About three-quarters of greenhouse gas emissions that are attributed to humans come from burning fossil fuels. We burn fossil fuels — non-renewable energy sources — when we transport goods either by planes or huge container ships or operate other vehicles, heat our homes, etc, etc. Many of us are not aware of where a product was made as the likes of Amazon and eBay do not currently have to mention where something was produced. The same applies to retail stores and supermarkets as they do not have to state where something was produced or grown. I strongly believe that as consumers we should be given this information so that we can decide if we want to buy something that was made overseas. The carbon footprint for something made in Beijing, China and sold in London, England is a whopping 8,140 km (5,058 miles). For something made or grown in Buenos Aires, Argentina and shipped to London, England its carbon footprint is 11,270 km (7,002 miles). With your help I can present this petition to the British Parliament and hopefully succeed in getting a Law passed where we are informed of the products Country of origin. If Britain makes it Law, then other countries will surely follow. Everyone can do their bit to fight climate change and I hope you will take a few seconds of your time to sign this petition.

STOP PRESS: GALBA vows to fight airport’s new night flights expansion plan and calls on Council to allow the public to have a say. Responding to the news that LBA has submitted another CLEUD application, the group’s chair, Nick Hodgkinson, said: “We were expecting this and we’re well prepared to fight off yet another attempt by the airport to rewrite the rules that limit night time flying.” ”We’ve gained hundreds of new members in the past few months and together we will stop LBA from making local lives a misery. The airport’s boss has tried to change the night flight rules twice before and lost both times – we’ll make sure it’s a hat trick of defeats!” “The airport’s plan for a huge increase in the number of night flights would be very bad news for local people, the air we breathe and the climate we all depend on. GALBA will fight this application tooth and nail.” On Tuesday, it was reported that LBA had been in discussions with Leeds City Council and decided to make a new application for a Certificate of Lawful Existing Use or Development (CLEUD). LBA’s previous CLEUD applications, also seeking to reinterpret the meaning of local night flight rules, were rejected by the Council in 2024 and by a Public Inquiry in 2025. Ian Coatman, GALBA’s Secretary said: “So far, the Council hasn’t published any details of the application but we know what LBA wants – massively more night flights. This is despite the mountains of well researched medical evidence that night time noise and air pollution harm human health. And, of course, more greenhouse gases would be disastrous for the planet.” In a letter published on the Leeds Planning Portal, Leeds City Council has stated that “these types of applications [CLEUDs]are not subject to consultation”. It is unclear if this means the public will not be invited to make any comments at all on LBA’s application. Ian Coatman said: “We know for a fact that the Council can choose to invite factual and legal comments from the public. We know this because it’s exactly what they did with LBA’s previous CLEUD applications. They should do it again – this is a matter of very high public interest.” NOTES Previous CLEUD applications: there is more information about LBA’s previous applications for night flight related CLEUDs here. Human health impacts: there is detailed evidence of the harm that would be done to local people from more night time noiseand more air pollution. STOP PRESS:  BIG WIN ON NIGHT FLIGHTS We are absolutely delighted to share the news that Leeds Bradford Airport has lost its attempt to fly unlimited numbers of planes through the night.   This is a massive win for local people whose physical and mental health has been sabotaged by the relentless noise and pollution of planes taking off and landing overhead. After a four-day Public Inquiry, planning inspectors have ruled against LBA and now they must stick to the night flight limits. Prior to the Public Inquiry, the airport was blatantly ignoring the rules and operating hundreds of illegal night flights every summer.  It was only as a result of GALBA’s detailed monitoring that these breaches were brought to light, culminating in the Public Inquiry. GALBA simply could not have stood up against the tyranny of the aviation industry without you helping fund our legal case. This decision is a huge win for the climate as well as local people. Flying more planes at night is key to the airport’s expansion plans and everyone knows that more planes would mean more pollution, harming the climate we all depend on. We don’t know what the airport's bosses will try to do next.  What we do know is that people power works and we’ll ready to take them on again and stop them. Thank you for being on our side - from all the team at GALBA. As we stand on the brink of climate and ecological breakdown, airports throughout the UK are trying to expand. Leeds Bradford, Bristol, Stansted, Manston, Southampton, Luton and Gatwick are pressing ahead with expansion plans. Supporters of each expansion claim that the increase in carbon emissions is small in a national context. However, the cumulative impact would be a huge increase in emissions at precisely the time we should be doing everything in our power to reduce them.  Leeds Bradford Airport expansion is a test case. The local authority has approved expansion, claiming that carbon emissions from international flights is not a matter for local authorities to consider! So we have called on the Secretary of State, Robert Jenrick, to order a public inquiry so that the climate impact of expansion can be assessed in a national context.  This is not just about Leeds-Bradford. Approval of this application would open the floodgates of expansion at other regional airports. The government must intervene to stop the planned expansion of regional airports if it is to meet legally binding environmental targets and avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis. You can hear it from the experts. Over 200 Leeds Uni Academics already agree. https://www.galba.uk/post/press-release-246-uni-of-leeds-staff-and-researchers-ask-robert-jenrick-to-call-in-lba-decision Most importantly please share with your friends and family. Tell them why this matters so much to you. Thank you from GALBA - Group for Action on Leeds Bradford Airport

Make it easier to buy food with less impact on the environment.

