Citizens' Climate Lobby UK – Lobbying for a carbon fee and dividend

A fair solution to the climate crisis: Climate Income

Citizens' Climate is an association with 200,000 volunteers around the world. In the UK we are working with other environmntal groups to put in place a simple, fair and effective climate policy. A Climate Income can solve most of the climate crisis by steadily reducing pollution and protecting citizens from the costs.

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A fair solution to the climate crisis:

Climate Income

Citizens’ Climate is an association with 200,000 volunteers around the world.

In the UK we are working with other environmental groups to put in place a simple, fair and effective climate policy. A Climate Income can solve most of the climate crisis by steadily reducing pollution and protecting citizens from the costs.

Carbon Price

Polluters pay depending on how much they contribute to climate change, encouraging them to reduce how much fossil fuel they burn and to make cleaner decisions.

Climate Income

The money is then returned in equal shares to the population so that families do not suffer due to cost increases. Governments do not keep the money from the carbon tax.

Border Adjustment

To persuade other countries to do the same, international trade is balanced. This protects jobs and industry from loopholes or ‘carbon leaks’.

News

Ovo Energy boss launches ZeroC campaign

12th July 2019

Stephen Fitzpatrick, founder of Ovo Energy, has launched a campaign called ZeroC, a campaign to shift the world to a zero carbon future, calling for a General Carbon Charge, one which would account for carbon pollution within the price of goods and return the money raised to citizens in the form of a “carbon dividend”…

Zero Carbon: London meetup on Tuesday 9th July

5th July 2019

We’ll be giving an introduction to fee and dividend, with the opportunity for questions and some discussion, and then we’ll look at how we can lobby our London MPs, Assembly Members, Mayor and others. With climate change now very much on the agenda this is the perfect time to push for viable policy solutions. Targets…

Letter in New Scientist on the climate of populism

26th June 2019

CCL member Gareth Ackland has had his letter published in New Scientist: Debora MacKenzie is right to flag up the fear of higher environmental taxes, which could only make life disproportionately harder for the poor (Partition Mentality, 25 May, page 23). It may indeed fuel populism and nourish the idea that environmentalists are part of…

Views

Climate change is a problem of injustice

18th October 2019

Climate change is essentially a problem of injustice. People are not sufficiently aware of this. Worse still, the theme of justice and responsibility is anxiously avoided in the climate debate. And when it is discussed the focus is on individual responsibility, ignoring the fact that there are people in positions of power who bear an…

Carbon pricing after Brexit

12th July 2019

The Government has been asking people to submit ideas for what kind of carbon pricing we should put in place when we leave the European Union. At the moment we are part of the European Union’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and we also have our own carbon tax, the Carbon Price Floor (CPF), that…

Campaign: government consultation

28th June 2019

Respond to the Government consultation on the best way to tax fossil fuels The Government is currently consulting on carbon pricing, in other words, the best way to price the burning of fossil fuels out of our economy. The more emails they receive by 11th July, the more likely they are to take notice What…