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Today's budget marked a significant change for living standards across the UK. With cost of living the most salient issue across voter demographics, LCEF welcomes these measures to bring down fuel poverty and end tax exemptions for the wealthiest amongst us.

👇 LCEF's response below:

'Why COP30 mattered – and why Labour MPs needed to be there' - LabourList As MPs, we will do everything we can to keep the UK at the heart of the global effort to build a better future. Four Labour MPs on why they went to COP30.

👇 Read the full piece from @sarahcoombesmp.bsky.social, @anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social, @umakumaran.bsky.social and @rosiewrightingmp.bsky.social: labourlist.org/2025/11/cop3...

This year, we were delighted to support a cross-party delegation of MPs in attending COP30 in Belem. At a time when the climate consensus is fracturing due to rising far-right movements determined to stall or undo progress, it's important that progressives stand together.

If you'd like to contribute your own blog, please email pitch@lcef.co.uk - we're always open to hearing new pitches, even if you haven't written before. ✍️

Reflections from Belem: lcef.co.uk/blog/reflect...

The message from Belém is clear: those seeking to stall or reverse progress are not winning the argument. Multilateralism has its frustrations, but it remains our strongest tool for delivering climate action that is just and fair.

🌍 NEW BLOG: Reflections from Belem: Why Multilateralism Still Matters

We're pleased to share this reflection from @alexchitty.bsky.social exploring what it means to negotiate climate action when almost every country in the world has a seat at the table.

We're pleased to share this guest post by George Pickthorn exploring why Labour's Critical Minerals Strategy must deliver domestic capacity that creates jobs and revitalizes communities.

If you'd like to contribute your own blog, please email pitch@lcef.co.uk. ✍️

⚡ NEW BLOG: How Critical Minerals Can Deliver for Left-Behind Communities

The energy transition depends on batteries, wind turbines, and solar panels - but what about the lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements that power them?

🔋 Digging Deep: lcef.co.uk/blog/digging...

If you'd like to contribute your own blog - on retrofitting buildings, the circular economy, or another topic - please email pitch@lcef.co.uk. ✍️

We're pleased to share this guest post by Will Hurst from Don't Waste Buildings exploring why transforming vacant buildings, rather than demolishing them, must be central to our climate and economic strategy.

🏗️ Warm Homes Plan Blog Series #5

What if tackling empty buildings could deliver homes, jobs, regenerate high streets, AND cut emissions - all at once?

🔄 We reuse shopping bags. Why not buildings? lcef.co.uk/blog/recycli...

The UK faces a nature crisis. So much of what makes our country so special is at risk.

But there are huge opportunities to harness investment in natural renewal.

Great to join @lcefuk.bsky.social to speak to environmentalists and investors about how we can most of them

The lesson? When transitions are unjust, communities pay the price for generations. With the publication of the Clean Energy Jobs Plan, it is therefore a meaningful win that the mistakes of the past will not be repeated.

Read the full piece: lcef.co.uk/blog/unjust-...

⚒️ NEW BLOG: An Unjust Transition - The Miners' Strike in Wales

We're delighted to publish Lord Jones of Penybont's full essay from our Return of Spring collection reflecting on the miners' strike of the 1980s, and what it teaches us about economic change in the age of net zero.

Wonderful to co-host @eciu.net's 10 Years Since Paris reception last night with @wellcometrust.bsky.social, CEN,
@ldnc-uk.bsky.social & @peersfortheplanet.bsky.social.

Ahead of COP30, the UK's climate leadership on the world stage has never been more important.

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If you'd like to contribute your own blog, whether that's on the Warm Homes Plan, or another topic - please email pitch@lcef.co.uk. ✍️

We're pleased to share this guest post by Thom Groot, CEO of The Electric Car Scheme on how the affordability model that worked for EVs could be the key to accelerating heat pump adoption.

🏠 Warm Homes Plan Blog Series #3

Salary sacrifice transformed the electric vehicle market - but can the same model unlock home energy upgrades?

💡 Making the Switch: lcef.co.uk/blog/making-...

Our Natural Renewal reception in the House of Lords showed the strength of commitment from business, finance & NGOs to restore nature.

This government has a real chance to lead on nature recovery - with ambitious leadership and strong policy.

Thanks to Aviva for sponsoring.

"It is wrong that people have to leave the communities they grew up in to find well-paid, good jobs" - this is why clean power represents a key industrial opportunity. 📣

See below for our Directors' comments on the Clean Energy Jobs Plan. 👇

If you'd like to contribute your own blog - on the Warm Homes Plan or another topic - please email pitch@lcef.co.uk. ✍️

We're delighted to share the second piece in our Warm Homes Plan series by Jenn Humphries of @seahorseenv.bsky.social on how great policy needs to be matched by clarity and confidence.

Stay tuned for upcoming contributions from Renters' Reform Coalition, Citizens Advice and Energy Saving Trust. 📖

🏠 Warm Homes Plan Blog Series #2

The Warm Homes Plan could be a game-changer - but could progress be blocked by public confusion?

🌡️Testing the Temperature: lcef.co.uk/blog/testing...

Our Energy Transition Programme Manager @patrickgeddis.bsky.social has just published a piece on our blog on the progress made since the UK switched off coal a year ago, and you can read it here:

🔗 Renewables Surge Prove UK Climate Leadership Works: lcef.co.uk/blog/renewab...

In her words: the next Industrial Revolution will be judged not just on how many jobs it creates, but on who gets those jobs.

Stay tuned for contributions from Energy Saving Trust, Renters' Reform Coalition, and Seahorse Environmental.
Want to contribute? Email pitch@lcef.co.uk ✍️

We often discuss opportunities around the transition, but ensuring they reach everyone is a challenge in itself. 🌱
Our opening blog from Jane Thomas (Women in Retrofit) examines how we can tackle longstanding inequalities in our industries. 👷‍♀️👷‍♂️

🏠 NEW: Warm Homes Plan Blog Series

With the launch approaching soon, we're sharing different perspectives on the Warm Homes Plan - our first instalment of which is now live:

⚡ Rewiring Retrofit: How We Can Level the Playing Field
lcef.co.uk/blog/rewiring-retrofit

Just over a year ago the UK switched off its last coal power station, and today we've seen renewables overtake coal as the world's biggest source of electricity - a reminder that despite naysayers, the UK's global leadership on clean power does make a difference.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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