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Green measures such as a change to the Bank of England's remit do not go far enough, critics say.

Updated 26/02/2021 21:01 GMT Green Party Defends Decision To Appoint White Person To Top Role On BAME Group "The work to achieve racial justice is not just for people of colour to burden alone," Greens of Colour chair told HuffPost UK. PA Sian Berry and Jonathan Bartley after they were named as the joint leaders of the Green Party in September  The Green Party has defended a decision to appoint a white person to head its group to advance the rights of Black, Asian and minority ethnic members. The party faced a backlash earlier this week when AC Baker was announced as co-s...

The wind farm furore caps a few days to forget for Queen Elizabeth. Queen's wealth under scrutiny The Guardian on Sunday revealed that in the 1970s, her lawyers lobbied the UK government to change a draft law to allow her to hide the full extent of her personal fortune. The manoeuvring is believed to have helped keep her shareholdings secret until at least 2011, and to this day no one knows the full extent of her wealth. The UK’s Green Party does not want the windfarm deals to add to the queen's fortune. “Rather than being squirrelled away in Treasury coffers, how much better would it be ...

The Queen and the Treasury could receive an offshore windfarm windfall of up to £9bn over the next decade, after an auction of seabed plots attracted runaway bids from energy companies including the oil company BP. The crown estate’s first auction of its seabed licences in a decade will earn the Queen’s property manager £879m a year, for up to 10 years, and clear the way for six new offshore windfarms and enough clean electricity generation for...

Queen's property manager banks huge windfarm windfall Jillian Ambrose The Queen and the Treasury are in line for a multibillion-pound bonanza from renewable energy, after a major auction of seabed plots for the building of new offshore windfarms off the coasts of England and Wales attracted runaway bids. The Crown Estate, which manages the monarch’s property portfolio, holds exclusive rights to lease the seabed around the British Isles. With its first auction of windfarm licences in a decade understood to have reached record highs, the Queen’s annual income is expected to ...