MEP Launches Bid For An EU Ban On Old-Fashioned Lightbulbs
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 | Press Release
13 March 2007 - Green MEP Caroline Lucas has launched a parliamentary bid to ban old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs from [...]
Archive for 2007
Euro-MPs Debate Legality Of Trident Renewal, As Commission Warns Of Proliferation Threat
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 | Press Release
13 March 2007 - Euro-MPs in Strasbourg are to vote on a resolution condemning any UK decision to upgrade its [...]
Green MEP’s Solution To Coastal Decline And Climate Change: Renewable Energy And Tourism
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 | Press Release
13 March 2007 - Green MEP Caroline Lucas today called on the Government to support both domestic tourism and marine [...]
Ban On Old-Fashioned Lightbulbs Could Save 3m Tonnes Of CO2 In The SE
Monday, March 12th, 2007 | Press Release
12 March 2007 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has launched a bid to ban old-fashioned light bulbs by 2010 [...]
EU Climate Summit : Emissions Targets Are ‘Woefully Inadequate’, Says MEP
Friday, March 9th, 2007 | Press Release
9 March 2007 - Today’s deal to cut the EU’s CO2 emissions by 20 per cent by 2020 is woefully [...]
An Alternative Berlin Declaration
Friday, March 9th, 2007 | Report
Where next for the EU at 50?
An alternative Berlin Declaration.
EU Must Ignore ‘Low Carbon’ Red Herring And Reject Nuclear Power In Energy Targets, Says Green Euro-MP
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007 | Press Release
7 March 2007 - An agreement to boost renewable energy across the EU could allow taxpayers’ cash to subsidise the [...]
Lucas Launches Bid To Protect Access to Medicines for World’s Poorest
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007 | Press Release
7 March 2007 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has launched a bid to defend access to affordable generic life-saving [...]
Green MEP Demands Inquiry Into Incinerator Plan At Newhaven
Monday, March 5th, 2007 | Press Release
5 March 2007 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has written to Government Office of the South East demanding a [...]
MEP Condemns Plan To Dump Ash At Beauty Spot
Thursday, March 1st, 2007 | Press Release
1 March 2007 - Oxfordshire’s Green Euro-MP is to visit a Didcot beauty spot threatened by plans to dump hundreds [...]
Lucas Calls For Radical Overhaul Of EU Climate Change Policy After MPs Slate Emissions Trading Scheme
Thursday, March 1st, 2007 | Press Release
1 March 2007 - Green MEP Caroline Lucas has called for a radical overhaul of the EU’s climate change policy [...]
Opinion - Cat and Dog Fur Trade
Sunday, February 25th, 2007 | In the Parliament
Caroline’s response on behalf of the International Trade Committee to Commission proposals to ban the trade in cat and dog [...]
(Listen & Watch) No Trident and Troops Out of Iraq Rally
Saturday, February 24th, 2007 | Speech
Trafalgar Square, February 2007
EU Delay On Seal Fur Ban Will Mean 200,000 Deaths, Says MEP
Monday, February 19th, 2007 | Press Release
19 February 2007 - Delays to a ban on the import of seal fur will mean over 200,000 seals are [...]
EU To Probe UK Handling Of Bird Flu Outbreak
Monday, February 19th, 2007 | Press Release
19 February 2007 - The EU today faces calls to investigate the Government’s decision to allow poultry processing to [...]
MEPs Vote For Tougher Climate Emissions Limits, As Lucas Warns Commission Over Double Standards
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 | Press Release
14 February 2007 - Euro-MPs in Strasbourg have voted to toughen EU climate change targets today, the eve of the [...]
MEPs Reject Green ‘Rebranding’ Of Incineration
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 | Press Release
13 February 2007 - Euro-MPs in Strasbourg today roundly rejected proposals to ‘re-brand’ waste incineration as an environmentally-friendly alternative to [...]
