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Hi, will Prime Minister Keir Starmer's grand pledge at the UN climate talks make a difference without a proper plan of action to meet it?

In the words of the UN’s climate chief, it’s time to "cut the theatrics" and get down to serious business. So please sign our petition to demand a strong, fair climate plan that will actually cut emissions as rapidly as we need.

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With our planet being battered by increasingly severe floods, storms and heatwaves – and the election of climate denier President-elect Trump – the need for climate leadership by the UK has never been more urgent.

But yet again the international climate talks utterly failed to solve the problem of how to provide the trillions needed to support the developing countries being hardest hit by a crisis they’re least responsible for.

To be fair, we think the UK delegation, led by Ed Miliband, deserves credit for playing a productive role at COP29 which ended this weekend. And the prime minister’s emissions pledge was a step in the right direction*. So, thank you if you emailed energy secretary Ed Miliband to urge climate leadership at the talks.

But right now, the UK is way off course to even meet its 2030 emissions reduction target, let alone the PM’s 2035 pledge.

The UK is still burdened with an unlawful climate plan, inherited from the last government. So please sign our petition to Prime Minister Starmer today, asking him to do better. Together we can persuade the PM to write a bold and fair new climate plan.

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Tomorrow marks the 16th anniversary of the Climate Change Act.

Backed by thousands of Friends of the Earth supporters, in 2008 we won our campaign to make the UK the first country in the world to pass a law to properly hold the government accountable for cutting carbon emissions.

Dozens of other countries followed suit, introduced their own laws and emissions fell. But now we need to come together again because the UK is seriously off track to meet its climate targets. And we’re running out of time.

In hope,

Danny
Campaigner, Friends of the Earth

PS Did you see that the UN secretary general, António Guterres, described 2024 as a "masterclass in climate destruction?" at COP29? Sadly, it’s hard to disagree. We haven't lost hope though. Please sign our petition to turn things around. ( [link removed] )

* The PM pledged an 81% cut in UK carbon emissions by 2035 at the COP29 UN climate talks, the first time the UK has done so on the international stage.

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