Hello and welcome to the very first Green Alliance News Review hosted by Amy Mounce and Matt Williams.

With this podcast every two weeks or so, we'll bring you an environmental perspective on the political and policy developments of the Fortnite, as well as drawing your attention to any big green stories that you might have missed.

We wanted to do this because a lot of news coverage doesn't tend to explain the environmental

implications of the big political stories of the day. And environmental stories themselves

rarely make the headlines, although the past week or so has been a bit different. So a little

bit about us first, seeing as this is our

first episode, Green Alliance is the charity and think tank that is all about achieving ambitious

leadership for the environment. So we're non-partisan, we're not aligned with any particular

political party, but we are unashamedly pro-environmental,

and that's how we're going to be approaching the podcast.

I was thinking about this earlier this week, actually, because I was giving a talk and trying

to think back to what first got me involved in or passionate about the environment.

And it was actually a lesson at primary school that I had when I was about

seven years old and it was all about the Amazon rainforest and deforestation and that evening I went

home and my parents helped me to write off letters to Greenpeace Friends of the Earth and

WWF. Wow so you're an instant activist. Yeah and I wrote to them and said I've just learned about

this thing called deforestation. Are you doing anything about this?

Amazing, good job. What about you?

Well, as my colleagues hear me go on about a lot, I grew up in a little village in the Peak District called E-Dale, and I think partly because it's part of the very first national park in the country.

And just because I was surrounded by greenery and nature,

I think it just feels like it was part of my DNA.

And so then later on when I learned about things like climate change,

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