Ipswich
My name is Adria Pittock, I am passionate about the environment and about justice for people and the planet. I am standing in Ipswich as a General Election candidate for the Green Party because no other party is taking these issues seriously enough. We need some real transformative change to combat climate change and to ensure greater fairness and equality for those that have been disadvantaged by the current system that favours the few.
My career to date
Since the beginning of my career I have worked for change as a Campaigner in an NGO working on international food issues (Farm Africa and Farmers World Network), as a Local Agenda 21 / Sustainability Officer in Local Government. I have worked on a variety of environmental and waste management projects and am a UNISON representative for International and LGBT+ issues and in 2023 led a UNISON march through Ipswich for Fair Pay for Care Workers. From 2019 -2021 I was Chair of Suffolk Pride. I currently work in my organisation as an Equality Lead. I have actively campaigned for the Green Party in the past and have stood for Ipswich Borough Council elections 3 times.
Vote Green in Ipswich
I am committed to a better future for the residents of Ipswich. I have lived in and around Ipswich for 30 years and raised my children here. I have worked in Ipswich for over 20 years. I have been an environmental campaigner for my whole career. I believe that tackling issues like local job creation, reducing crime, improving housing availability and quality, increasing local health outcomes and environmental degradation need really positive local solutions. These can only be provided by local politicians who know and understand what peoples’ priorities are and who are prepared to listen to them and fight for them.
I believe that we can have a positive impact for Ipswich when we start to tackle major issues at a local level. We need to improve our local economy by creating greener jobs, improve our housing to make it more energy efficient and improve local transport to reduce air pollution and improve our health. We also need to improve our local environment by creating more green spaces and looking after the ones we’ve got and we need to work to reduce carbon emissions by de-carbonising our heating, transport and business systems. Recent environmental reports and COP 28 have shown us that we are simply not doing enough to reduce our carbon emissions and reverse the damage we have done to the environment.
The only political party that is taking these issues seriously is the Green Party. I am standing in this election so that the environment and our future well-being is given the priority it needs now. We need a completely new change of direction in order to reverse the damage we have done to our natural life support systems and ensure that we reduce carbon emissions before it really is too late.
We need to create jobs in Ipswich that are good for the environment too. Examples include investing in increasing insulation in our homes, creating greener, localised energy supplies, building new houses that are carbon neutral and retrofitting those that aren’t. These changes will also reduce fuel poverty and the housing shortage. We can invest is services to improve health and social care that are positive for our community and the environment. We need to ensure that everybody working in health, social care and education receive a decent living wage.
We need to localise our energy production and use greener and more local energy sources as well as invest in localised heating systems. We need to work with local businesses to reduce their transport, waste and energy consumption and ensure that they can provide sustainable jobs into the future. We need to be consuming healthy, affordable food that is locally grown and to support our farmers to be delivering environmentally regenerative agriculture.
Voting Green in this election will be a vote for a positive, sustainable future and away from the politics of the past that have led us into a climate and biodiversity crisis that is already having a catastrophic impact on people locally and across the globe.
