Lobbying

• These cracks soon became a landslide affecting several homes overlooking the Gill, ultimately swallowing tonnes of land and trees and leaving chunks of our properties at the bottom of the valley.
• The local council has forced my family out of our home, which is now teetering on the edge of a cliff.

• This is worrying, as events like these will become more and more common in the years to come.
• Although Hastings is a coastal town, our property is inland, so this could happen to anyone, anywhere.

No one wants to take responsibility

• This response – or lack thereof – reveals a troubling incentive structure, where the fear of assuming liability results in inaction.
• Our attempts to be rehoused or to have the landslide damage addressed were met with challenges at every turn.

Previously rare events aren’t factored in

• The landslide reveals current climate governance frameworks are inadequate, since they simply don’t consider previously rare events like these.
• This means landslide victims have to do it themselves, at enormous personal cost, and often without any prior technical or policy experience.

A call for systemic change

• In an ideal world, this issue would be dealt with by local authorities or utility companies.
• So we need policies that empower (or force) local authorities and utility companies to act without fear of legal liability.
• As the climate changes, catastrophes like this one can happen to anyone, no matter how secure we may feel.

Ralitsa Hiteva is a member of the Green Party.

• North Highland , the leading change and transformation consultancy, is pleased to welcome Monesia “Mone” Taylor Brown as vice president of Government Relations.
• Based in Tallahassee, Fla., Brown will lead the firm’s Government Relations strategy while driving growth for its Public Sector industry.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240408072703/en/
  North Highland welcomes Monesia Taylor Brown as vice president of Government Relations.
• Most recently, she served as director of Public Affairs and Government Relations for Walmart Inc.
  “We are thrilled to welcome Mone to the team,” said Wayne Messina, managing director and Public Sector Lead for North Highland.

• Today, Oxfam , the global organization fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice, launched the Corporate Inequality Footprint (CIF) , one of the only holistic, data-driven assessments of the largest 200 public companies’ contributions to inequality in the United States.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240318440656/en/
  The largest US public corporations with the lowest median salaries, including four companies with CEO-worker pay ratios above 1,500:1.
• (Graphic: Business Wire)
  The first-of-its-kind analysis, which looks at publicly disclosed data from the largest US public companies, aims to shine a brighter light on corporations’ inequality footprints and empower investors to engage them on the policies and behaviors that fuel our inequality crisis.
• To make measurable progress against the inequality crisis, Oxfam calls for stronger disclosure requirements that can better expose the inequality machine in US business practices.

• WASHINGTON, April 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg Government today released its annual comprehensive analysis of the top-performing lobbying firms.
• Bloomberg Government's report finds that federal lobbying expenditures reached a record high $4.27 billion in 2023.
• Bloomberg Government analyzed Lobbying Disclosure Act reports from every firm that was registered with the Senate and House in 2023.
• "Now in its ninth year, Bloomberg Government's annual analysis of the lobbying industry offers unparalleled insights into the dynamic landscape of lobbying," said Arielle Elliott, president, Bloomberg Government.