Grandparents Against Climate Change
COP 26.
In October 2021 a further four letters were sent to every MP in the United Kingdom addressing:
1. The conflict between reducing emissions and the continued expansion of fossil fuel production.
2. Will our linear approach to combatting unstable climate change take account of potential unexpected cascading climate risks?
3. How serious are we at addressing our failure to protect Biodiversity?
4. How on earth did we get to this?
The letters are copied below and include hyperlinks to sources. You may wish to either read them to update yourself on the issues and their history or use them as a basis for writing to your MP as well.
(An earlier set of 11 letters sent in 2020 are also available below these four.)
In the run up to the presentation of the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill to Parliament in the Autumn of 2020 some 120 Grandparents e-mailed an introduction, then a daily series of ten letters detailing an aspect of Climate Change and a concluding letter to all 650 MPs. The aim was to ensure MPs were fully briefed on the essential facts of Climate Change and would therefore demand this and future governments take adequate and effective action in time to comply with IPCC guidance for keeping Global average surface temperature rise to no more than 1.5 degrees Centigrade above the pre-industrial average. The NOAA's reports temperature has already risen by > 1.1 degree C between 1880 and 2020.
In the run up to the presentation of the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill to Parliament in the Autumn of 2020 some 120 Grandparents e-mailed an introduction, then a daily series of ten letters detailing an aspect of Climate Change and a concluding letter to all 650 MPs. The aim was to ensure MPs were fully briefed on the essential facts of Climate Change and would therefore demand this and future governments take adequate and effective action in time to comply with IPCC guidance for keeping Global average surface temperature rise to no more than 1.5 degrees Centigrade above the pre-industrial average. The NOAA's reports temperature has already risen by > 1.1 degree C between 1880 and 2020.
You might like to use the information and references they contain, or listed under the adjacent "Climate Facts" tab, to provide supporting evidence when you write to your own MP, Government Ministers, local Councilors, 'Captains' of industry if you agree that without long overdue corrective action we all face serious problems ahead.
You might like to use the information and references they contain, or listed under the adjacent "Climate Facts" tab, to provide supporting evidence when you write to your own MP, Government Ministers, local Councilors, 'Captains' of industry if you agree that without long overdue corrective action we all face serious problems ahead.