BRYONY WORTHINGTON

Member House of Lords

Bryony Worthington, Baroness Worthington, is a British environmental campaigner and life peer in the House of Lords. She has promoted change in attitudes to the environment, and action to tackle climate change, and founded Sandbag, a non-profit campaign group designed to increase public awareness of emissions trading, in 2008. She was a lead author of the UK Climate Change Act 2008, landmark piece of legislation which requires the UK to reduce its carbon emissions to a level 80% lower than its emissions in 1990.