1️⃣step down, 5️⃣ to go in the Circular Economy Growth Plan:

Cut the cost of living
Build up skills
Deliver roadmaps for key sectors
Get investment into circular innovation
Set the UK on a path to “one-planet” resource use

@adrianramsay.bsky.social @afzalkhanmcr.bsky.social @umakumaran.bsky.social

Minister @chrismcdonaldmp.bsky.social has taken a major step forward with Vision 2035, recognising that minerals in the UK’s products and infrastructure are as important as those still in the ground.

The Strategy aims for 20% of total annual UK demand to be met through recycling by 2035.

Abtisam Mohamed MP highlighted the need for the UK to move more quickly away from reliance on oil and gas ⛽- especially as the four biggest banks continue to finance major polluters and the drilling licence for Rosebank has still not been rejected

@alexsobel.co.uk asked what more the UK Government can do to ensure that London and the UK’s global finance drives natural capital investment worldwide 🌍- including through Article 6, the mechanism enabling international carbon markets and cooperation on emissions reductions ♻️

Thank you to our speakers @umakumaran.bsky.social, Shazia Arshad from Islamic Relief, Thomas Pickford from @nature.org, Sofia Ali from Green Deen Tribe - and thanks to @afzalkhanmcr.bsky.social for chairing the discussion!

Thanks to @eciu.net and @wellcometrust.bsky.social for organising, and also to our fellow co-hosts @lcefuk.bsky.social, Conservative Environment Network, @ldnc-uk.bsky.social, @climateappg.bsky.social and @peersfortheplanet.bsky.social

"We need to show rather than tell that clean energy and climate action will make lives better"

Climate Minister @katiewhitemp.bsky.social promotes optimism ahead of COP30

She says the UK's NDC is "incredibly ambitious" and notes further announcements are to come

"Doing it together is what it is all about"

Former CCC Chair and Environment Minister Lord Deben tells us we must bring everyone along with environmental action and remember our responsibility to the rest of the world

The Circular Economy Strategy must ensure local leaders, small businesses and community champions are part of the plan

Read our asks for the strategy 👇
environmentappg.co.uk/publications...

@carladenyer.bsky.social asks the government what further plans they have to ban the practice of bottom trawling, which destroys vital habitats on the seabed

Sadly, the deep ocean and it's inhabitants are no longer out of reach for human activity. @barrygardiner.bsky.social speaks about the destruction that industrial fishing fleets cause on deep sea species

Our vice chair @werahobhouse.org.uk warned about the severe threat that plastic pollution poses to marine species, with over 130 trillion pieces of plastic reported in our oceans in 2023

Baroness Boycott raised concerns about microplastics, which are not only harming human health but are also projected to cut crop yields by up to 25% in the next decade

Lord Krebs drew attention to the worrying rise in single-use plastics, which increased 7% in the past year alone