Environment and Health

Caroline Lucas has challenged policymakers to put environmental sustainability at the heart of legislation. Promoting human health and well-being alongside that of the world’s ecosystems is central to her work as an MEP, which has included tackling climate change, reducing exposure to toxic chemicals and presing for a zero waste strategy.

You can read about all aspects of her work below, including press releases, speeches and correspondence.

Image: Caroline protesting about climate change 2005

Press Releases

Green MEP To Share Platform With Political Leaders To Debate Government Role In Fight Against Climate Change - 2.7.2008

UK And EU Must Take A Stand Against GMOs, Urges Green MEP - 19.6.2008

Green Euro-MP Urges Caution On Tory Green Credentials After Euro- Parliament Vote On Electricity Market - 18.6.2008

South East Green Euro-MP Labels EU Vote On Directive A ‘Wasted Opportunity’ - 17.6.2008

Get Real Gordon: The Free Market Won’t Save Us From Dangerous Climate Change, Says Green Euro-MP - 13.6.2008

Transition Towns Are ‘Crucial’ In Era Of Peak Oil And Rising Food Prices, MEP To Tell East Sussex Launch Event - 11.6.2008

South East Euro-MP: SEERA Report ‘Finally Catches Up’ On Green Price Of Economic Growth - 9.6.2008

Green Euro-MP Highlights Crucial Links Between Environment And Mental Health At London Conference - 3.6.2008

South East Green MEP Labels Public Consultation On Southampton Water Fluoridation A ‘Sham’ - 28.5.2008

Green MEP Calls For Public Ownership Options And Community Spirit To Overcome Obstacles In UK’s Wind Energy Market - 22.5.2008

Green MEP Welcomes Bid To Protect Environment Through EU Law - 21.5.2008

South East Euro-MP Slams Local Council Over ‘Green Light’ For South Downs Oil - 15.5.2008

Lucas Turns Up The Heat at Climate Change Conference - Watch The Speech Here - 9.5.2008

Euro Commission Shies Away From Crucial Decisions On GMOs - 7.5.2008

Green Euro-MP Urges Commission To Say No To GMO On Eve Of Crucial Vote - 6.5.2008

South East Green MEP Condemns Shell For ‘Shameful’ Retreat On Windfarm - 1.5.2008

Green MEP Calls For Immediate Suspension Of ‘False Solution’ Biofuel Target Ahead Of RTFO Launch - 14.4.2008

Success For Green MEP As Euro-Parliament Identifies Environmental Causes Of Cancer In New ‘Task Force’ Proposals - 11.4.2008

South East Euro-MP To Champion Transition Towns On Visit To Cirencester And Stroud - 10.4.2008

Green MEP To Meet With EU Commissioner To Crackdown On Illegal Logging And Deforestation - 2.4.2008

British-French Nuclear Plans Lack Sense Of Reality, Warns Green Euro-MP - 27.3.2008

Green MEP Sends Clear Signal To Southampton Health Chiefs Over Fluoride In Drinking Water - 25.3.2008

Green Day Out In Winchester As South East MEP Launches New Green Party - 14.3.2008

Darling Bottles It With A Budget That’s Brown, Not Green - Caroline Lucas MEP - 12.3.2008

Extreme Weather Is ‘A Sign Of Things To Come’ Unless There Is Tougher Action On Climate Change, Warns South East Politician - 10.3.2008

South East MEP ‘Dismayed’ At Government’s Green Light For Kingsnorth - 10.3.2008

South East Green Euro-MP To Talk Climate and Conflict in Haywards Heath - 6.3.2008

‘Common Sense Has Prevailed’, Says Green MEP As Energy Giant Scraps Plans To Dump Ash At Didcot Beauty Spot - 18.2.2008

Cancer ‘Caused By Pollution’, MEP Lucas To Tell Brighton Women - 7.2.2008

Green Euro-MP Urges Energy Giant To Suspend Kingsnorth Plans Ahead Of Demonstration - 24.1.2008

“Good Lives Don’t Have To Cost The Earth”, Says Green MEP In New Book On Happiness And Climate Change - 24.1.2008

Proposed EU Laws On Climate And Energy Set The Bar Too Low, Says Green MEP - 23.1.2008

EU Looks Set To Fail Key Post-Bali Test, Warns Green Euro-MP As Commission Finally Prepares To Unveil Policy Package - 22.1.2008

Newhaven Waste Burner Unlawful, Inquiry Told By Green MEP - 9.1.2008

South East Green MEP Condemns Tory-Led Council For Giving ‘Green Light’ To Plans For Kingsnorth Power Station - 3.1.2008

Caroline Lucas To Address London Climate Change Rally - 1.1.2008

EU Falls At First Climate Hurdle After Bali: Car CO2 Emissions Proposals ‘Not Strong Enough’ - 19.12.2007

South East Euro-MP Condemns Government’s Nuclear Ambitions In Kent - 30.11.2007

Green MEP Triggers EU Investigation Of Councils’ ‘Rescue Package’ - 29.11.2007

Sussex Euro-MP Visits City’s Largest Community Centre To See Environmental Improvements - 27.11.2007

South East Green MEP Votes To Hold Oil Industry To Account For Climate Emissions - 27.11.2007

South East Green MEP Gets Fired Up Over ‘Outrageous’ Plans For Medway Coal Power Station - 22.11.2007

A Gateway To Gloom: South East MEP Throws Green Spotlight On Kent Development - 21.11.2007

Caroline Lucas MEP Comments On Plans For New Nuclear Facility At Dungeness - 7.11.2007

Green Living Needn’t Cost The Earth, MEP Tells Sussex Students - 7.11.2007

Green MEPs Demand Investigation Into WiFi In Schools After Study Links Electro-Magnetic Fields And Cancers - 12.10.2007

MEP Fights Maidstone Moorings Plan With Letter To Government Inspector - 10.9.2007

Letters and Replies

Correspondence about Environmental Protection - 4.6.2008

Correspondence about Greenhouse Gas Emissions - 2.4.2008

Correspondence about Water - 2.4.2008

Planning Objections - Waste and Energy Facilities - 29.2.2008

Correspondence about Healthcare - 6.1.2008

Correspondence about Mobile Phones and Electromagentic Fields - 6.11.2007

In the Parliament

Resolutions - Healthcare - 2.4.2008

Written Questions - Noise - 13.3.2008

Written Questions - Waste - 12.2.2008

Written Declaration - Early Warning Systems 2007 - 30.1.2008

Written Questions - Livestock Emissions - 18.12.2007

Written Declaration - Supermarkets - 27.10.2007

Written Questions - Mobile Phones And Electromagnetic fields - 2.10.2007

Reports

Taking Action on Climate Change - 14.1.2008

Global Warming, Local Warning - 1.11.2007

Articles

Bottled Budget - New Statesman - 13 March 2008 - 13.3.2008

In the wake of Bali, action must speak louder than words - 29 January 2008 - 29.1.2008

Nuclear Fall Out - New Statesman Online - 10 January 2008 - 10.1.2008

BBC Green Room ‘Writers Write Back’ - Caroline responds to reader comments - January 2008 - 8.1.2008

Speeches

Plenary - Climate Change - 14.5.2008

Plenary - The EU and Sustainable Development - 24.4.2008

(Listen & Watch) Caroline on Public Services - 8.2.2008

(Listen& Watch) Caroline on Climate Change - 8.2.2008

(Listen & Watch) Campaign Against Climate Change Rally - 4.12.2007