🌿 Climate Consensus Past, Present and Future: Lewis Goodall in conversation with Ed Miliband MP We're delighted to announce we're hosting an In Conversation with Ed Miliband and @lewisgoodall.com at Labour Party Conference 2025, in the LCEF x Anacta Hub.

Community energy allows local people to produce, consume and own energy where they live, together. It is incredibly positive to see community energy continue to feature so prominently in the delivery of the Clean Power Mission.

🚨 Register now for LCEF's Party Conference events! 🚨 We're delighted to invite you to register for LCEF's #Lab25 programme! This year, we're hosting over 18 events in the LCEF x Anacta Hub, covering a wide range of topics from farming to green skills and community energy.

Great to speak at TUC congress on the unhelpful narrative of builders vs blockers. Its not how you take people with you and get development moving in communities. Thanks to Prospect Union for hosting and their report showing supported regulators on the front foot can be accelerators or growth.

Onto our final panel of the day, where we are asking ‘how to communicate the big things’? Chair @prafulnargund.bsky.social is joined by panellists @chriscurtis94.bsky.social, @luketryl.bsky.social, @christabelcoops.bsky.social and @sophievipond.bsky.social #ggsummit

Our second panel on energy infrastructure and the grid is now looking at how we deliver clean power by 2030. Chaired by Virginia Sentence, and featuring Lola McEvoy MP, Jeremy Adams, @dharavyas.bsky.social, and Ed Hezlet (@watt_direction) #ggsummit

A rare example of an all-women planning panel - you love to see it! #GGsummit

Our first panel is discussing a new settlement for nature and planning. Chair @jessicaelgot.bsky.social is joined by @pollybillington.bsky.social, @rachelblakemp.bsky.social, Natasha Hyde and Ali Plummer.

And we are off! Welcoming words from our Director @paulmcnamee.bsky.social and Andrew Wordsworth from from Sustainable Ventures for our #ggsummit with the Labour Growth Group

We will shortly be kicking off our Green Growth Summit in partnership with @labourgrowth.bsky.social ! Our first panel focuses on nature and planning - with @rachelblakemp.bsky.social, @pollybillington.bsky.social,Natasha Hyde and Ali Plummer, chaired by @jessicaelgot.bsky.social #GGSummit

🚨 We're excited to kick off this Parliamentary Session by announcing our new Advisory Board, bringing together a range of leaders, campaigners, strategists and policy experts from across the Labour movement - united by a commitment to driving ambitious and fair climate action.

🌱 LCEF Blog Launch + Call for Pitches 🌱 We’re delighted to announce the launch of our new blog platform - kicking off with three fresh pieces from the LCEF team. 🔗 lcef.co.uk/blog

🌍 REGISTER NOW: Green Growth Summit🌍 LCEF and the Labour Growth Group are excited to invite you to register for our Green Growth Summit this September! 📅 Thursday 4th September, 1:00–6:00pm, followed by a drinks reception until late. 📍 South Bank, London (venue details upon approval)

🌿 REGISTER NOW: Natural Renewal – Labour’s Case for Nature, a lunch reception hosted with Aviva. This event brings together MPs, businesses, NGOs and finance leaders to explore how the private sector can help drive nature recovery. 📅 Wed 3 Sept, 12:15 - 2:30pm 🔗 Register: lu.ma/rcijgjje

📢 “When you made these threats, were you aware you were threatening one of Britain’s strongest drivers of growth?” The Guardian has covered @pollybillington.bsky.social's letter to Richard Tice, in response to his letter threatening green energy investors. 🔗: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Great to hear @umakumaran.bsky.social using an adjournment debate to commemorate the 137th anniversary of the Matchgirls Strike. We published an essay on its importance by Diana Holland, patron of the Matchgirls Memorial Trust, in our Return of Spring collection:

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION: Clearing the Air 🚨 Our latest essay collection explores the political importance of clean air for the labour movement — as both a framing and outcome of the government’s ambition for a decade of national renewal. 🧵1/3

Just a reminder that LCEF will be launching our new essay collection ‘Clearing the Air: Putting Health, Prosperity and Productivity at the Heart of a Decade of Renewal’ tomorrow in Parliament. Last few hours to sign up if you'd like to come along: lu.ma/0jpge8cz

Not only is the UK currently one of the leading major markets for EV sales, but it's also on its way to being a leading market for EV production too. The future of auto manufacturing is electric & the UK is outpacing other countries to be at the forefront. www.businessgreen.com/news/4515607...

Last week with @89up.org we hosted National Action, Global Leadership - a packed event on Labour’s green ambitions. Great to hear from @marycreagh.bsky.social, @metecoban92.bsky.social & @kerrymp.bsky.social on climate & nature ahead of COP30. Thanks to all who joined us on the night! 🌍🌿

🧵 The UK’s Climate Change Committee just published its latest emissions progress update, and here are our team's top takeaways ⬇ 1/4 @ralphpalmer.bsky.social @patrickgeddis.bsky.social @alexmackaness.bsky.social

Great roundtable this morning on the investment case for nature as critical national infrastructure - thank you to Rebuilding Nature for the excellent discussion and @pollybillington.bsky.social for hosting!

🚨 We’re hosting an evening of drinks & discussion for London Climate Action Week with @89up! 🗓️Thurs 27 June 📍South Bank With Labour nearing a year in power, we’ll reflect on UK climate leadership & the road to #COP30.

