Plenary - Chemicals
Saturday, December 30th, 2006 | Speech
Developing stringent guidelines to prevent the release and build up of toxic chemicals into the environment has been a priority [...]
Archive for 2006
EU Aviation Plan ‘A Hugely Wasted Opportunity’, Says Green MEP
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 | Press Release
20 December 2006 - Proposals presented by the European Commission today to include CO2 emissions from aviation in the EU’s [...]
Dwindling Oil Supplies Threaten Global Food Crisis, Says Euro-MP
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006 | Press Release
19 December 2006 - Dwindling oil stocks and EU trade and energy policies threaten food price hikes – and could [...]
Fuelling A Food Crisis
Friday, December 8th, 2006 | Report
An analysis of the true energy costs of our food production. By Caroline Lucas, Andy Jones and Colin Hines
Fuelling a [...]
Environmental Crisis Too Urgent For ‘Gesture Politics’, Says Green MEP After Brown’s ‘Greenwash’ Budget
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006 | Press Release
6 December 2006 - Proposed ‘green’ taxation measures in Gordon Brown’s last pre-Budget report are an attempt to ‘greenwash’ Government [...]
Green Taxes On Flights Not Enough, Says Euro-MP
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 | Press Release
5 December 2006 - The European Parliament’s spokesperson on aviation and climate change has warned that doubling Air Passenger Duty [...]
Replacing Trident Will Break Law, Threaten Security And Cost Billions, Warns MEP
Monday, December 4th, 2006 | Press Release
4 December 2006 - Plans to replace Trident with a ‘scaled down’ nuclear arsenal will still place the UK in [...]
Written Questions - Timber and Logging
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006 | In the Parliament
Timber Procurement 2004
Response
Illegal Logging In Russia 2006
Response
Forest Trade Liberalisation 2006
Response
New EU Chemical Safety Rules Create ‘Secret’ Agency And Threaten Legitimacy Of The EU, Says Euro-MP
Friday, December 1st, 2006 | Press Release
1 December 2006 - A last-ditch agreement between MEPs, EU member states and the European Commission has ripped the heart [...]
EU Leaders Must Reject German Bid To Relaunch Constitution, Warns Green Euro-MP Lucas
Thursday, November 30th, 2006 | Press Release
30 November 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has warned EU leaders to reject German plans to relaunch the [...]
Greens Launch EU Bid To ‘Free West Papua’
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 | Press Release
29 November 2006 - Euro-MPs are to call for the EU to intervene in forcing Indonesia to respect human rights [...]
EU Chemical Safety Rules In Chaos After UK Scuppers Deal On ‘REACH’ Regulations
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 | Press Release
28 November 2006 - New rules which could have banned the use of the most toxic synthetic chemicals look set [...]
Lucas Calls for Return Of Troops From Iraq At Protest Rally Outside RAF Base
Saturday, November 25th, 2006 | Press Release
25 November 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas added to the pressure on the Government over Iraq on Saturday when [...]
Euro-MP Calls On EU To Suspend Israel Trade Deal At Portsmouth Palestine Meeting
Saturday, November 25th, 2006 | Press Release
25 November 2006 - The EU has a key role to play in bringing peace to the Middle East and [...]
Green Euro-MP Visits Hampshire Organic Farm
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 | Press Release
15 November 2006 - Hampshire’s Green Party MEP Caroline Lucas heard about the challenges of organic growing first hand this [...]
MEPs Back Green Calls For New EU Air Traffic Control System To Combat Climate Change
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 | Press Release
14 November 2006 - Euro-MPs in Strasbourg have adopted proposals for a new EU Air Traffic Control system to combat [...]
Lucas Joins Call For Global Decriminalisation Of Homosexuality
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 | Press Release
14 November 2006 - Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has added her name to calls for the UN to outlaw anti-gay laws [...]
MEP Condemns Blair’s ‘Hot Air’ On Climate Change As EU Gears Up To Take UK To Court
Monday, November 13th, 2006 | Press Release
13 November 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has condemned Tony Blair’s ‘hot air’ on climate change after the [...]
Green MEPs Demand UN Halts Iran’s ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ Executions
Monday, November 13th, 2006 | Press Release
13 November 2006 - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan should insist Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad halts the executions of ten [...]
MEP Warns: New Town Will Cause Hampshire Water Shortages
Thursday, November 9th, 2006 | Press Release
9 November 2006 - Green Party MEP Caroline Lucas will tell people protesting against excessive development in south Hampshire that [...]