Huge and illegal volumes of sewage continue to blight Whitburn. 760,000 tonnes of untreated sewage were discharged into the sea at Whitburn in 2019. Sewage pollution is a contributor to climate change. 10th January 2026 Update. Since I started this petition I have continued to ask relevant bodies for data for Sewage Pollution at Whitburn. My requests for data have been previously refused on grounds that I believed were unlawful. In 2024 I had to resort to taking the Information Commissioner's Office and Northumbrian Water Limited to the High Court to force Northumbrian Water to release data regarding sewage spills at Whitburn. The court found in my favour and the Information Commissioner's Office were obliged to change their stance. See here. Northumbrian Water were required to release the data I requested and I could see why they had tried to hide it. In 2023 the total of untreated sewage discharged via Whitburn Long Sea Outfall into the environment amounted to 1,006,680 tonnes. That's over 1 million tonnes of sewage. In 2024 the total of untreated sewage discharged via Whitburn Long Sea Outfall into the environment amounted to 944,673 tonnes. Almost 1 million tonnes of sewage. The situation has got worse. Background Our sea life at Whitburn is being destroyed by Sewage; the rock pools at Whitburn beach once teemed with wildlife but are now barren. The dolphins that are sighted daily swimming near the sewage overflow are forced to make their way through a soup of sewage when discharges are taking place.   The seagrass meadows in the nearby River Tyne estuary have been devastated by sewage flowing from nearby Combined Sewer Overflows. https://bit.ly/3bHG7db   Seagrasses can absorb more carbon up to 40 faster than terrestrial forests and these ecosystems become sources of CO2 emissions when they are degraded or destroyed. A major driver of seagrass decline is nutrient pollution from sewage.  Discharge levels of wastewater (sewage) into the North Sea at Whitburn, South Tyneside, are controlled by an environmental permit (245/1207) which was authorised by the Secretary of State after a public inquiry into the local sewage system was held in October 2001. It is a bespoke permit with strict conditions aimed at limiting the levels of sewage discharges. Despite these conditions, the sewage system at Whitburn (in a landmark ruling) was found by a court (ECJ) in 2012 to be not in compliance with the Urban Waste Water Directive. Too much sewage continues to be discharged into the environment at Whitburn without the required treatment.  In 2015 a new sewer was built which directs new flows to the Whitburn system and no application was made to vary the permit to allow for these new flows. These new flows contravene the conditions of the permit 245/1207. Huge volumes of sewage are discharged during light to moderate rainfall - normal seasonal and climatic conditions.  The system remains in breach of environmental law as the discharges are only allowed in 'exceptional circumstances'.  The application to vary permit 245/1207 will retrospectively permit new flows to enter the system.  Extra flows to the sewage system increase the volumes of sewage discharged through the Long Sea Outfall at Whitburn and so increases sewage pollution in our coastal waters.  This sewage pollution harms the environment and risks the health of recreational users of the sea at the popular resorts along the North East coast. The application by Northumbrian Water Limited to vary the permit has been required by the Environment Agency to be made (5 years after the new sewer was constructed) only after a complaint was made.  The application is being considered presently without any public consultation.  Public consultation lets people and organisations take part in the Environment Agency's decision making. (Image is courtesy of John Short)

Economy and the prevention of waste.

When cars and lorries are waiting at schools or level crossings with their engines on, also known as engine idling, studies show that it can have an adverse affect on children's health. That's why Stowmarket Eco Future Group decided to come together to ask Suffolk Country Council to take action on air pollution caused by engine idling. Every bit of carbon emission that can be saved is not only vitally important for the planet, but also for the health of our children and young people who breathe in these damaging fumes. That is why we are asking Suffolk County Council to pass a Bylaw which prohibits engine idling outside schools. With over 260 schools and colleges in Suffolk, this would make a significant difference to the health of people and the planet.

