UK political parties fall short of The Green Standard

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News from the RSPB site

For the first time, the UK's nine leading environmental organisations, representing over five million supporters, have published a definitive assessment of the three main political parties' green credentials.

With the start of the party conference season just days away, the report, How green are our parties? The Green Standard report, finds that none of the parties have implemented policy commitments and action on the scale required to meet the range and urgency of the environmental threats we face.

The assessment is based on The Green Standard, a set of six robust environmental leadership tests developed by the NGOs in February. The report uses a 'traffic light system':

* Green to indicate support for both ambition and commitments
* Amber to indicate a mixed picture in relation to ambition and commitments
* Red to indicate where we are concerned by both the effect of a party's approach and a lack of positive commitments.

With no 'green lights', the gap between Conservative aspirations on the environment and their limited policy commitments is stark. The Labour government, despite displaying international leadership on climate change, is failing on its renewables and emissions targets and has failed to commit to implementing a Marine Bill and receives just one green light.

'The Liberal Democrats get three green lights by offering the strongest set of policies on climate change, green taxation and green living. All three parties, however, have failed to give sufficient attention to policies that will protect and enhance our countryside and wildlife.

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[Chocky]

Thanks for that info' Robert