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To: Climate Change Lawyers
Take The Government To Court Over Failure To Act On The Climate Crisis
We want to sue the UK Government for a lack of action in relation to the Climate Crisis. Homes and the environment are being put under threat due to broken promises, failure to take positive strides towards sustainability, fracking and the potential drilling for oil in Sussex.
Why is this important?
On the 24th June 2015 a court in the Netherlands set an amazing precedent. The Dutch government is now legally bound to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by 2020, due to a legal case taken up by 900 citizens who would be adversely affected by rising sea levels due to climate change.
Under the Conservative government we have gone backwards in regards to renewable energy. Homes and the environment are being put under threat due to broken promises, failure to take positive strides towards sustainability, fracking and the recent finding of oil in Sussex. We are already in a position where we cannot consume more than 20% of our current fossil fuels if we are to stay within two degrees of global warming so as not to reach the tipping point that has been agreed by climate scientists. Therefore we need to be moving towards renewable energy, sustainability rather than further increase our dependence on fossil fuels.
Let's make our government take responsibility for their inaction and make it a legal requirement to put sustainability back on the agenda in the United Kingdom.
How it will be delivered
We will be delivering this petition to organisations and climate change lawyers so we can seek action against our government for failure to protect it's citizens.
