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
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
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 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
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
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
Newhaven Waste Burner Unlawful, Inquiry Told By Green MEP - 9.1.2008
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
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
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
Taking Action on Climate Change - 14.1.2008
Global Warming, Local Warning - 1.11.2007
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
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
