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Labour Party Conference - Superpowered: How can Labour drive a clean growth revolution in the UK?
Tuesday 24 September, 11:15 - 12:30, at Revolucion de Cuba, Unit 17, Alberta Docks, L3 4AF
This panel - chaired by Professor Tony Travers, Director of LSE London - will discuss opportunities for green, sustainable growth in the UK and how they be can seized. We will debate the direction the Government has set, how this should be reflected in a new national industrial strategy and also in local strategies, and what the next steps should be – over this Parliament and beyond - to deliver urgent, green growth.
Our panellists, bringing expertise on green technologies like Offshore Wind and Carbon Capture and Storage, private sector delivery methods, and local and national policymaking, are:
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Alex Mayer, MP for Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard and former member of the European Parliament
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Lewis McIntyre, Managing Director of Port Services, Peel Ports Group
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Dan Norris, Mayor of the West of England and MP for North East Somerset and Hanham
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Esin Serin, Policy Fellow focused on UK energy and climate policy at LSE’s Grantham Research Institute, who also recently wrote for Labour List.
Conservative Party Conference - Born to be Wild? How land use change can help us reach our enviromental goals
Monday 30 September, 12:00 - 13:00, at Hall 7, Secure Zone, ICC, Birmingham
This panel - chaired by Kitty Thompson, the Conservative Environment Network (CEN)'s Senior Nature Programme Manager, will discuss how adapting our approach to managing land can help the UK build resilience, arrest declines in nature and kickstart emission reduction efforts in the land use sector.
Governments of both stripes have not done enough to help landowners and managers to achieve these objectives, and this event will cover how they can do that without losing sight of other strategic priorities like food security and clean energy development.
Our panellists, whose expertise ranges from their research into land use to specialists in rewilding to representatives of farmers and rural communities, include:
- Aphra Brandreth, MP for Chester South and Eddisbury
- Sir Robert Buckland, former MP for South Swindon
- Tom Bradshaw, President of the National Farmers Union
- Leo Mercer, Policy Fellow at LSE’s Grantham Institute
- Alastair Driver, Director of Rewilding Britain