The 26th November marks the 16th anniversary of the Climate Change Act. To mark this milestone, Friends of the Earth has published a new report, Climate at a Crossroads. The report highlights the achievements of the Act and outlines what our Big Climate Plan campaign is calling on the UK government to do next.
Blackwater Valley FoE ordered 5 copies of the report one for each of the MPs in the valley area: Alex Brewer, North East Hampshire; Alex Baker, Aldershot; Jeremy Hunt, Godalming and Ash; Al Pinkerton, Surrey Heath and Peter Swallow, Bracknell.
The MP sponsoring the Climate and Nature Bil is Roz Savage (LibDem). It’s second reading will be on 24th January 2025 and to progress there must be 102 MPS present in the Commons. The LibDems, Greens and Scottish Nationalists have a total of 85 MPs so we need another 17, hopefully from Labour.
As the BVFOE members get to the other MPs they should ask if they support this bill.
Members of each constituency have been tasked to hand deliver a hard copy of the report to each of the MPs. This has proved a fairly difficult task to achieve.
Congratulations to Peter Swallow for being the first and only MP so far to reply positively to the request. His report was delivered personally to him on the 6th December. Peter Swallow’s view was that it was a private member’s bill and unlikely to get through and also the government’s environment approach with 5 bills would pick up much of what is covered in the Climate and Nature Bill.
Alex Baker’s report has now been delivered to a reception desk in the lobby of an office block We are looking forward to a reply.
An update will be given when each of the hard copies have been delivered to the MPs.
News from Godalming and Ash is that the delivery hasn’t really gone to the FoE plan. Jeremy Hunt is too busy to see our representative before next year but that he was committed to the UK’s leading position on the climate and Carbon reductions and would read the report online. The hard copy is to be posted to him.
In the meantime here is a link to the report. It is worth a read.