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Investigation shows ageing assets and lack of funding could mean entire towns and villages vulnerable to flooding Lives may be at risk if ministers proceed with cuts to England’s languishing canal network, experts have said. The climate crisis and a lack of funding means ageing assets could flood entire towns and villages, an investigation for the parliamentary magazine the House has found. Continue reading...

Labour has allowed climate action to become synonymous with hardship. Farage’s Reform is exploiting that – but we offer real solutions Carla Denyer is co-leader of the Green party of England and Wales and MP for Bristol Central When I announced recently that I won’t be standing in this summer’s elections for the Green party’s leadership, many people wanted to know why. My answer is that I’ve always been guided by the question: “How can I make the biggest positive impact?”. I’m so proud of what Adrian Ramsay and I have accomplished over the past three and a half years: taking our party from one MP to four, from 450 councillors to more than 850, and growing and diversifying our membership. Having achieved what I set out to do, I’ve decided that for the next few years, I’ll pour all my skills, passion and energy into being the best MP I can be for my constituents in Bristol Central, using my seat in parliament to fight for the changes this country needs. Since becoming an MP in July last year, I have found my ikigai – a Japanese concept describing the intersection of work that you love, you’re good at, and is what the world needs. There’s plenty I don’t love about how parliament works, but I feel incredibly motivated to be a voice asking “why can’t it be better?”, and a pair of hands working with others to try to build a better country. I joined the Green party because I wanted to change the country for the better, and I believed the best way to do that was by getting more Greens elected. In 2015 I was persuaded to stand for election myself – first as a councillor, then as an MP and then, at the insistence of friends and party colleagues, as co-leader of the Greens in 2021. Carla Denyer is co-leader of the Green party of England and Wales and MP for Bristol Central Continue reading...

‘Perfect’ weather conditions produce berries that growers say are between 10% and 20% bigger than usual The UK’s sunny spring weather has provided “perfect” conditions to produce strawberries so big you “cannot fit them in your mouth”, UK growers have said. With nearly 20 years’ experience, Bartosz Pinkosz, the operations director at the Summer Berry Company, has “never seen anything like it”. The strawberries being harvested this month by the leading grower are whoppers thanks to the combination of lots of sunshine and cool nights. Continue reading...

Downsizing at Climeworks comes amid economic uncertainty and ‘reduced momentum’ for climate tech A Swiss startup that has led the way in sucking carbon out of the air has announced plans to cut its workforce by more than 10% amid economic uncertainty and “reduced momentum” for climate tech. The downsizing at Climeworks, the company that built the world’s first direct air capture facilities, comes one week after journalists in Iceland revealed its two flagship plants have captured far less carbon than their advertised capacity. A spokesperson said the timing of the redundancies was unrelated. Continue reading...