ICYMI, last week we we published our 'Power in our Communities' report with the @coopparty.party.coop. Our Deputy Director @mcortonscott.bsky.social's contribution asked "Who owns the future?" and discussed the third way of ownership and its potential for community agency.

A Labour Chancellor delivering a spending review that puts climate, environment and energy security at the heart of delivering change across the country. Good day for LCEF.

📢 LCEF’s new case study series, ‘Breathing Freely’ is now live! LCEF has launched a series of clean air focused case studies, exploring how Labour councils from around the country are taking action to tackle air pollution locally.

Great news! New build houses will now have solar panels fitted by default, saving homeowners hundreds of pounds off their energy bills *and* building in climate action from the very start of each new home. 💸🌞🏡

"Citizen engagement must be treated as mission-critical – just as important as building wind farms or writing new laws. Done right, it builds trust, excitement & lasting support." @hollybt.bsky.social in the new @lcefuk.bsky.social @coopparty.party.coop report on community energy. shorturl.at/Gmhq7

Yesterday, Ed Miliband spoke at the launch of @lcefuk.bsky.social & @coopparty.party.coop's new report. Featuring expert insights, incl. from our deputy director of politics @hollybt.bsky.social, the report shows why building local consensus on climate is key to a cleaner future for all. 1/3

The reviews are in. 🧐 Read the report Ed described as "bloody brilliant" today.

Last night, LCEF and the Co-operative Party launched our new report, Power in Our Communities, with Energy Secretary Ed Miliband MP. 🌱 The report showcases how we can give local people a real stake in our clean energy future—while also building lasting climate consensus within our communities.

We are living through a moment of extraordinary change – one that future generations will look back on as either the moment we transformed our energy system, or chose not to. Our new report with @lcef.bsky.social says it clearly: now is the time for community power, in every sense of the word.

We're releasing our new report with @lcefuk.bsky.social tomorrow. Community energy brings communities together to produce power that's clean and green, but democratic and people-powered too. Read all about the work already being done in Power in Our Communities.

This week, we'll be releasing a new report with @lcefuk.bsky.social on community energy and the incredible power it has to make our communities an active part of the net-zero transition.

Join the Co-operative Party & LCEF for the launch of our Powering Up Communities report + drinks reception, with a keynote speech from Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security & Net Zero. 🗓️ Tuesday 3 June, 5:30pm–late 📍 Westminster

🧵Today's energy price cap news is extremely welcome, and will see the average family save around £130 per year on their energy bills. This is the beginning of a trend that should see energy prices fall for good, as we move away from volatile gas markets by adopting clean power.

Investment like this is extremely welcome As well as cutting bills and accelerating net zero, it enables local communities to control their own power supply and to use this resource to invest in their neighbourhoods

🚨 Trustee Announcement 🚨 We’re delighted to welcome five new trustees to the board of the Labour Climate and Environment Forum (LCEF)! At a time when climate ambition has never been more urgent, we’re growing our governance team with an experienced group from across the Labour movement.

The position of Reform & the Conservatives is not to try & insulate ourselves from insecurity & reliance on Russia by rapidly growing our home-grown clean energy, but to instead bury ourselves in Putin’s warm embrace Both unpopular and dangerous 👇 www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Great article today from @pollybillington.bsky.social making the case that by designing planning systems that deliver for both nature and growth, we can create long term prosperity for our communities. incm.pub/43cez9c

Great article by @TomHayes in the New Statesman today that cuts through the noise and speaks to what the British people want. www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...

Today is a really positive demonstration of how key energy security is to the UK and wider world Starmer, Von der Leyen and Miliband all stressed the importance of clean energy in a changed world, where volatile fossil fuels have threatened national security and family finances

The announcement on steel is a common sense decision that allows for the state to take decisive action in a nationally significant sector, securing the steel industry in the face of rapidly changing global trading norms

"Overall, the direction of travel to a fully electric market has remained the same and that is the stability that everybody needs right now." ✍️ LCEF Director @paulmcnamee.bsky.social on today's changes to the EV Mandate.

Big news for energy and climate today, as the Government continues to push forward on delivering clean energy for Britain! www.gov.uk/government/n...

📢 LCEF's newest essay collection is now live on our website! 🔗 lcef.co.uk/publications... The Return of Spring: The Labour Movement's Green Roots features essays from Diana Holland OBE, Guy Shrubsole, Lord Carwyn Jones, Sarah Boyack MSP, Baroness Valerie Amos and L'myah Sherae.

Pleased to have contributed a chapter to @lcefuk.bsky.social's new essay collection 'The Return of Spring: the Labour Movement's Green Roots' My essay's on Attlee & the creation of the 'Nature State' - & what Labour needs to do to strengthen it for the C21st: lcef.cdn.prismic.io/lcef/Z-0ek3d...

Great @newstatesman.com panel with our Director @paulmcnamee.bsky.social this afternoon on priorities for GB Energy and how green industry can power the growth agenda.

📢 Announcing LCEF's essay collection contributors! 'The Return of Spring' explores the deep and ongoing relationship between environmentalism and the labour movement. We're holding a launch reception in partnership with the Grantham Institute, for which you can register below: 🔗 lu.ma/jzminnyt

GB Energy has just launched its first investment project - see our Directors' thoughts below 👇