Environment

My commitment to the environment

Gloucester, and Gloucestershire in a wider sense, has an intrinsic appreciation for the countryside and our beautiful green spaces. To ensure we do not lose this wonderful aspect of our community, we must look to protect, regenerate, and create areas of green space. Such examples can be seen in how I regularly help clean local brooks, creating new community gardens, and supporting the creation of a new green energy park in Hempsted. 

Please find more in-depth links to my various Environmental campaigns here:

https://www.richardgraham.org/news/sudbrook-community-garden-opening

https://www.richardgraham.org/news/gloucesters-new-green-energy-park-and-new-100000-tree-hempsted-woods

News

A fairer fishing policy for Britain

One aspect of membership of the EU that most of us have always found very hard to defend has been the Common Fisheries Policy - under which lots of other countries have been allowed to fish in UK waters, discarding dead fish caught over quota.

Protecting Police dogs and horses

Gloucester MP Richard Graham has said that the dogs and horses serving our police around the country are “much more than Police property - they’re partners in catching burglars, detecting drugs and helping to save lives.

Protecting the South Sandwich Islands

Today I’ve written to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to ask him to make the oceans around the South Sandwich Islands a Marine Protected Area. It’s important that we protect our oceans and this stretch of the British Overseas Territory is a globally important habitat, with half the world’s king pen

Tidal Lagoon Response: 'a sad day, but not the end of the journey'

Richard Graham MP says the government’s decision on the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon ‘is a sad day, but not the end of the journey’ MP for Gloucester and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Marine Energy & Tidal Lagoons, Richard Graham MP, has said the Government’s decision to not go ahea

Water refill scheme set to make a big splash

Gloucester businesses are coming together with local organisations to launch a free water refill scheme to help tackle plastic pollution. The Refill scheme will see businesses that have signed up to the initiative allowing people to fill up their water bottles for free.

Bottle deposit scheme to fight plastic

Gloucester MP Richard Graham has encouraged the government to introduce a deposit return scheme to increase recycling rates and slash plastic waste pollution. Richard said, “local and national support to cut waste in general and plastic waste in particular, and increase recycling is growing fast.

Pass on Plastic

Sky Ocean Rescue's plastic whale outside Parliament symbolises the amount of plastic that ends up in the ocean every second. This is why we're trying to reduce plastic use, but we all know that we need to do more.

Animal cruelty, CCTV in slaughterhouses and microbeads

The government has published a draft Bill to increase the maximum penalty for animal cruelty tenfold and “have regard to the welfare needs of animals as sentient beings.” Richard said, “long time dog or cat owners like me will support this.