Southampton Airport Expansion Plans Will ‘Hit Community Hard’, Warns Green Euro-MP
Thursday, November 9th, 2006 | Press Release
9 November 2006 - More than 1,500 homes will be blighted by aircraft noise if Southampton Airport is allowed to [...]
MEP Demands EU Probe Into Israel’s Use Of New Uranium Weapons In Lebanon
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 | Press Release
8 November 2006 - EU leaders face calls today to investigate allegations that Israel unlawfully used experimental uranium-based weapons on [...]
Euro-MP Intervenes In Farnborough Flights Row
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006 | Press Release
7 November 2006 - Hampshire’s Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has called on government planners to reject a bid to [...]
UN Climate Talks In Nairobi Must Deliver Tough Treaty, Warns Euro-MP
Monday, November 6th, 2006 | Press Release
6 November 2006 - World leaders meeting to discuss climate change in Nairobi, Kenya, must agree a new UN treaty [...]
Green Party MEP Makes ‘Planet’s Top Environmental Heroes’ List
Monday, November 6th, 2006 | Press Release
6 November 2006 - Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has been named one of the planet’s top environmentalists in a poll carried [...]
‘We Need Action – Not Reports’, MEP Tells London Climate Change Rally
Sunday, November 5th, 2006 | Press Release
5 November 2006 - Failure to act to tackle climate change is costing lives – and threatens the very future [...]
Climate Change Speech at London March
Saturday, November 4th, 2006 | Speech
Climate Change March, Grosvenor Square, London
Poverty, Patents, Poultry: The Global Politics of Avian Flu
Friday, November 3rd, 2006 | Speech
Speech at Pandemic Action, London School of Economics
Euro-MP Will Blame Bird ‘Flu On Factory Farming At LSE Meeting
Friday, November 3rd, 2006 | Press Release
3 November 2006 - Deadly bird ‘flu may be caused by factory farming and the international trade in live poultry [...]
World’s Biggest Cargo Ship Symbolises Economic Globalisation, Says MEP
Friday, November 3rd, 2006 | Press Release
3 November 2006 - The docking of the world’s largest container ship - the Emma Maersk - at Felixtowe, bearing [...]
Congestion, Pollution And Impact Of Climate Change To Worsen In South-East, Report Admits
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 | Press Release
2 November 2006 - Plans for the future of the South-East’s economy launched this week by SEEDA (The South-East England [...]
Buying Fairtrade Saves Lives, Green Euro-MP Will Tell Gosport Meeting
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 | Press Release
2 November 2006 - Green Party MEP Caroline Lucas is to speak at a public meeting organised to explain how [...]
Free Markets ‘Don’t Care About Climate Change’, Green MEP Tells Oxford Union
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006 | Press Release
1 November 2006 - Market forces alone are unable to prevent devastating climate change, Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas will [...]
MEP Calls On Blair To Scrap New Roads And Runways, As New Report Warns Climate Change Could Trigger Global Depression
Monday, October 30th, 2006 | Press Release
30 October 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has called for an ‘urgent’ Government response – including an immediate [...]
Euro-MP: Blair Must Back EU On Climate Change
Monday, October 30th, 2006 | Press Release
30 October 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has accused Tony Blair of double-standards over the UK ’s poor [...]
MEP Calls For End To Costly Travelling Circus After Millionth EU Citizen Signs One Seat Petition
Thursday, October 26th, 2006 | Press Release
26 October 2006 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has called for an end to the ‘travelling circus’ which sees [...]
EU Agreement On Air Quality Compromises On Safety, Warn Greens
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006 | Press Release
24 October 2006 - Environment ministers from across the EU have agreed new air quality rules – but they fall [...]
MEP Demnds UN Acts To End Papua Violence Ahead Of Channel Four Documentary
Friday, October 20th, 2006 | Press Release
20 October 2006 - A Euro-MP has called for Indonesian troops to withdraw from West Papua and the peoples of [...]
Green Euro-MP Condemns ‘Disastrous’ Expansion Plan At Gatwick
Friday, October 20th, 2006 | Press Release
20 October 2006 - The Spanish owners of Gatwick Airport have unveiled plans to double the number of passengers passing [...]
Greens Back Commission Call For Spain To Halt Motorway Plan, As Spain Faces Court Action To Protect Iberian Lynx
Friday, October 20th, 2006 | Press Release
20 October 2006 - Spain has been given a final warning by the European Commission before possible court action over [...]
