Right to a Healthy Environment

We began the national campaign for the Right to a Healthy Environment in 2024 as it links closely with our local priorities (Nurture Nature, Protect Our Trees, and Planning for Good), local campaigns we already support (e.g. Stop Burning Trees/#AxeDrax and Fossil Free East Yorkshire) and a number of ongoing green priorities (e.g. Sustainable Travel, Increasing Biodiversity) and actions (e.g. Litter Picking).

So what is 'The Right to a Healthy Environment'? It’s clear that we require the ability to advocate for nature in the court of law, so we can see our society’s biggest polluters and destroyers held to account. A new ‘Environmental Rights Act’ would help empower communities (like ours) to hold regulators and public bodies to account in reducing the multiple layers of pollution affecting the homes of both people and wildlife. 

Here we share our more recent actions and successes with this overarching campaign.