Recent site activity

Home‎ > ‎

Petitions

Letter (2009)

Our current campaign is to lobby Ed Miliband, the Climate Minister, for strong leadership in advance of the Copenhagen talks. Download the letter and write to Ed, copying in your own MP:

Postcard (2008) 

Petition (2007)

Our petition asked Sheffield City Council to:

  1. Establish a baseline carbon footprint for Sheffield
  2. Put a Carbon Reduction Plan at the heart of the city strategy
  3. Set carbon reduction targets of at least 6% a year in line with keeping global rise below 2 degrees C
  4. Regularly publicise the city's progress in making carbon reductions

It was delivered to Sheffield Council on 3rd October 2007 with 1,732 signatures.  See the Council Minutes
On 7th November, the Council passed a motion concerning climate change.  See the Council Minutes.
For a summary of how these Council meetings were reported at SCACC meetings, see the SCACC minutes.


Word/pdf format for your workplace or organisation:
SCACC petition June 2007.doc
SCACC petition June 2007.pdf


The CO2 reduction needed by the UK by 2050 in order to keep the global temperature rise to 2 degrees C if all countries sign up to Contraction and Convergence proposal for carbon emissions. More info from the Global Commons Institute.

Attachments (3)

  • SCACC Letter to Rt Hon Ed MilibandJune 24.06.doc - on Jul 3, 2009 8:40 AM by Jenny Patient (version 4 / earlier versions)
    31k Download
  • scaccPETITION June 2007.pdf - on Jun 25, 2007 12:13 PM by Unknown user (version 1)
    20k View Download
  • scaccPETITION_June_2007.doc - on Jun 25, 2007 12:14 PM by Unknown user (version 1)
    24k Download