Ralph Palmer

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Transport & Air Quality lead at Labour Climate and Environment Forum | New Forest 📍 | Liverpool fan | Views are my own

Front cover of report titled Breathe Easy, How Labour Can Win The Politics of Clean Air. Picture is of a person riding a bicycle in a quiet green space.
Wolf Alice live at the O2 - picture of stage and crowd
Screenshot of title of blog. Keeping the transition on the road - and why delivering EV taxes fairly will be key 1 December 2025 Image of electric car charging Ralph Palmer Ralph focuses on LCEF's work on transport and air quality. He has over five years of experience supporting and leading programmes of work for leading climate NGOs, mainly focused on transport.
Image of panellists at Co-Op, Hope not Hate and Power to Change event
Polly Billington at Labour Coastal reception
Ed Miliband and Lewis Goodall at LCEF event
Graphic of Labour Climate and Environment Forum event at Labour Conference 2025. Title: Leading the Charge: The Next Stage of the EV Transition. Date: Tuesday 30th September Time: 15:15 - 16:15 This event is open to all attendees. Please note the event is inside the secure zone. Panellists: Lilian Greenwood MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary Ryan Jude, Green Finance Institute Virginia Sentance, Flint Global Marc Palmer, AutoTrader Anna Krajinska, Transport & Environment UK
Graphic for Labour Climate and Environment Forum event. Titled: Cleaning the Air through Labour's Health Mission Date: Tuesday 30th September Time: 08:30 - 09:30 This event is open to all attendees. Please note the event is inside the secure zone. Panellists: Adam Jogee, MP for Newcastle-Under-Lyme Shanika Mahendran, Milton Keynes Council Peter Babudu, Impact on Urban Health Mete Coban, Deputy Mayor of London Rezina Chowdhury, Lambeth Council
Graphic of Labour Climate and Environment Forum's conference programme. More details can be found in the link in post.
New car registrations in European top markets June 2025 versus June 2024 Battery electric vehicles as a share of new sales Germany 18.4%, up 9% France 17.2%, up 0% Italy 6.0%, down 41% Spain 9.4%, up 103% United Kingdom 24.9%, up 46%
Screenshot p59 of 10 Year Health Plan for England. Sickness to Prevention Includes: Refresh the government ambition on air quality to protect everyone from the health impacts of air pollution.
Front cover of case studies
Donut chart showing EVs making up 25.6% of new car registrations in February 2025 https://storage.googleapis.com/public_download_assets/ecc_pdfs/20250304%20ECC%20February%202025.pdf?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
"I didn’t grow up in a new town, but in Stockport my family did benefit from the kind of tight-knit communities we want to see grow up again. We had shops, schools and a GP close by, and parks and woodlands free for all to enjoy. We could walk everywhere we had to – no need for a car – but there was public transport right there when you wanted to go further afield."
Picture of waymakers for the South Downs Way with rolling hills and the sea in the background
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Picture of me holding Gareth Dennis' book "How the Railways Will Fix the Future" on the Eurostar
Graphic showing that 11 new EV models priced under €25,000 have or are due to come onto the European market in 2024 and 2025.
Graph from AutoTrader showing the discounting levels to EVs vs Non-EVs. As of August 2024, car makers are applying an 11% discount to EVs and an 8.4% discount to non-EVs.
Table showing year to date and monthly sales by powertrain in the UK. Shows that battery electric car sales are up to 18.77% for the year to date.
Screenshot of the article, entitled "Some company decisions don't make sense".
Bar graphs showing corporate vs private EV share in the EU by year for 2021, 2022 and 2023. In 2021, private was 10.2% and corporate was 8.6% In 2022, private was 14.5% and corporate was 10.8% In 2023, private was 15.6% and corporate was 14.1%
Screenshot of the article linked above where Jonny Reynolds explains how the EV transition was going well until the decision to delay the phase out date "delivered a huge blow to our credibility, risking investment, jobs and growth".
graphic showing the number of EV models below €25,000 currently announced to be coming to the European market for each year. In 2024, 6 models in this category have or will come to market, and a further 5 in 2025, 3 in 2026 and 1 in 2027.
Bar chart from New Economics Foundation report showing the car dependency of UK regions - East Midlands is the highest, followed by the East of England, South West, South East, West Midlands, North East, Yorkshire & Humber, North West and finally London.
A narrow country road lined with trees and fallen autumnal leaves.
Stacked bar charts showing the share of new registrations that are SUVs in the UK - showing growth from 50% in 2021 up to 62% in 2024.
Line chart showing average width of new cars in the EU and UK since 2001, with growth across all markets - for the UK ending up at over 180cm wide.
Graphic from Der Spiegel showing the field of vision in front of a Dodge Ram style pick up truck and a small child in front of it - who would not be visible to the driver.
Graphic showing the number of sub €25,000 EVs planned to be available in Europe, with 6 coming to market in 2024, 5 in 2025, 3 in 2026 and 1 additional planned in 2027.
Billy the cat (a tuxedo cat)
UK greenhouse gas emissions by sector, showing transport as the highest and going up in recent years compared to declines in other sectors.
Billy the cat watching Gone Fishing on the TV.
Image of the English Premier League table showing the mighty Liverpool football club top of the table by 5 points after 11 games