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Protecting the Environment

I believe in protecting both the UK's vibrant ecosystem and the natural environment worldwide. The decision to leave the EU has created an historic opportunity to review our environmental policies. Outside the EU we can develop global gold standard environmental policies. I believe we can be the first generation to leave the environment in a better state than we inherited it.

Protecting the Environment

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I firmly believe in protecting both the UK's vibrant ecosystem and the natural environment worldwide. Environmental and economic progress are not just compatible: they depend on each other. The Government is committed to being the UK's greenest ever, and has established a 25-Year Plan to Improve the Environment to help achieve this goal.
 
Carbon emissions have fallen by 42 per cent since 1990. Britain's share of electricity generated from renewables has doubled since 2009 and Ministers are determined to ensure we become a world leader in the new green economy.
 
Between 2010 and 2015 Ministers provided £7.5 million to establish 12 Nature Improvement Areas, created 150,000 acres of priority habitats and planted over 11 million trees; they are now committed to planting 11 million more. The National Pollinator Strategy will improve our understanding of the abundance, diversity and role of pollinators, and identify any additional actions needed to protect them.
 
Fifty Marine Conservation Zones have been created to help protect our rich marine life, joining the UK's over 500 existing marine protected areas, and a further 41 have since been announced. A new UK Blue Belt of protected sites is now being created in British waters and around the UK's 14 Overseas Territories where there is local support and environmental need.
 
The decision to leave the European Union has created an historic opportunity to review our environmental policies. Outside the EU we can develop global gold standard environmental policies, not just to halt or slow environmental deterioration, but to raise our ambitions, restoring nature and reversing decline.

We can, and I believe we will, be the first generation to leave the environment in a better state than we inherited it. I work to realise this green ambition in Parliament and locally in Basildon and Thurrock. 

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Stephen Metcalfe MP welcomes funding boost for local walking and cycling infrastructure

Monday, 16 November, 2020

Stephen Metcalfe, MP for South Basildon & East Thurrock, has welcomed the additional funding boost for local walking and cycling infrastructure.  

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Stephen Metcalfe MP Presses the Government on Climate Change

Tuesday, 13 October, 2020

Stephen Metcalfe, MP for South Basildon & East Thurrock, spoke at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Questions today to ask what steps the department are taking to ensure climate goals are delivered when speaking with Foreign Governments – link

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Basildon MPs meet Minister to discuss air quality

Tuesday, 28 January, 2020

PRESS RELEASE from John Baron MP as location is within his constituency 

MPs and Councils meet Minister Rebecca Pow MP to discuss air quality on East Mayne and Upper Mayne

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Stephen Metcalfe MP helps Save ‘Page Woods Piggy’

Wednesday, 15 January, 2020

Stephen Metcalfe MP has stepped in to save the ‘Page Woods Pig’ which was abandoned in Page Woods, Basildon. Following his intervention, the RSCPA will soon take over care for the pig which currently resides in Bowers Gifford, Basildon.

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Stephen Metcalfe MP Joins Constituents to Call Time on Climate Change

Wednesday, 26 June, 2019

Stephen Metcalfe, Member of Parliament for South Basildon and East Thurrock, met with his constituents Jan Curtis, Ann Nash & Linda Allen today (26/06/2019) as part of a 15 000 people strong climate change lobby on Parliament.

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Stephen Metcalfe MP: Laindon Shopping Centre Demolished

Friday, 17 May, 2019

Stephen Metcalfe, Member of Parliament for South Basildon and East Thurrock, attended the demolition of Laindon Shopping Centre – the latest milestone towards delivering ‘Laindon Place’. The aim is to transform the centre into a thriving new high street for the local community.

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Stephen Metcalfe MP Welcomes Bill to Ban Wild Animals in Circuses

Tuesday, 7 May, 2019

Stephen Metcalfe, Member of Parliament for South Basildon and East Thurrock, welcomes today’s Bill introduced by the Government to ban the use of wild animals in circuses for performance or exhibition.

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Stephen Metcalfe MP Opens New Community Wood Recycling Charity in South Essex

Saturday, 23 March, 2019

Stephen Metcalfe, Member of Parliament for South Basildon and East Thurrock, recently opened New Life Wood, a new charity in Pitsea working to change lives by helping to relieve unemployment through wood recycling, training & day to day support to past offenders (23/03/2019).

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Stephen Metcalfe MP plants trees as part of the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy

Saturday, 27 October, 2018

Stephen Metcalfe, MP for South Basildon & East Thurrock, joined over 500 other MPs to plant trees as part of the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy, a network of forest conservation initiatives to mark Her Majesty's lifetime of service to the Commonwealth. (27/10/2018)

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Supporting the National Garden Scheme in Bowers Gifford

Wednesday, 19 July, 2017

I was delighted to visit John and Barbara Spooner's garden in Bowers Gifford, which they kindly opened up to the public to support the National Garden Scheme (NGS).

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