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Oct 231 min read

COP 16 Amendments

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

Oct 232 min read

COP 16 in Cali, Columbia

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

Sep 41 min read

Alex Sobel MP honoured with Prestigious Nature 2030 Award for Contributions to Habitats, Biodiversity, and Green Spaces

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

Apr 211 min read

Earth Day 2024

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

Mar 211 min read

Climate and Nature Bill

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...

Mar 111 min read

Budget Resolutions Speech

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

Dec 13, 20231 min read

Update on LBA 'CLEUD' applications

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

Nov 10, 20232 min read

Alex Sobel discusses Wharfedale Hospital's new Innovative Elective Care Hub during special visit.

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

Apr 24, 20231 min read

Water Quality: Sewage Discharge

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

Nov 29, 20221 min read

Urgent Question re COP27

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...

Nov 28, 20223 min read

COP 27 my thoughts and experience

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...

Jan 11, 20223 min read

Alex Sobel calls for immediate Government action on spiralling energy costs.

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...

Dec 15, 20212 min read

MP questions Government’s commitment to flood prevention in his first question as Shadow Minister

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

Nov 16, 20211 min read

COP 26 question to PM, Boris Johnson

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

Oct 25, 20211 min read

Manufacturing and Net Zero

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

Oct 25, 20211 min read

Housing and net zero - Climate Change Committee Progress Report

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

Oct 9, 20211 min read

Leeds MP meets world leaders to discuss world leading climate plan

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

Sep 22, 20212 min read

MP is warning about the effect of spiralling energy costs on his constituents.

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

Sep 6, 20212 min read

MP Objects to Government’s ‘fig-leaf’ Jet Zero plan

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

Mar 12, 20212 min read

MP requests 'call-in' for Leeds Bradford Airport decision

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