What will lab grown meat and dairy mean for food, farming and the environment?

Online event

Following the news that lab grown meat is due to hit the shelves for the first time, we invite you to hear from a panel of experts on the potential consequences of this new technology.

Learn more or register for the event

Date: Thursday, 10 December 2020
Time: 4.00 - 5.00pm (GMT)

Getting the building blocks right

Infrastructure priorities for a green recovery

Infrastructure governs everything we do, including how green we can be.

We advocate a new approach to national infrastructure strategy to drive a green industrial revolution, support the UK’s economic recovery from Covid-19 and create over a million jobs across the country in green sectors.

Press release: 'Government infrastructure policy isn’t fit for net zero, says report'

Read our report: Getting the building blocks right

Design for a circular economy

Reducing the impacts of the products we use

Ecodesign standards and energy labelling have been a huge success story, improving the efficiency of everyday products, reducing their environmental impact and cutting energy bills for consumers.

Despite these successes, there are other environmental impacts of products that ecodesign does not address but could, particularly resource use.

Press release: 'Tackle e-waste mountain, to protect the planet and save money, says report'

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Fixing our relationship with stuff

The role of better design and the right to repair

While electronics play an increasingly important role in our lives, short lived products have led to a mounting e-waste problem in the UK.

Head of resource policy, Libby Peake joins the co-founders of the Restart Project, Janet Gunter and Ugo Vallauri to discuss how we can fix our relationship with stuff.

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Our recent achievements and future plans

Annual review 2019-20

"Green Alliance’s way of achieving change: a combination of original thinking, firmly rooted in evidence and powerful coalition building." Shaun Spiers, executive director, Green Alliance

From running the largest ever mass parliamentary lobby on climate change and influencing the post-Brexit environmental settlement, to proposing system fixes to solve plastic pollution, 2019-20 was a busy year for Green Alliance.

Find out more about our recent work in our Annual review 2019-20

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