Official CCHQ voice for all things Environment.
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ToryEnvironment retweeted
💚🔵 Yesterday’s Queen’s Speech outlined our new plan for the environment.
We will create new environmental targets to improve air quality so you can breathe cleaner air.
ToryEnvironment retweeted
🌳 🇬🇧 The UK is a global leader in tackling #ClimateChange and our new bill will ensure that we leave the environment in a better state for future generations.
ToryEnvironment retweeted
The #EnvironmentBill will protect and improve our environment for future generations.
.@ZacGoldsmith is considering banning the buying or selling of monkeys as pets 🐵
“Monkeys and other primates are wild animals with highly complex needs... Keeping them as pets causes immense suffering.”
thetimes.co.uk/article/62a2c…
Typical hypocrisy from Labour once again.
standard.co.uk/news/londoner…
📢@Conservatives are taking action to reduce food waste.
📝Following our call to action, all major UK supermarkets have signed up to help halve food waste by 2030.
All major UK supermarkets have signed our pledge to help halve #FoodWaste by 2030. 🛒
We’re delighted to see these organisations step up to the plate following our call to action.
Find out more: gov.uk/government/news/uk-su… #LoveFoodHateWaste #Food
ToryEnvironment retweeted
Net zero emissions by 2050.
Let’s do it.
#NetZero
📢 We will be the first major economy to legislate to end our contribution to global warming by 2050 and go #NetZero.
💚 Conservatives tackling climate change and protecting our environment for future generations.
📢 Today we are choosing to be the first major economy in the world to go #NetZero on carbon emissions.
Why? Because the planet depends on us coming together to tackle climate change.
So by 2050, Britain will no longer be contributing to global warming.
ToryEnvironment retweeted
Confirmed: We're getting rid of ⤵️
🥤 Plastic straws
☕️ Plastic stirrers
👂 Plastic cotton buds
🗣️ @MichaelGove: "These items are often used for just a few minutes but take hundreds of years to break down, ending up in our seas and oceans and harming precious marine life." 🐟
Staggering from @UKLabour
@FullFact recently confirmed that Conservative councils recycle more than Labour ones: fullfact.org/environment/do-…
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Only @Conservatives can be trusted to take the urgent action needed to protect our environment for future generations
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Disappointing that the government's plastics announcement falls short of EU proposals when ministers claim environmental standards will not lag behind after Brexit - @SueHayman1
labour.org.uk/press/plastics…
ToryEnvironment retweeted
So pleased the @Conservatives are leading the way in protecting what is most important, our environment. Hope these plastics that are a scourge of the seas are no more from 2020. 🐬🦑🐠 @ToryDEFRA
ToryEnvironment retweeted
Today I am taking further action to turn the tide on plastic pollution. Items such as plastic straws & stirrers are often used for just a few minutes but take hundreds of years to break down, ending up in our seas & oceans and harming precious marine life #PassOnPlastic
ToryEnvironment retweeted
We’re stepping up our fight against plastic waste.
Today we’re confirming a ban on plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds.
From next April these items will only be available to people with medical needs or a disability.
➡️ gov.uk/government/news/gove-… #PassOnPlastic #25YEP
JUST IN:
@michaelgove has announced urgent and decisive action to ban plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds – tackling plastic pollution and ensuring we leave our environment in a better state for future generations
🌊🌊🌊
ToryEnvironment retweeted
If you 💚#Trees 🌳🌲🌴🌵🏕🏜🏝 - you will love this from @michaelgove @DefraGovUK
@ToryDEFRA @Conservatives - 130,000 more trees for England - wonderful news - #EnvironmentalismForTheManyNotTheFew :
New £10 million fund to plant more than 130,000 trees across England’s towns and cities 🌳🌳🌳
@michaelgove: “Trees are vital in the fight against climate change, which is why we must go further and faster to increase planting rates.”
theguardian.com/environment/…
🗑️Every year 100,000 tonnes of available and edible food goes to waste
🥘This has got to change
♻️We are working with businesses, charities and volunteers to deliver a food waste reduction scheme backed by £15 million
#StopFoodWasteDay
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independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
ToryEnvironment retweeted
Responding to #GretaInParliament, Environment Minister Michael Gove tells us "The time to act is now. The challenge could not be clearer"
#ClimateChangeParliament
