Caroline Lucas

Caroline Lucas was the UK’s first Green Party Member of Parliament between 2010 and 2024, and before that served for 10 years in the European Parliament.

She has also served as both Leader and Co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.  She is a writer, campaigner and keynote speaker, with a particular interest in the role of education and the arts in mobilising action on the climate and nature emergencies.  She has won numerous awards for her work: they include topping the list of the BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour One Planet Power List of influential activists, educators and campaigners in 2020, and in 2024 the UK’s largest sustainable business awards scheme presented her with its Lifetime Achievement Award.

She is Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability at the University of Sussex, Co-President of the European Movement, advisor to several climate and nature organisations including the Centre for Climate Psychology and the Climate Majority Project, and a Trustee of the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne.  Her latest book, a Sunday Times bestseller, is Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story.

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It’s ecological breakdown that should put us on a war-footing: official

Admissions of extreme, eco-caused national security threats foreground importance of climate adaptation to bring much needed urgency and agency.

January 27, 2026

Collapsed bridge in Tadcaster after 2015 floods.

The new Infrastructure Strategy is not…strategic

Will the Government’s new spending and planning priorities, as seen in the Infrastructure Strategy coupled with the recent spending review, actually help make British citizens and communities more resilient in the difficult times we are moving into?

June 20, 2025

climate strikes

The Answer to Climate Breakdown and Austerity? A Green New Deal

It is not good enough to tinker with the status quo – we must reprogramme our economy so that it works for everyone. It’s about sharing our country’s wealth fairly and acknowledging that our planet’s finite resources cannot magically regenerate in an instant.

March 27, 2019

People's Vote march

How Do we Ensure that Project Hope Overcomes Project Fear?

Today is about changing the conversation about Brexit. It’s about moving forward – humbly, positively and with hope.

January 16, 2019

Society

Caroline Lucas of UK Greens: My open letter to Jeremy Corbyn

The old politics is crumbling, not just in Britain but across our continent. We now have the chance to embrace a movement based not on greed or fear, but on resilient local communities, people working together and a stable economy that works for generations to come.

September 19, 2015

Society

Fuelling a Food Crisis: The impact of peak oil on food security

Dwindling oil stocks and EU trade and energy policies threaten food price hikes – and could cause the UK to be vulnerable to food shortages for the first time since the Second World War, according to a new report by Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas.

January 3, 2007

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