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I am pleased to have my text adopted at COP16 for ensuring that Parliaments scrutinise the National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plans.

I'm here at COP16 in Cali, Colombia, the UN Biodiversity Conference, known as the "Nature COP".

I am incredibly proud to have been recognised with the Nature 2030 Award for my work in Habitats, Biodiversity, and Green Spaces.

Earth Day - Questions to the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Minister

Today I reintroduced the Climate and Nature Bill to Parliament. One of the gravest risks we face today as a country and as a global...

On Monday (11th March 2024) I gave a speech during the Budget Resolutions Debate. I spoke about the Governments lack of plans in the...

Update: the council has opened a 'call for evidence' on the new 'CLEUD' applications. What does this mean? The following quote is from...

Otley’s MP, Alex Sobel visited Wharfedale Hospital, last Friday, to view plans and discuss the commencement of groundbreaking initiatives...

Earlier today, the Labour Party gave the Government a second opportunity to do the right thing, and clean up their sewage scandal. Once...

Since the end of COP 27 there has been an Urgent Question on COP in the House of Commons. Watch my question to the Minister of State at...

COP has grown over the years even since I started going in 2015. The core of COP is the climate negotiations which happens on two levels...

Alex Sobel MP and his colleagues in the Labour Party are calling on the Government to cut VAT on domestic fuel bills as an immediate aid...

The MP for Leeds North West, Alex Sobel, asks his first question in Parliament as the new Shadow Minister in charge of flooding. Speaking...

Today, following COP26, I asked the PM if we would deliver the adaptation measures that small island developing states need so they don't...

Last week in the Climate Committee progress report I spoke about low carbon manufacturing capabilities in the UK.

Last week I spoke at the Climate Committee Progress Report 2021, one of the issues I raised was on planning and net zero.

Leeds MP Alex Sobel has met with His Holiness Pope Francis and US leader of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi as the preparation...

Alex Sobel spoke about his concerns after the collapse of four smaller energy suppliers, and the news that the sixth largest energy...

Alex Sobel has formally objected to the Government’s Jet Zero plan, describing it as ‘fanciful rhetoric serving as a fig leaf to hide...

Alex Sobel has asked the Government to call in the decision to approve the new terminal building at Leeds Bradford Airport. The MP, who...