in vehicle electrification by building democratic, locally
fuelled by dirty energy that belongs by investing in an energy system fit and charging infrastructure; and a owned alternatives - reaching at
in the past, it is failing us both as for the 21st century. We will ensure comprehensive plan to decarbonise least 42 gigawatts by 2025. We
customers and as citizens. We need that all new investment in energy is heat, including pilot residential and will require grid operators to give
to harness the dramatically falling directed towards clean, renewable commercial projects. priority access to community
costs of renewable energy and seize energy, and a smarter, networked grid, energy projects, and pioneer a
the opportunity to both tackle climate with battery-storage, demand-side Create a new Green Investment new Community Energy Tool Kit
change and take back control of measures, and interconnection. This and Innovation Centre with to empower local communities
our energy system. The Green Party would be detailed in a comprehensive borrowing powers to help create to create energy and municipal
would end the monopoly of the Big Clean Energy Plan, and would include: and finance the transition to a heating projects in every town
Six, and ensure that no-one is forced zero-carbon economy. This would and city.
to live in fuel poverty - whilst also Keep fossil fuels where they replace the UK Green Investment
democratising the way energy assets belong: in the ground. We will Bank a victim of reckless Introduce progressive energy
are funded. introduce a ban on fracking, Conservative ideology and create tariffs so that small consumers
phase-out the 6bn-a-year fossil a government owned hub for pay less per unit than large ones,
Global Climate Cooperation fuel subsidies, bring forward the innovation and investment in our special needs are recognised,
coal phase-out date to 2023 (at low-carbon economy. people are not cut off when they
We will stand alongside those countries the latest), divest public funds cant afford to pay, and nobody
across the world fighting for climate from the fossil fuel industry, and End the reckless gamble with is forced to have pre-payment
justice, and push for concerted global ensure a just transition for those nuclear power we will cancel meters.
action to limit warming to 1.5 degrees. communities dependent on fossil the contracts for Hinkley Point C
We would clearly outline how the fuel jobs. (saving 37bn), and scrap plans Embark upon a national
UK would meet our domestic and for all new nuclear power stations, programme of insulation and
international obligations ending the End the effective ban instead investing in renewable retrofitting to make every home
current policy uncertainty - whilst on-onshore wind the cheapest energy, a flexible grid, and warm bringing two million people
making climate change a major foreign form of new electricity generation interconnection to Europe. out of fuel poverty, insulating
policy priority. and introducing new support for nine million homes, and creating
onshore wind and hundreds of thousands of jobs
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