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Protecting the environment
At COP26, a new agreement was passed, one which will take real action to ensure we meet our climate commitments. That is why we have released a plan that includes investing in renewable energy, taxing pollution, permitting new nuclear power where it uses existing nuclear waste, and rewilding key areas across the UK.
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I am Torrin Wilkins, and I grew up between Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire. It meant I was lucky enough to have nature all around me when I was growing up. Whether it was places like this, whether it was nature reserves, I saw them all, and it made me appreciate how lucky we are to have such an amazing natural world around us, but it also made me realise that we need to protect it. That is why Centre has a plan. It is a plan to protect our environment and to ensure that we fight climate change. The first part of it is ensuring that we have greener taxes. A green tax system: we tax environmentally harmful products, and we use the revenue to give money to those companies that are creating environmentally friendly alternatives, that are researching new products that will help us make the change to renewable products and recyclable products. The other change that we need to make is to ensure we rewild a lot of areas of the UK. We have already seen some successful projects where we have rewilded wolves and bears into the UK. They have been fantastic, and we need to do some more of it. Not only that, but we need to ensure that we create more green spaces and garden cities where people live amongst nature. This is about creating a transformational change in how we view the environment in this country and starting to live with nature, not just against it. So that is our plan in Centre, that is what we are going to do, and that is why you should support us.