Speaker Kevin Frea (Climate Emergency UK), Tuesday 16th March, 8pm With local elections coming up, how do we engage local councillors in climate action? Some have asked: should we focus our action on local councils? Although MPs directly have influence on national policy (and we are asking for a national policy on greenhouse gas emissions)…
On the 17th February the Environmental Audit Committee produced its third report for the session 2019 -21, entitled: Growing back better: putting nature and net zero at the heart of the economic recovery. Summaries and the full report (PDF) are available from the website linked above. It doesn’t pull any punches! …. The cross-party EAC…
Monthly meeting: Tuesday 16th February, 8pm Back in France, in 2018, fed up with the double hit of rising prices and taxes on petrol and diesel, protestors took to the streets. They wore high vis jackets, or gilets jaunes, something which French drivers are required to keep in their vehicles by law, and made international…
James Hansen has written a letter to Boris, which has been published in an article in the Guardian, ,asking that he set an example to the world at COP 26 by taking the lead on fighting climate change through the implementation of carbon fee and dividend: Why has such a policy not been adopted in…
CCL UK welcomes our government’s recent commitment to cut carbon emissions by 68 percent by 2030. This is a bold and achievable target, especially in the light of equivalent commitments by other industrialised nations. The climate emergency is becoming more urgent by the day and we hope to see yet bolder commitments, in future, from…
At Columbia University on the 2nd of December Antonio Guterres gave a hard hitting speech on The State of the Planet, and what nations have to do to avoid climate crisis, poverty and war. This included carbon pricing: Put global finance to work for climate The commitments to net zero emissions are sending a clear…
Spreading the word about climate change and carbon taxes – with cartoons CCL member Zeeshan Hasan writes about creating successful cartoon for kids…about carbon tax In the beginning of 2016, I was living in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I had been reading books about climate change for a number of years and and had written articles about…
SIGN DECLARATION Most people in most countries now accept that climate change is real, dangerous and man-made. Most governments are signed up to the Paris agreement and even the most glaring exception to that is now returning to the fold. And our industries, too, are finally getting a sense of urgency and have plans to…
“If we can get legislators to not oppose us, that would go a long way” – Vince, Enviromentum At the last monthly national meeting, CCL UK and CCL EU received some inspirational training from Vince Schutt from Enviromentum. Vince specialises in motivational interviewing, which allows the legislator (activist, climate change denier, family member) to be…
The pressure is on….Useful article from The Independent, (15/11/20). Government climate adviser urges Boris Johnson to act now to be ‘credible’ on crisis ‘What we’ll be looking for is firm commitments for immediate action on the central issues which really have to be dealt with at once,’ says Lord Deben Ashley Cowburn@ashcowburn,Daisy Dunne@daisydunnesci Boris Johnson must…
