Gina with fellow Green councillors on Lancashire County Council: Paul Stubbins, Hamish Mills and Sohail Asghar. (Promoted by Anne Chapman on behalf of Gina Dowding (Green Party), both at 12A Derwent Road, Lancaster LA1 3ES.)
Gina Dowding is one of four Green Party councillors on Lancashire County Council, re-elected in May 2025 for a fourth term. The four Green councillors together with seven independents have formed ‘Progressive Lancashire’ as the main opposition to the Reform administration on the County Council. Gina is leader of the Greens and deputy leader of Progressive Lancashire.
Gina has a wealth of political experience and success built over decades as a Lancaster City Councillor (first elected in 1999), Lancashire County Councillor (since 2013,) and was formerly Green MEP for the North West ( July 2019-January 2020).
This site now provides information on Gina’s work on the County and City councils, links to her general election campaign in the Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency in July 2024. It also stands as a record of her work as an MEP, and the reports she published.
The Green New Deal in the North West
Gina launched The Green New Deal in the North West report in 2019 when she was MEP. The report presents a framework for how we can fundamentally transform society in the face of the current climate emergency. Gina says: “The principles of a just transition across our region are as applicable today as they were then. The report identifies five key areas where critical change is required: renewable energy supply; energy-efficient buildings; sustainable transport; a zero-carbon, circular economy; and land use, food and biodiversity.”
The report outlines key opportunities and examples of best practice from across the region, setting out some of the policies that are needed to scale-up action. Find out more about the Green New Deal and download a copy of the report here.
Latest news
Gina to call for fracking moratorium to be made into permanent ban
Gina will co-propose the following motion at County’s Full Council meeting on 16 October 2025 Extracting shale gas in the UK is expensive, environmentally damaging, and carries geological risks. Since 2016, the evidence against fracking – a method of recovering oil and gas from shale…
Gina calls out Reform UK’s climate change denial
Gina has criticised Reform UK’s double standards on energy subsidies. She says: “Reform leaders claim that climate resilience is too expensive for taxpayers – yet they are willing to allow even bigger subsidies to the fossil fuels sector, including corporation tax relief on North Sea…
Please help raise funds for Gina’s campaign in Morecambe and Lunesdale
Gina Dowding for Morecambe & Lunesdale – a Politics crowdfunding project in Morecambe by North Lancashire Green Party (crowdfunder.co.uk) Getting to our £2000 target will help ensure we deliver our election leaflet to EVERY household in the constituency…..and get the visibility we so need. Please…