The Green Standard: Tests for environmental leadership is a joint initiative by eight of the UK’s leading environmental groups.
Political parties not only need to take action and achieve progress on pressing environmental issues, but they also need to be seen as committed and credible actors. We have come up with six tests that political parties must take to achieve a 'green standard' in environmental leadership.
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Hung Parliament is a historic opportunity for climate
07.05.10
Leading environmental organisations have urged the major parties to keep climate change and environment policies in their sights during negotiations over the make-up of the next Government. The newly elected Parliament is the last one that can take effective action to avoid runaway climate change.
Download the press release here.
Green NGOs assess main political parties' manifestos
17.04.10
In the week that saw each of the major political parties launch their manifestos for the forthcoming General Election, eight of the UK's leading environmental organisations that make up the Green Standard initiative have issued their assessment of the commitments made on climate change and the natural environment.
This assessment provides a summary of the specific commitments in the main manifestos of the parties specified, against the Green Standard’s manifesto priorities that were published in our September 2009 report, Common Cause: the Green Standard manifesto on climate change and the natural environment.
The General Election manifesto assessment can be downloaded here, along with the accompanying press notice.
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