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Protecting our environment

2. Protecting our environment

You can trust the Green Party to put the environment at the heart of everything we do.

Our economic prosperity depends on the health of our environment. It is the ultimate source of everything we make and use - from food and materials, to the air we breathe. The Green Party would set an inspiring vision for the natural world, both on land and at sea, with thriving species, healthy habitats, and ensuring the environment is top of the political agenda.

A thriving environment means a healthy future for you, your children and generations to come.

Our policies:

An Environmental Protection Act to safeguard and restore our environment, protect and enhance biodiversity, promote sustainable food and farming, and ensure animal protection.
A public works programme of insulation to make every home warm and investing in flood defences and natural flood management to make every community safer.
Equality of access to nature and green spaces, to enhance leisure, health and wellbeing.
Active ongoing cooperation with businesses and other countries to limit global temperature increases to well below 2 degrees and aiming for 1.5 degrees.
Replacing fracking, coal power stations, subsidies to fossil fuels and nuclear with the clean green efficient renewable energy of the future, and investing in community owned energy.

Introduce a one-off fine on car manufacturers who cheated the emissions testing regime and create a new Clean Air Act, expanding and funding a mandatory clean air zone network.
Strong protection for the Green Belt, National Parks, SSSIs and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
A wider, more effective network of marine protected areas around our coasts, including fully protected no take zones.
Tough action to reduce plastic and other waste, including the introduction of Deposit Return Schemes, with a zero waste target.

A Green economy that works for everyone

The Green Party believes that our economy should be innovative, collaborative, forward facing and for the benefit of communities and the environment.

Membership of the EU

The Green Party supported the Remain campaign and continue to believe that membership of the EU makes our future more hopeful and secure.

Our NHS and Public Services

We pay for public services, we use them, we own them. It’s time they belonged to all of us.

Education for all

Education transforms lives. The Green Party believes that education is a right, and should therefore be available to people of all ages.

Our Promise to Young People

We want to build a better, more positive future for everyone and in particular for young people. We want that future to be safer, happier, more equal and more secure.

A place to call home

We should all have a safe, affordable, secure and warm place to call home. The Green Party will tackle the causes of the housing crisis: giving renters a fair deal, making social housing widely available and bringing the housing market under control.

A safer world

The Green Party will work for a caring and confident Britain that uses its influence wisely, to build peace and protect the environment, and to offer sanctuary to those at risk.

A citizens' democracy

The Green Party believes that politics should be done by people – not to them.

A People’s Transport System

The Green Party will work to increase public investment in the railways, trams, ferries and buses, as well as to make our streets and roads safer for everyone.