The CPRE have announced two events which will focus on their manifesto post coronavirus as well as possible countryside solutions to the climate change emergency. Details of these events are below:

Launch of CPRE, the countryside charity’s Post-coronavirus regeneration manifesto, 9-10am on Wednesday 1 July

This webinar will launch CPRE’s manifesto, which is our response to the coronavirus pandemic. It includes recommendations to policy makers on how we can regenerate ourselves, regenerate our green spaces and regenerate our rural economies post-pandemic. It will also premiere CPRE’s new television advert, which will appear on the small screen for the first time later that day. The event will be an opportunity to debate the recommendations in the manifesto and the confirmed speakers include:

• Rt Hon Philp Dunne MP, Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee
• Mike Amesbury MP, Shadow Planning Minister
• Caroline Lucas MP, Former Leader of the Green Party
• Rhiane Fatinikun, Founder, Black Girls Hike
• Crispin Truman OBE, Chief Executive, CPRE The countryside charity

 - Register for this event here

CPRE’s countryside solutions to the climate emergency panel discussion, 9-10am on Wednesday 8 July

This panel discussion will be an opportunity to discuss CPRE’s countryside solutions to the climate emergency, touching on energy, housing, landscapes, transport and farming. It will be the first time we speak publicly about our ‘Greener, better, faster’ action plan, which sets out recommendations for policy makers in some detail. Building on the previous week’s fantastic line-up of speakers, we will hear from the following:

• Rt Hon George Eustice MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• Luke Pollard MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle, Former Leader of the Green Party
• Freddie Northcott, youth climate activist
• Tom Fyans, Director of Policy and Campaigns, CPRE The countryside charity

- Register for this event here