We are joining with the Climate and Ecological Emergency Alliance (Bristol), to demand action from our councillors. On current trends, our children will experience an unthinkable 3 to 5 degrees of global warming within 80 years! 2020 was the joint hottest year on record and the hottest six years on record have all occurred since 2016. The UK Government’s target is to go carbon neutral by 2050. But this is too late, because the world is set to exceed the dangerous limit of 1.5°C warming by 2040, causing irreversible harm and costing millions of lives. In fact, Government advisers also say that the UK is not on track to meet its own target. We call on South Gloucestershire Council to show leadership, by declaring support for the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill (CEE Bill). In July 2019, South Gloucestershire Council achieved unanimous cross party cooperation and declared a Climate Emergency, setting out a strategy to be carbon neutral by 2030. The CEE Bill is a game-changing vehicle for positive action. It is a draft law which has been introduced to Parliament and already has the support of around 100 MPs. The Bill would ensure that the UK Government plays its fair and proper role in limiting global warming to the 1.5°C recommended by scientists. It would include our carbon emissions from aviation, shipping and international trade, which are currently ignored! It would set up a Citizens’ Assembly, representative of the people who make up UK society, to advise on the Government’s emergency strategy. We call on our elected representatives to work together again, in the interests of our future generations, and to show climate leadership!

On current trends, our children will experience an unthinkable 3 to 5 degrees of global warming within 80 years! 2020 was the joint hottest year on record and the hottest six years on record have all occurred in the last six years. The UK Government’s target is to go carbon neutral by 2050. But this is too late, because the world is set to exceed the dangerous limit of 1.5°C warming by 2040, causing irreversible harm and costing millions of lives. In fact, Government advisers also say that the UK is not on track to meet its own target. We call on Bristol Council to show leadership again, by declaring support for the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill (CEE Bill). Bristol City Council was the first UK local authority to declare a Climate Emergency, and has a strategy for a carbon neutral Bristol by 2030. The CEE Bill is a game-changing vehicle for positive action. It is a draft law which has been introduced to Parliament and already has the support of over 100 MPs. The Bill would ensure that the UK Government plays its fair and proper role in limiting global warming to the 1.5°C recommended by scientists. It would include our carbon emissions from aviation, shipping and international trade, which are currently ignored! It would set up a Citizens’ Assembly, representative of the people who make up UK society, to advise on the Government’s emergency strategy. We call on our elected representatives to show climate leadership! When we get to 3,500 signatures from people who live, work or study in Bristol, our petition gets debated in Council!

Following this will increase the nectar available for pollinators tenfold. This increases food production and save money. 38 councils have adapted it and more are looking at this campaign.

The increased road traffic,but more importantly the emissions to come from this plant.As a country we are supposedly going green,why build this large refuse system so close to a large housing development and a large school.It seems to me that Corby is being used as a dumping ground.

A current condition of our planning, is that once construction is complete, we must block up the passing place/entrance, and build a new drive, to the west, requiring the felling of 8 mature trees, to tie into our neighbours drive. The existing passing place/entrance provides an essential passing place for motor vehicles, horses, pedestrians and cyclists, who cannot pass each other on this narrow lane. The lane is a slow bend and you cannot see oncoming traffic once you have entered the lane between the passing place/entrance to Bridge Farm, and the crossroads of Stony Lane/Dog Lane/White Cross Road. Our entrance/passing place is about halfway along this 150m stretch of blind narrow lane. Without the passing place, vehicles have to reverse up to 75m, and ones reversing eastwards, have to reverse out of a poor visibility junction onto a national speed limit road. The lane is narrow and a pram cannot pass a car, without using a passing place. The lane is on the natural village walking loop, used by many people daily. The current proposal is that this passing place must be closed up and restored to its original lane configuration. The current approved plan is to build a new driveway to the west to tie into the existing at Bridge Farm. This route will require the felling of 8 mature trees. The trees are on our home's South West corner, and will provide shade in the summer, but let light through in the winter, modulating the thermal gain, reducing the energy required to cool and heat the house. Removing them will add to the climate emergency. We accept that about 8m of mature hedgerow was removed by our predecessors, however our proposal is to plant approximately 100m of native hedgerow on our other three boundaries, more then compensating for the environmental loss. So we believe that the passing place/entrance should remain both on highway safety grounds, but also on environmental grounds

29million homes still need to be retrofitted and the built environment sector (Transport, Planning, Housing, Health, Land Use) are all siloed in their approach in building/ retrofitting our homes/ communities to be fit for the future. The sector has never had a ministry to combine all of the thought leadership occurring across the UK instead it has led to competition across the industry rather than collaboration, preventing us from reaching our carbon zero target in 2050. This is the ideal way to create a sustainable pipeline of research and development to realise places fit for the future, creating jobs, creating economic, health and social resilience across the UK.