Citizens' Climate Lobby UK

Author: Louisa Davison

Show the Love!
Download badges and heartfelt climate conversations

Valentine’s Day 2018, CCL UK is taking part in Show the Love, an initiative by the Climate Coalition, with our own version of the green hearts.

There are plenty of ways for you to join in, not just to show the love for our climate and planet, but also to have a conversation with family, friend, colleague or MP about our workable solution, Carbon Fee and Dividend:
- Wear one (or both!) of the badges – citizen power or Carbon Fee and Dividend.
- Download and print out one (or both!) of the CCLUK posters – citizen power and/or carbon fee and dividend – and put it in your window or car or at work or community noticeboard, etc.
- Go to Facebook or Twitter and share/retweet the hearts.
- Email a heart to your network, using the points from the conversation card.
- Email or tweet the Carbon Fee and Dividend heart to your constituency MP. In an email you could use the conversation points (below) to say why you support Carbon Fee and Dividend.
Heartfelt Climate Conversation

You can download a sheet with both badges and the following conversation points, so you can keep them handy on Feb 14th:
- Are you concerned about climate change and air pollution?
- Do you know the main causes? (Answer: carbon dioxide, and other gases and particulates from the burning of fossil fuels)
- Did you know there’s a solution that will pay us for burning fewer fossil fuels?
  Individual action won’t work fast enough to combat climate change.
  Citizens’ Climate Lobby UK proposes a fee placed on fossil fuels when they enter the country, whether through import or extraction. This would encourage more investment into future clean energy available to everyone.
  The money raised by this fee would be divided equally between UK citizens, which means that those who use alternatives to fossil fuels would come out ahead.
  CCL UK members lobby our Government to adopt this Carbon Fee and Dividend.
  There’s more information on citizensclimatelobby.uk
Have fun and let us know how you get on.
6th February 2018
You are exactly the right person to care about climate change

Katharine Hayhoe

All Souls Church

President Barack Obama, right, Leonardo DiCaprio, left, and Dr. Katharine Hayhoe (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

When evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe is asked ‘do you believe in climate change?’, she answers, ‘no’.

You’d be forgiven for thinking she’s just another religious climate denier. But you’d be wrong.

Canadian-born Katharine is a professor of atmospheric science, number 15 on this year’s Fortune World Greatest Leaders list and scientific adviser to Citizens Climate Lobby US. Speaking at All Souls Church, London, last night, she told us the reason she said ‘no’.

As in many times throughout her talk fusing Christianity and science, she begins with a bible passage, Hebrews 11:1, ‘Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen’. She adds to it: ‘science is the evidence of things you can see’.

Climate change is not something to believe in: the evidence is there for all to see. It’s provable fact; faith is irrelevant. (more…)

17th November 2017
October campaign!
Target letter-send date: Friday 6 October 2017

Over the next few weeks, we’re mobilising supporters and CCL UK campaigners across the country to send messages advocating Carbon Fee & Dividend to the new Climate Minister, Claire Perry (in the Dept. of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy – BEIS), via their MPs.

6 October is exactly one month before the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn.

Sending it via your MP is important because:
- It shows the number of constituencies involved
- Spreads the message among MPs themselves
- Supports your relationship with your MP
- Only your MP is required to correspond with you.
If you ask your MP to discuss carbon fee and dividend with the Climate Minister and reply to you with the outcome, they are required to do this.

If you need to find out more about Carbon Fee & Dividend, read this. (more…)
29th August 2017
Renewable power set to be cheaper by 2020

Investment company, Goldman Sachs’ recent research forecasts renewable energy to be cheaper than other forms of power by 2020.

Alberto Gandolfi, from Goldman Sachs Research said,

What started as a decarbonisation process – thanks to better technology – is about to become a process driven by costs and the economics.

This sounds like more proof that Carbon Fee and Dividend will work. CF&D would drive up the price of fossil fuel and their products and speed up the consumer switch to clean – and now cheaper – alternatives.

It would also give investors confidence that divesting in fossil fuel and investing in the alternatives is the clever move.

The resulting fall in carbon dioxide levels would be a big win for the climate and our planet.

Which begs another question: why is the UK forging ahead with a new nuclear reactor when the cost of renewable power is falling and the technology is coming on in leaps and bounds?

Written by Louisa Davison, 29 August 2017
Views expressed here not necessarily shared by Citizens Climate Lobby.

29th August 2017