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One issue that has so far not featured enough in the General Election is the state of the environment – here and around the world. 

I invite you to watch this short film on my environment work and priorities, and to help me share it far and wide! Please click here.

Given the sheer scale of the crisis we face, I would never pretend any government in the world is doing enough to tackle it, but despite the political paralysis, I am proud of the leadership the Conservative Party has shown on these issues

Zac Goldsmith: "Next year has to be a 'super year' for the environment, or frankly we're stuffed"

Zac's Essay for Policy Exchange

A big thank you to The Duke of Cambridge, Tusk Trust's Charlie Mayhew, and The Royal African Society - for convening an inspiring discussion at Buckingham Palace about conservation & environmental challenges in Africa.

WILDLIFE champion Zac Goldsmith is making a rallying call to save the planet’s iconic creatures from gangsters in the countdown to the global trafficking summit. 

Justine Greening is MP for Putney, and a former Secretary of State for Transport. Zac Goldsmith is MP for Richmond Park.

Every year, 20,000 elephants are killed for their tusks—the equivalent of one elephant being killed every 25 minutes. The ivory trade has been the major contributor to a shocking 90 per cent fall in the elephant population over the last century.

Last week, cross-party MPs came together to urge the Government to proscribe the Hezbollah terror group in an impassioned debate in the House of Commons.

Currently, the UK only proscribes Hezbollah’s ‘military wing’, separating this from its so-called ‘political wing’.

With the election over, Heathrow’s owners know they are reaching the end of the road in their campaign to expand. This is because, first and foremost, the argument against them has been won.