Ruth Chambers
🌍 Senior fellow, Green Alliance; Chair, Foodrise; Hon Prof, UCL; Adviser, River Action and the RSPB.
- 🔍 😌 This is what it looks like to breathe a sigh of relief after giving oral evidence in Parliament! 💚This pm I joined @richardbenwell.bsky.social @wclnews.bsky.social & Livi Elsmore @asthmaandlung.org.uk to give evidence to @commonseac.parliament.uk on the govt's new Environmental Improvement Plan
- 📉The Office for Environmental Protection has once again found government progress on meeting its environmental goals and commitments is largely off track. The lack of 'green' in its summary assessment is striking. www.theoep.org.uk/news/actions...
- 🌱 Why are we still digging up our equivalent of rainforests - peat bogs - when alternatives exist? In the latest @green-alliance.org.uk blog, @trewin.bsky.social explains why the government must urgently bring forward a new law to end peat sales in the UK. greenallianceblog.org.uk/2026/01/08/p...
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- 📻 In #TheGreenAlliancePodcast I discuss the erosion of environmental rights in the UK with special guests @chrisgpackham.bsky.social and legal experts. ✅ Despite the role the right to protest has played in shaping our society, we cannot take it for granted. green-alliance.org.uk/podcast/in-c...
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- ✅ In a world of political uncertainty, democratic checks and balances matter. My thoughts for @iwa-wales.bsky.social on how to future proof green governance in Wales. www.iwa.wales/agenda/2025/...
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- 🙏 Thank you minister @emmahardymp.bsky.social & chief scientific adviser @evoswami.bsky.social for an engaging discussion on action on chemicals pollution. 💚 It's an area where environmental principles – prevent, rectify at source, precaution, polluter pays – must be at the heart of policy making.
- 🌄 The political landscape in Wales is changing rapidly. As parties vie for prominence and power, coalition working seems inevitable, including on the environment. In such uncertain times, legal certainty and the voice of civil society matters. 👀New blog ⬇️ greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/10/28/w...
- 🚥 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 | Wales stands at a crossroads in both its politics and its environmental ambitions. @joe-wildlife.bsky.social and I discuss the state of politics and nature in Wales and how proposed new environmental laws should be strengthened in this #GreenAlliancePodcast 🎧 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 buff.ly/wrjblXa
- ⚡Is Labour about to put its historic link with National Parks at risk? I hope not but it seems this is not an academic question. 👀 All eyes will be on the government amendments to the planning and infrastructure bill, expected mid October. greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/09/30/i...
- 📚 There's a lot of critical environmental decisions piling up on ministers' desks. 🚀 None more so than the environmental improvement plan, which has stalled. Defra Secretary Emma Reynolds must get the new plan out the door and drive its implementation at pace. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- My latest @green-alliance.org.uk blog looks at some of the opportunities and challenges facing new Defra Secretary Emma Reynolds. 📝 There's a lot on her 'to do' list so where should she start? Here are five suggestions. greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/09/18/n...
- 🌋 ⚖️ 🌳 Who remembers when thousands of environmental laws nearly disappeared over a cliff?* 📑 In our latest briefing, we tell the story of retained EU laws and look to their future. * Luckily this didn’t happen thanks to civil society and parliamentarians. green-alliance.org.uk/briefing/the...
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- My latest @green-alliance.org.uk blog makes the case for the right to protest on the environment to be restored. It’s not too late to reverse this worrying anti-democratic direction of travel but the government must act now. greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/08/14/t...
- 🌎 Recent rollbacks in Brazil, Ecuador & the US show how fragile environmental governance systems can be. 🍃 In this new @green-alliance.org.uk blog I look at how the UK can strengthen environmental protections to help them withstand changing political winds. greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/08/06/t...
- 📆 Today marks one year since Defra launched a ‘rapid review’ of the Environmental Improvement Plan. 🪟 The Office for Environmental Protection has warned the window to get on track to meet environmental goals will soon slam shut. 👀 Safe to say there’s a lot riding on the new plan.
- 🙏 @justinmadders.bsky.social for reaffirming that environmental protections will be maintained when the govt uses its powers under the Retained EU Law Act. 📗 This welcome statement is in the govt's latest report to Parliament. ✉️ Read the minister's letter 👇 green-alliance.org.uk/wp-content/u...
- 🌟 🌟 Delighted to give evidence alongside these two superstars* this morning in @senedd.wales on a new legal environmental framework for Cymru. *Alex Phillips from WWF Cymru and Annie Smith from @rspbcymru.bsky.social who co-chair the @waleslink.bsky.social biodiversity group.
- ⏰ The climate change, environment and infrastructure committee asked us questions for 75 minutes. 🌊 We talked about the importance of making this important legislation as watertight as possible. 📺 Tune in from 9.30 www.senedd.tv/Meeting/Live...
- 🧩 The Welsh environmental governance bill will complete the legislative jigsaw we’ve been working on across the UK since Brexit. 🎧 For more details check out this webinar with @futuregencymru.bsky.social where @rspbcymru.bsky.social WWF Cymru & I discuss the bill. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g78...
- A thundery afternoon at #Elmey nature reserve full of bees and butterflies feasting on teasel nectar, corn bunting (which seems to be doing well here), hares and a sprinting stoat. @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social is this a moss carder? 🐝 🔎
- ⚡ Big news for Northern Ireland’s environment as an expert review signals the need for major change ⚡ We welcome its calls for stronger environmental governance and enforcement, to better protect and restore the environment. www.daera-ni.gov.uk/sites/defaul...
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- 🔍 It pays to read the small print when ministers exchange letters with select committees. ✉️ In his latest letter to @commonseac.parliament.uk, Defra Secretary of State Steve Reed sets out several important commitments. committees.parliament.uk/publications...
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- 📢 There's much to say on Part 3 of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill but other parts also spell big changes. 🙏 In this excellent blog, Prof Maria Lee explains why Part 1 deserves careful scrutiny, not least because of its democratic downsides. greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/05/29/r...
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- 🌋 As I tell @endsreport.com a major reorganisation of environmental regulators would be really disruptive and would not be a sensible measure at this time. www.endsreport.com/article/1919...
- The humble sandeel - an important food source for puffins and a test case of how to resolve UK-EU disagreements on post Brexit environmental protections. greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/05/27/t...
