“City financiers may not be tree-huggers, but uncertainty and risk are expensive.” Will Dunn on why banks hate Rishi Sunak’s U-turn on net zero. newstatesman.com/business/2023/…

LCEF will be growing in 2024! We're looking for a programme manager for nature and land-use: w4mpjobs.org/JobDetails.asp… And a programme officer leading on candidate and MP engagement: w4mpjobs.org/JobDetails.asp… Come and join our small yet dynamic team.

Fantastic to see Starmer give clear and robust vocal support to the Green Prosperity Plan, borrowing to invest to improve energy independence and lower energy bills. Bring it on, indeed! youtu.be/jmMqGx_4auo?si…

Labour mulls plan for “community right to buy” scheme to boost local buyouts of pubs, shops and other community sites in England theguardian.com/society/2024/j…

🚨Today we release a new essay collection, ‘Climate, Justice and Jobs: What a Green Prosperity Plan means for the UK’🚨 It explores how Labour’s GPP can create lasting change, featuring a host of brilliant voices from across the labour movement. lcef.co.uk/publications/p… 🧵

🛣️Member of the House of Lords barbara young makes the case for bold political leadership as the path to unlocking public ambition on climate and nature.

Great afternoon in Wellingborough for @Gvkitchen - clear this is an area where people feel abandoned by the Tories and are ready for change with Gen. Only 6 days till polls close - get yourself there! Details here: events.labour.org.uk/results?distan….

As the dust settles on the count for London Mayor, much of the political commentary and media coverage we have seen since Uxbridge - that British people want to ditch climate and air quality ambition - has been proven totally out of touch by an 11% majority for Sadiq Khan 🧵

Great thread from our Nature and Land-Use programme manager on yesterday’s big nature announcement from The Labour Party and Steve Reed 👇

From my poll of 16,677 people who voted in the general election: 22% decided on polling day or the day they filled in their postal vote On-the-day deciders split evenly between Lab and Con LordAshcroftPolls.com

Ed Miliband tells Megan Corton Scott that addressing climate change is central to Keir Starmer’s government, at our conference Green Renewal: What next for Labour in Government #GreenRenewal

Really enjoyed speaking at the Labour Climate and Environment Forum #GreenRenewal Summit today about our busy first few weeks in government: 🤝 Signed GB Energy's first partnership with The Crown Estate 🏗️ Lifted the onshore wind ban 🔆 Consented 1.3GW of solar energy 🎛️ Set up Mission Control in DESNZ

BREAKING: The UK gov't has rightly recognised that approving the Rosebank oil field without taking into account the full extent of its climate impacts was unlawful. It has conceded that argument in our & Greenpeace's legal challenge against the field. So what does that mean? 🧵

Bookmark this if you are heading to Liverpool for #Lab24!

Updated conference programme from LCEF!

Our MRP found there was not a single constituency in Britain where concern about climate change falls below 50% of the electorate. Voters across the political spectrum expected politicians to take action to tackle it.

Odd to use US poll as indication of popularity of green investment in UK rather than the general election four months ago. Labour has a 156 majority based on clear manifesto commitments of clean power and investment for growth. 🧵

NEW: Who are the voters Labour risks losing to Reform? How might Labour unite them with the rest of its election winning coalition? How might Reform win them over? Big new research by Persuasion UK out on 'Reform curious Labour' as featured by Miranda Green in today's FT 🧵👇

🌹 With Labour seeking to look tough on immigration, Morgan Jones warns of the dangers of learning the wrong lessons from election defeats labourlist.org/2025/04/local-…

We are living through an extraordinary moment – one that future generations will look back on as either the moment we transformed our energy system, or chose not to. Our new report with Labour Climate and Environment Forum says it clearly: now is the time for community power, in every sense of the word.