People we work with around the globe are feeling the effect of more frequent and more destructive natural disasters. Their lives and livelihoods are being hit by the changing climate, and their efforts to escape poverty are being frustrated.
Following the failure of world leaders to agree a global climate deal in Copenhagen, the next UK government must play a leading role in revived international negotiations – and must ensure the EU does the same.
We are now weeks away from an election, and we need climate to be a top priority of the next UK Government, whoever they are. To ensure this Oxfam has teamed up with some of the UK’s biggest environmental and development charities to arrange Climate Question Time style events with local candidates in the top 51 marginal constituencies.
Our aim is very simply to shout the loudest about climate change where the parties are listening the hardest.
If there’s a hustings happening near you and you want to ask the climate question then you might want to take a look at some of our suggestions below:
What will you and your party do to…
Take a leading role in making sure that the international climate change negotiations secure a fair, ambitious and binding deal? (One that keeps global temperatures below 2 degrees Centigrade and turns the so-far antagonistic negotiations into collaborative engagement).
Deliver the UK’s fair share of the promised $30bn in short term financing to help poor countries adapt to climate impact and curb emissions? (Promised in 2009 Copenhagen Accord over 3 years, 2010 to 2012).
Show international leadership on generating the new finance needed to help developing countries curb emissions and adapt to climate change (Over and above the $100bn per year agreed by rich countries at Copenhagen).
It would be great to hear back from you about the responses you get – contact me on [email protected]