SERA's Co-Chair Melanie Smallman argues that to save the environment from Brexit the Labour Party needs to be calling for a Green Guardian to put power in the hands of local citizens and force the Government to act on crucial matters like air quality and climate change. Continue reading

David Newman has worked since 1988 on environmental issues.  He worked with the late Greenpeace founder David McTaggart for 13 years, ran Greenpeace Italy 1995-1997, worked for the Italian Minister of Environment as Advisor, ran the Italian national association for composting and biogas until 2014 and established the Italian bioplastics association and ran it until 2015. He was President of the International Solid Waste Association from 2012 until 2016. He is currently President of the World Biogas Association and founded and runs the UK Bio-based and Biodegradable Industries Association promoting bio-materials. He is Advisor to Ditto Sustainability Ltd and to several companies in the field of waste and resource management. He lives and works in London. Continue reading

Hugh Atkinson, distinguished Research Fellow, Schumacher Institute and a member of SERA and Croydon Central Labour Party writes for SERA on the opportunity the Sustainable Development Goals hold for supporting our planet and the lack of government response to this opportunity.  Continue reading

Andrea Grainger is an environmental campaigner and SERA member guest writing for the SERA blog on the role strong communities and consumer democracy can play in building the environmental movement in the UK.  Continue reading

Jacinda Ardern, Leader of the NZ Labour Party wrote for SERA a few weeks before New Zealand went to the polls to elect their next Prime Minister. Since becoming Prime Minister Jacinda has been tackling climate change head on and standing up to some of the most powerful global industries.  Jacinda Ardern addressed the Paris Institute of Political Studies on the 16th April 2018 and her speech is below.    Continue reading