NEW ZOOM EVENT: Backing the Climate and Nature Bill’s second reading: why your MP needs to be there and what you can do to help.
In collaboration with Operation Noah, Green Christian and other groups to be announced.
The CAN Bill is the only proposed legislation that addresses the full extent of the climate and nature crisis in line with the most up-to-date science.
We have a golden opportunity – if we act fast – to get the Climate and Nature Bill into law. Come and hear why as Christians this matters to us and how we can help make it happen.
SPEAKERS FOR THE ZOOM EVENT ON DEC 4th
Jamie Russell is grassroots manager at Zero Hour, the campaign supporting the Climate and Nature Bill. He is a veteran environmental campaigner and lives in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
Paul Kunert is the author of Jesus Died to Save the Planet and has been working in Africa’s electricity sector for the last 25 years in various senior leadership roles, developing, financing, building, and managing major power plants in countries all over the continent. He is a chartered accountant and has a degree in economics and politics.
LATEST ON THE CLIMATE AND NATURE BILL
Dr Roz Savage MBE, Liberal Democrat MP for South Cotswolds, has decided to select the Climate and Nature Bill as her ‘ballot bill’ of choice—which she will now champion in the House of Commons.
And this is where it gets exciting—having topped the ballot, Roz Savage MP has a chance to progress the CAN Bill all the way. In the four years since the campaign first began this is the greatest opportunity we have had to turn the CAN Bill into a CAN Act.
Let’s make history!
We must get 100+ supporting MPs attend the Second Reading debate on Friday 24 January. This is the only way we can move the CAN Bill onto the next stage of its journey into law—Committee Stage. Will you ask your MP to attend the Second Reading of the CAN Bill?
And please ask your church communities to step up to this moment. Here is some suggested text for your church newsletter.
What is the Climate and Nature Bill?
The Bill is the only proposed legislation before the UK Parliament that
- ensures a comprehensive and joined-up approach to the emergency
- acknowledges the full extent of the UK’s emissions and ecological footprint
- acknowledges its responsibility to ensure that it prevents and reverses damaging impacts, globally,
- so that the least developed nations still have the chance to develop sustainably.
The theology
Why should Christians support the Climate and Nature Bill?
Watch Revd. Vanessa Elston of Christian Climate Action in A Faith Response to the CEE Bill.
More about the Bill
The Climate and Nature Bill was developed with members of the successful ‘Big Ask’ campaign (a Friends of the Earth initiative which led to the Climate Change Act 2008), Power for People, as well as top scientists, economists, lawyers and academics – just take a look at this ‘hall of fame’!
The CAN Bill sets out a whole-of-government emergency plan to rapidly transition away from fossil fuels and reverse the destruction of nature. The Bill would:
- Provide a clear, joined-up plan—the crises in climate and nature are deeply intertwined, requiring a plan that considers both together.
- Reduce UK emissions in line with the Paris Agreement—ensuring that UK emissions are reduced rapidly, for the best chance of limiting warming to 1.5°C.
- Halt and reverse the decline in nature—setting nature measurably on the path to recovery by 2030, as agreed at COP15.
- Ensure that the UK takes responsibility for our overseas footprint—both emissions and ecological.
- Involve the public—giving people a say in finding a fair way forward through a ‘climate and nature assembly’.
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