Today, a bill that seeks to ban peat sales in England will be introduced to parliament.

After 40 years of campaigning, could a ban on peat-based composts finally be within reach Rishi Sunak?

It’s time peat stays in #BogsNotBags . 👉 wildlifetrusts.org/news/last-chan…

PEAT IN PARLIAMENT 📣

Next week, a bill that seeks to ban peat sales will be introduced to parliament.

Despite @GovUK’s 2022 consultation showing overwhelming support for a ban, their promise to ban peat sales 'by 2024' has not been met.

wildlifetrusts.org/ban-sale-peat (1/2)

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👀 16 April is a big day for nature and climate 👀

🏗️ #TheresaVilliers is bidding to save #peat bogs from being dug up for garden compost.

✅ It's a govt commitment with cross party support.

⏰ There's time for this to become law before the election but the clock is ticking...

Sean Boscott 🇬🇧 kitchenGarden Alistair Griffiths Peat is not already banned I'm afraid - common misperception, in fact govt has failed to pass law and it's still perfectly legal to sell peat to gardeners 😪

WATCH

The Government has long promised to ban the sale of horticultural peat, I pursued the Minister to get on with it in my recent question.

Peatlands are formed over thousands of years.

It takes 1,000 years for 1 meter of peat to form. That’s around 1mm per year!

Yet, it’s dug up when it shouldn’t be, e.g. to grow house plants

Pledge to go peat-free! 💚
wildlifetrusts.org/ban-sale-peat

📺 WATCH: CEN MP Tim Loughton MP 🇺🇦 calls on the government to 𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐬.

🌳 'UK peatlands store over 3 billion tonnes of carbon, which is more than all the forests in the UK, France, and Germany combined.'

It's #WorldWetlandsDay and we want to show our love for these gorgeous, soggy, carbon-capturing paradises!! 😘

Wetlands can provide...
💦Flood protection
🌏Carbon storage
💚Natural beauty

wildlifetrusts.org/habitats/wetla…

🔖 The govt has promised a new law to stop precious peatlands being dug up for compost

🪴 This is damaging nature. Alternatives exist

🙏 Tim Loughton MP 🇺🇦 for keeping this in the spotlight and Jim Shannon MP and Toby Perkins MP for their support

⏰Time to act

hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024-0…

For the fourth year in a row, the Government has authorised the 'emergency' use of a banned pesticide which is toxic to bees 🐝☠️

The The Wildlife Trusts have again called out this flawed decision wildlifetrusts.org/news/authorisa…

But what is the story with sugar beet farmers? 🤔🧑‍🌾👇🧵

Since banning this pesticide in 2018, the Government have approved its use on sugar beet almost every year since - harming bees and rivers.

We were told alternatives would be in place by 2024. That was clearly a lie. Short term profits come at the expense of nature instead 🐝

🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Research shared with The New Statesman Spotlight shows that robust biodiversity policies could be crucial at the next election.

megan kenyon reports ⬇️ newstatesman.com/spotlight/sust…

🌿🦡 Exclusive: Nature, biodiversity and tackling water pollution policies could swing environmentally-conscious voters at the next election, new polling from The Wildlife Trusts has revealed - for The New Statesman & The New Statesman Spotlight

1/6 A quick thread on Steve Barclay’s emissions…

By my reckoning, the Defra UK Secretary of State has the seat with the highest land use emissions in England

About 716 ktCO2e

This is almost entirely a function of wasted lowland peat soils that emit huge amounts of carbon

Exciting opportunity! 👇

In the last two months, Rishi Sunak
has 'scrapped' policies that didn't even exist (e.g. meat tax), and is now proposing legislation that is not legally required to do what he says he wants to do (e.g. on oil & gas licences)

But come the Election, he will no doubt argue that…

Bitterly disappointing - tackling the issue of horticultural peat has been considered by the UK Government for a decade. A 2024 ban was consulted on, repeatedly reaffirmed, and then dropped.

Why, at a time when progress is needed more urgently than ever Thérèse Coffey GOV.UK ?

A disappointing outcome for nature in today's #KingSpeech . Our key takeaways:🧵

❌No mention of peat in the King’s Speech – a devastating blow for peatlands both in the UK and abroad.

A year ago, GOV.UK confirmed that it would ban the sale of peat compost to “protect England’s precious peatlands”. It committed to doing this by 2024. [1/4]