We are very excited to be relaunching the Green Alliance podcast with a brand new six-part series called Insights.

Each episode you can tune into an insightful conversation between two leading voices in the sector,

a chat between one of

our own Green Alliance experts and a specialist guest speaker. They'll provide you with 20

minutes of environmental expertise on political and policy developments, a chance to dive into

current environmental topics such the Environment Bill, Throwaway Society, Aviation and COP26.

The New Insights podcast is kicking off with the chat between Ali Plummer of RSPB and our very own Ruth Chambers,

who sat down to discuss the landmark piece of legislation that is currently being passed through Parliament, the Environment Bill.

Welcome to the Green Alliance podcast.

We're the charity and think tank that is all about achieving ambitious leadership for the environment.

I'm Ruth Chambers and I lead our parliamentary work.

And I'm Ali Plummer. I work for the RSPB and I lead our work on the Environment Bill there.

Together for the past three years, we've been working as part of the Greener UK Coalition of Environmental Organisations,

working on environmental governance and principles after we've left the EU.

And in particular, in this episode, we're going to be focusing on the Environment Bill.

This bill is going through the UK Parliament at the moment, and it's going

to introduce a new governance system on how we actually look after our environment in the long term.

So the first thing we're going to think about is why does this bill matter? Ali, what do you think

about that? You raised some interesting points, didn't you, about our exit from the EU

and the gaps that that will create in environmental governance and in particular sort of the

fundamentals that underpin environmental law. So I suppose that's a good place to start. I mean,

it is the EU has played such an important role in underpinning our environmental protections,

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