Barry Gardiner

Barry Gardiner MP is UK Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change, and a past chair of the Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE).

Why is the government trying to ban experts from advising it?

New UK government proposals would ban publicly funded research from being used to influence government policy.

By Barry Gardiner

/ 9 Mar 2016

The Paris climate summit presents us with a historic opportunity

It may not be perfect. But the COP21 model – and the democracy principle on which it rests – may just be our greatest weapon in the fight against climate change.

By Barry Gardiner

/ 11 Dec 2015

What Labour needs to learn from the divestment and anti-fracking movements

Movements to divest from fossil fuels and oppose fracking have cut a path which Labour should follow.

By Barry Gardiner

/ 20 Aug 2015