e-news 18th December 2015
Climate change, its impacts and fracking dominate this e-news but also featured are the use of antibiotics in farming, tax avoidance and arms sales.
Year: 2015
Greens win support for new measures to tackle tax avoidance
The European Parliament today voted in favour of several Green-backed proposals on tackling tax avoidance in Europe.
MEP says fracking U-turn hugely costly for South West and incompatible with climate commitments
Molly has blasted the government for voting through controversial proposals to allow fracking under National Parks and other protected areas.
Cameron’s renegotiation offers a nightmare not a vision, says MEP
Molly warns the European Parliament that Cameron’s renegotiation agenda risks bargaining away citizens’ rights and creating a race to the bottom on environmental protection and health standards.
Our addiction to oil means that climate change and conflict in the Middle East now go hand-in-hand
Writing for the Independent, Molly explores the link between instability in the Middle East and an increasingly unstable climate. She suggests lessons leaned from the Paris climate negotiations may well be helpful to solving global conflicts.
Green Party Leader and MEP visit Somerset Levels to see how County is building resilience against future floods
Green Party leader, Natalie Bennett, and South West Green MEP, Molly Scott Cato, have paid a trip to the Somerset Levels to find out how the area is building resilience against future floods.
Molly Scott Cato MEP welcomes ‘groundbreaking’ Paris Agreement on climate
Molly has welcomed the Paris Agreement on climate change, agreed by almost 200 countries.
TTIP is a disaster for the Left. But Brexit would be worse
Molly writes for New Statesman on the threats posed by TTIP, focusing on food and farming, and argues that Brexit would make trade deals even worse.
Greens slam Tories over rejection of ‘tiny tax for big change’
Molly has slammed the UK government for defending the City and refusing to back a Financial Transaction Tax.
MEP welcomes support for Green proposals on use of antibiotics in farming
Molly has welcomed a new report calling for the use of antibiotics in agriculture to be cut back or even, in critical cases, banned.
