A message from Caroline Lucas..
Back in May, in my last few months as MP, I secured a parliamentary debate on nature and biodiversity loss.
It was the dying days of Sunak’s government, and amidst the chaos and election fever, I wanted to focus attention on the upcoming nature summit in Colombia.
Because nature is in freefall. In the course of my lifetime, the abundance of species across the UK has fallen on average by almost one fifth, Without urgent action here and internationally, our land, skies and seas will be even emptier and even quieter.
We now have a new Labour Government which is better on nature and climate than the Tories, but that’s a stunningly low bar to clear, and nowhere near good enough. While internationally, both the nature and climate summits have failed to deliver the change we need, and Trump has been elected to the White House.
So, what can we do to make progress when nature is in crisis and our political leaders aren’t even doing enough to deliver on pledges they have already signed up to, to protect and restore nature?
Getting behind the work of our four MPs to prioritise nature action in this parliament is crucial. I am hugely proud that Carla, Adrian, Ellie and Sian have made such a formidable start in Westminster. They are brilliant politicians and campaigners and will work tirelessly to push Labour to do better – much better.
But they need your help. Ultimately, it’s not winning elections that counts. It is the difference our Green MPs will make to bringing about a huge prize – real hope and real change on the nature crisis.
We are living out of kilter with the natural world, destroying nature, and putting our own very survival at risk – a situation which must be turned around.
This is the battle of our lives and it’s worth fighting for.
Please get behind our four MPs and donate what you can to our Nature Action Now campaign.
