Campaign reply - Generation Sea

A number of constituents have contacted me as part of the campaign Generation Sea.

I do not sign pledges but I am wholly committed to protecting our environment and have long been an organiser and partaker in beach cleans and litter picks. My husband is a local hook and line commercial fisherman who has first hand experience of the problems of oil and plastic pollution at sea, in our estuaries, and on the shoreline.

I will help Truro & Falmouth accelerate the process of de-carbonising by supporting innovative local and national projects including improving the network of cycle paths and cycle lanes, promoting jobs that allow working from home, encouraging electric vehicle use and lobbying for investment into housing developments that are more energy efficient and environmentally conscious.

This Conservative majority government will embark on an era of “true 21st century Conservativism” by tripling tree-planting rates and creating a new £500 million fund to protect the world’s oceans to help meet its 2050 net zero target. The new £640m Nature for Climate fund will increase tree planting in England and we will work with the Devolved Administrations to triple UK tree-planting rates to 30,000 hectares every year – space for at least 30 million more trees – in line with recommendations from the independent Committee on Climate Change.

The Government will also launch a £500 million Blue Planet fund, resourced from the International Aid budget, to export UK expertise in marine science around the world, supporting developing countries to protect marine habitats and restore their potential to support biodiversity and tackle climate change. The fund will also improve conditions for fishermen who rely on healthy oceans and
plentiful fish stocks for their livelihoods.

These measures sit alongside our world-leading commitment to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Conservatism and conservation are natural allies and our goal continues to be a healthy and beautiful natural environment which we can all enjoy, and which we can be proud to pass on to the next generation. In Parliament, Surfers Against Sewage run the Ocean Conservation All Party Parliamentary Group, a group of MPs from different political parties who work together for cleaner seas. I look forward to both joining this group and doing more locally with Surfers Against Sewage in the future towards our shared goals of doing all we can to preserve and enhance our beautiful seas and beaches.