Greenpeace responds to Labour’s nature announcement

Commenting on Labour’s nature announcement, Rudy Schulkind, Greenpeace UK’s nature campaigner, said:

“14 years of Conservative broken promises have left our natural landscapes battered and bruised, while farming and coastal communities have faced growing economic hardship.

“Labour’s plans for a new Community Right to Buy and to strengthen rules against damaging pesticides, show they have started to clock that the only way out of this mess is to stand up to powerful polluting industries, and increase public access and ownership of nature.

“But these plans alone will not properly protect at least 30 percent of our land and seas by 2030, which Labour have rightly said they are committed to.

“The Party should use its manifesto to promise immediate action to ban industrial fishing in UK and global ocean sanctuaries, commit to national plastic reduction and reuse targets alongside stronger leadership in the Global Plastics Treaty talks, and deliver proper funding for a green agricultural transition and enforcement of environmental standards. This will be the real test of whether Labour can offer the change to protect our landscapes, coastlines and communities that they’re promising.”