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Amelia Womack

A group of people on a stage with a sign reading four day week

A four day week is crucial to building an economy that respects workers’ wellbeing

Amelia Womack
6 January, 2023 (4 weeks ago)

‘We need to ensure that we are building a new economic model focused around workers and their wellbeing while also ensuring that they receive a decent salary.’

No Planet B

COP27 fails to meet the demands of the climate emergency

Amelia Womack
21 November, 2022

‘As the road to COP28 in the oil and petrol haven of the UAE begins, then more work will need to be done to curb the control of the fossil fuel industry and to ensure a pathway to 1.5 degrees of warming is secured.’

Alok Sharma at COP27

COP27: Draft agreement puts world ‘on the highway to climate hell’

Amelia Womack
18 November, 2022

Delegates at COP27 have already begun to criticise the draft text of the crucial climate agreement

COP27

How will Egypt’s ban on protest impact COP27?

Amelia Womack
9 November, 2022

‘Protest has always been an important element to the COP negotiations.’

COP27

Will COP27 finally be able to secure climate justice?

Amelia Womack
8 November, 2022

‘With leaders mingling with the oil industry that have directly caused the climate crisis, civil society groups are concerned about a lack of meaningful action from COP27. ‘

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss on a Channel 4 debate for the Tory leadership election

With the climate crisis at our door, the Tories are fiddling while the earth burns

Amelia Womack
15 August, 2022

Heatwaves, drought and floods should be triggering radical action on the climate. The next Tory leader looks like they’ll only make things worse.

No Planet B

Amelia Womack: What eight little eggs tell us about the climate crisis

Amelia Womack
7 June, 2022

The tiny cogs in the machine that is our ecosystem are rusting, falling out of sync, or failing to keep turning.

Rishi Sunak

As the cost of living crisis bites, we must call time on the vandalism of Tory austerity

Amelia Womack
3 May, 2022

It’s a shocking tragedy that in one of the richest countries in the world, nearly one in ten parents say they’re very likely to need to use a food bank in the coming months.

Ukraine

International Women’s Day: Why we must stand in solidarity with the women of Ukraine

Amelia Womack
8 March, 2022

Rape in war is an act of violence that can be as destructive as bullets and bombs, yet goes unreported, is under prosecuted, and where the root causes remain unchallenged. 

Always learning: our manifesto for liberation, within the Green Party and beyond

Amelia Womack
27 August, 2021

‘It’s easy to assume that as time moves forward, our society becomes more progressive and accepting of previously marginalised groups. But the last few years have shown us that there is always a risk of sliding backwards on the rights of minorities’.

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