
Harry Greenfield
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Work on environmental policy, currently @cisl_cambridge and
@ClimateCLG. Interest in nature, farming, food and land use.
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🆕 Launched today: The #CLGEurope's Policy Briefing - Raising European Climate Ambition for 2040: A CLG Europe position paper. Read more: bit.ly/3qZfsTv #EU2040 🏷️ Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership Corporate Leaders Groups Sanna Markkanen Anum romain pardo Ursula Woodburn Harry Greenfield


📢 Following recent concerns that PM Rishi Sunak UK Prime Minister intends to weaken UK’s climate policies, CLG UK and many of our members joined a range of businesses to demonstrate the broad commitment to the UK’s #netzero goal and support for policies needed to deliver this.

Over 4️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ businesses and NGOs including UKSIF, Nestlé, IKEA, Aviva UK and E.ON Energy UK have written to Rishi Sunak to call for #CredibleClimateLeadership and express concern at plans to water down the UK's #NetZero policies. Read the letter here 👇 e3g.org/news/business-…

Several reports today dismiss greenbelt as ‘scrubland’, the implication being that development on such land is better than what’s there now. Truth is that expanding scrub is one of the quickest ways we can make progress for Nature recovery. Quite worrying dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

A missed opportunity for government to show the climate leadership business is calling for. 🗣️The government should be developing "actions to support the green industries that will underpin the economy of the 21st century." #CLGUK Director Beverley Cornaby reacts to the #KingsSpeech.

50 business leaders wrote to HM Treasury Chancellor urging him to use the #AutumnStatement to provide a coherent and proportionate intervention in the race to #netzero. But it's hard to see it as anything other than "another missed opportunity" argues #CLGUK Director Beverley Cornaby.

🍎 Sustain's Local Food Retail Coordinator, Rachel Jones, responds to Hannah Ritchie's statements about local food on Channel 4 News #localfood buff.ly/49mZ3tj


🚨.Climate Change Committee's assessment of the Government's Third National Adaptation Programme is that it falls far short of what is required. There is currently a window to build more effective climate #resilience in the UK. Read more➡️ theccc.org.uk/2024/03/13/pla… Harry Greenfield

I've written for Farmers Guardian on the current pressures facing farmers and how government and retailers can better support them. "Farmers can't be expected to tackle the climate and nature crisis on their own" farmersguardian.com/4185843/

Headline writers at the The Times and The Sunday Times seem determined to pin all the country’s food supply problems on green farming schemes. The problem for them is that it just doesn’t stack up A quick thread on why...🧵 Adam Vaughan Will Humphries thetimes.co.uk/article/farmer…