Resolution - Iraq
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 | In the Parliament
Parliamentary resolution debated 13th February 2007
The UN Embargo Against Iraq 2000
The UN Embargo Against Iraq 2000
Green MEP Demands Changes To EU Trade Rules To Prevent Bird Flu
Monday, February 12th, 2007 | Press Release
12 February 2007 - Britain must halt all imports and exports of poultry products, live birds and hatching eggs to [...]
EU Must Clarify Farming Rules To Stop Spread Of Bird Flu
Saturday, February 10th, 2007 | Press Release
10 February 2007 - EU laws on keeping factory farming waste out of the human food chain must be clarified [...]
Green MEP Slates EU Failure To Cut Car Emissions, As Wrangle Reveals Chaos At Heart Of Climate Policy
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 | Press Release
6 February 2007 - Failure to adopt tough targets forcing EU car-makers to cut greenhouse gas emissions produced by their [...]
MEP Attacks ‘Ignorance’ Of DEFRA Over Bird Flu Link
Monday, February 5th, 2007 | Press Release
5 February 2007 - Green Party MEP Caroline Lucas has attacked DEFRA minister Ben Bradshaw’s ‘incredible ignorance’ over the causes [...]
Kent Nature Sites Threatened By Over-Development, Warns MEP
Monday, February 5th, 2007 | Press Release
5 February 2007 - A Euro-MP has warned that the regional assembly’s plans to build thousands of homes in Kent [...]
Green MEP Lucas Demands End To ‘Cruel And Unnecessary’ Animal Experiments
Friday, February 2nd, 2007 | Press Release
12 February 2007 - Caroline Lucas has joined animal protection groups across Europe in calling on the EU to replace [...]
Written Declaration - Europe’s Environmental Industries
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 | In the Parliament
Caroline’s written declaration calling for more support to be given to Europe’s environmental industries 2007
This was supported by 57 other [...]
Correspondence about Transport Fuels
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 | Correspondence
Letter to the European Commission about biofuels from Latin America and burning peat 2007
Letter to the European Commission about the [...]
‘Supermarkets Inherently Unsustainable’ Says MEP, After Competition Commission Inquiry Misses Key Issues
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 | Press Release
23 January 2007 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has hit out at supermarkets’ negative impact on local economies and [...]
Food Shortages Loom Unless We Make Organic Shift, Says MEP Ahead Of Conference
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 | Press Release
23 January 2007 - Dwindling oil stocks and EU trade and energy policies threaten food price hikes – and unless [...]
MEP’s Warning: East Hants Nature Sites Face Over-Development Threat
Monday, January 22nd, 2007 | Press Release
22 January 2007 - South-East England’s Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has warned that the regional assembly’s development plan could [...]
MEP Appeals For EU Cash To Save Zoo Animals
Friday, January 19th, 2007 | Press Release
19 January 2007 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has demanded the EU funds the rescue of hundreds of Bulgarian [...]
Green MEP Demands EU Action On Arms Exports
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 | Press Release
18 January 2007 - Delays in implementing new EU rules on arms sales are costing lives in conflict zones around [...]
Government Must Block New Isle Of Wight Road, Says Green MEP
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 | Press Release
18 January 2007 - Green MEP Caroline Lucas has called on the Government to block plans to replace a road [...]
Correspondence about Agrofuels
Monday, January 8th, 2007 | Correspondence
Letter to the European Commission about agrofuels in Latin America and burning peat 2007
Response
Letter to the European Commission about the [...]
Leading MEP In Police Custody After Arrest At Anti-Nuclear Demo
Monday, January 8th, 2007 | Press Release
8 January 2007 - Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas is in police custody today after she was arrested this morning [...]
IT Firms ‘Unprepared’ For Changes To Recycling Law Thanks to Government Failure, Say Greens
Thursday, January 4th, 2007 | Press Release
4 January 2007 - Green Euro-MP Caroline Lucas has called on the Government to improve information and training about recycling [...]
Don’t Attack Iran - Stop the War Assembly, March 2007
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007 | Speech
1. Introduction
The so-called Global War on Terror has been a spectacular failure – not just the deepening chaos in Iraq, [...]
