What you can do
- Tell world leaders Copenhagen wasn't good enough for the climate
- Call for an end to investment in Trident
- Design an activist stronghold to stop the third runway at Heathrow
- Tell your MP to change the politics and save the climate
- Become a member of Airplot and stand in the way of a third runway
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Government gets it wrong on UK’s real emissions levels
Posted by saunvedan on 1 August 2008.
You will often find climate campaigners at loggerheads with the government's claim of reducing emissions, and for good reason. Two reports from the Stockholm Environment Institute based at the University of York show that the government hasn't taken into account emissions from aviation, shipping and importing goods from overseas. If these three are included to calculate our emissions levels which they should be, then our carbon emissions are increasing as opposed to the government's claim that they are decreasing.
Read more »Canvass your MP about cutting emissions
Posted by saunvedan on 18 June 2008.
A brand new campaign has been launched in which you can Canvass your MP to bring in tougher targets on cutting CO2 emissions. This website was created within a week thanks to climate campaigners working round the clock to make it available to you to take action. The climate change bill proposed by the government promises emissions cuts of just 60 per cent. However, a much higher figure of at least 80 per cent is required for realistically tackling climate change.
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