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To: Boris Johnson
Dulwich + West Norwood CC letter to the Prime Minister for COP 26 in November
We are calling on you to commit to the following objectives for COP 26:
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1. Honouring the Paris Agreement Goals to limit warming to 1.5 degrees C through increased commitments and with immediately actionable policies.
2. Securing a renewed agreement to honour previous commitments to provide poorer countries with £100 Billion every year from 2020, backdating the funding which has not been paid to date.
3. Acting on the latest IPCC report and immediately withdrawing the funding for all new fossil fuel based infrastructure in the UK and around the world.
4. Working with the international community to halt and rapidly reverse the decline of biodiversity and nature around the world to maintain and enhance our land and ocean carbon sinks immediately.
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5. Adopting the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals for a fairer society by 2023 and ensuring that the formal measurement of the UK’s economic health takes into account impact on the climate and on wellbeing alongside GDP.
6. Establishing an urgent, detailed action plan to ensure that the UK meets the 4th, 5th and 6th carbon budgets.
7. Commit to fund low cost, low carbon transport across all areas of the UK.
8. Urgently establish an effective, long term funding programme for whole house retrofitting allowing it to be taken up at scale across the country, by councils, housing associations and individuals immediately.
9. Ensure that all young people receive a robust climate education and leave school equipped for zero carbon jobs and lifestyles.
10. Support all schools to retrofit their buildings and ensure that all new school buildings are zero carbon from 2022.
Why is this important?
Please sign our letter to the Prime Minister.
For most years since 2015 the Dulwich and West Norwood Climate Coalition, a broad group of local residents and community organisations concerned about our climate, has held an annual conference for our local community. This years is entitled Speak Up for the Climate - Together We Create Change.
For this years event see below:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/together-we-create-change-tickets-172619990037?aff=ebdssbeac
The UK has a responsibility to lead the world in securing the strongest possible agreement at this November to tackle climate change, empowering us in the UK to make the right choices for our planet’s future and setting an example that the world might follow to avoid the worst impacts of catastrophic climate change and biodiversity collapse and put us on a better path.
Please sign our letter to the Prime Minister in the lead up to the next COP(26). We can address the issues of the warming planet, we have the solutions, we need the support to get there.
We are ready to take the actions needed, please join us.
How it will be delivered
Delivered in person with Helen Hayes MP for Dulwich and West Norwood
