Environment

When politicians promise action on the environment, their actions often end up being counter-productive. They are either superficial attempts to grab headlines, or clumsy, unpopular, punitive measures that give environmental politics a bad name.

If a government is serious about the risks of climate change, for example, it doesn't build homes on flood plains. If it is genuinely concerned about the growth in emissions from aviation, it shouldn't plan to treble airport capacity. If it knows that that 15 of the world's 17 fisheries are at the point of collapse, it can't make policy as if those stocks are healthy and will last forever.

Today, most green choices are expensive. The challenge is to use the market to bring these choices within everyone's reach. I have looked at this issue for many years, and recently published a book, The Constant Economy, that aims to indentify the key steps we’ll need to take if we’re to restore stability, and live within nature’s means. There is a summary available at the following website; www.theconstanteconomy.com - which also includes links to articles I’ve written on the same subject.

• Zac urges Government to support two Food and Farming Bills
  
• Zac promises to vote for Planet Friendly Farming
• Zac joins campaign against 'Super Dairies'
• Zac asks Government to prove it's Green Heat Promise
• Richmond Students to take the lead on Climate Change
  
• Zac co-sponsors legislation for time change
• In September 2009, Zac's book, 'The Constant Economy' was released. Read more here:

www.theconstanteconomy.com

• Nick Herbert speech: A Conservative Lean and Green agenda
  
• David Cameron speech: Tackling the deficit is not an alternative to economic growth
• Andrew Mitchell speech: Ending Labour's support for polluting energy projects
• George Osborne speech: A sustainable Government; a sustainable economy
• William Hague speech: The Challenge of Climate Change
• The Evening Standard, A bright green future beckons..
• The Times, Zac Goldsmith: Turning Green into Gold
• George Osbornes's July speech to to Green Alliance
  

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