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.