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Politicians declared a climate and ecological emergency. 

So what are they doing about it?

The easy answer to that question would be ‘not enough – and too slowly’! But let’s accentuate the positives.

 

So here are Parliament’s 2008 Climate Change Act (amended in 2019), and the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill: a Private Member’s Bill, first presented to Parliament in September 2020, calling for more rapid decarbonisation of the UK and a Citizens’ Assembly to decide how best to achieve it. Andy Slaughter MP has expressed cautious support; Greg Hands MP has declined to do so. Here, too, are key books by Ann Pettifor and Naomi Klein about the Green New Deal - a plan for a government-funded rapid and 'just transition' from a fossil fuel economy to a zero carbon one.

As for LBHF, here you can read about our council’s original declaration of a Climate and Ecological Emergency (in July 2019) – and find out about the resident-led Climate and Ecological Emergency Commission.

To make radical changes, politicians need our support. Let’s keep pressing our MPs and councillors to act now.

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Reducing UK emissions

In June 2020, the Committee on Climate Change published 'Reducing UK emissions', its annual progress report to Parliament. Its findings are summarised in this Guardian article.

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Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill

The proposed Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill would commit the UK to more urgent emission reductions than ever before. Learn all about it - and how you can support it.

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Climate Assembly

Useful review - by Carbon Brief - of the Climate Assembly's process and report, published in September 2020.

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Citizens Assemblies

Guardian article on how Citizens' Assemblies, a.k.a. 'deliberative democracy', may save a broken parliamentary system.

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Committee on Climate Change

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is an independent public body, formed under the Climate Change Act (2008) to advise the UK and devolved Governments

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Actions for Cities

Friends of the Earth suggest 33 actions for local authorities to take on climate change.

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Case for the Green New Deal

Books by the economist Ann Pettifor and the Canadian journalist-activist, Naomi Klein, each making the case for a Green New Deal.

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XR and the Treasury

An Extinction Rebellion submission (Oct. 2020) to the Treasury Select Committee on Decarbonisation and Green Finance, calling for the Treasury to be more radical.

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10 point Green Plan

In November 2020, Boris Johnson announced a £12 billion 'Ten Point Plan' for a 'green industrial revolution'. Critics say it's not nearly enough. They're right. (Read the story in The Guardian)

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APP Future Generations

Did you know there's an all-party parliamentary group dedicated to the long-term view - on behalf of future generations? You can keep up with their work and attend their events.

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XRHF Commission

The resident-led Climate and Ecological Emergency Commission (CEEC) is helping H&F council achieve zero carbon by 2030. Learn about and support their work here.

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Climate Change Act

The Climate Change Act (2008) committed the UK to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050. In 2019, this was amended to being zero carbon by 2050.

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