During the 2024 General Election, someone asked me for the best thing the Conservative government had done. I said transition planning. Or at least putting the wheels for transition planning in motion. It’s also one of the reasons I knew I’d joined the right party in the Liberal Democrats soon after becoming a member in early 2019. It was in our 2019 manifesto. It’s firmly in the 2025 climate paper passed at Autumn Conference just passed.
Transition planning is the single most important piece of regulation missing to tackle the climate and broader sustainability emergency. It’s now back up for debate in the UK, a consultation having recently closed, four years after the previous government set up the Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) at COP26, the 2021 UN climate summit in Glasgow.
The Liberal Democrats have to be loud champions of transition planning
For our credibility on climate, our relationships with experts and activist groups, and our ability to attract and retain members as the most progressive party on climate and the whole sustainability spectrum.
The climate and sustainability emergency is a massive systems problem
It cuts deeply across the environment, society, and an economy that must move away from a sole focus on GDP and growth without any consideration of how those measures work for people and the planet. We need the biggest firms and financial organizations to publicly disclose their plans to help address that emergency.
From these disclosed transition plans, we need those large organizations to collaborate throughout their systems to bring everyone along. That collaboration must include their suppliers and companies they invest in, as well as customers, whether the public or other businesses, and policymaking.
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