{"id":542163,"date":"2010-04-23T05:41:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T09:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/applications\/blogs\/pressoffice\/?p=12342"},"modified":"2010-04-23T05:41:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T09:41:52","slug":"asking-the-climate-question-in-the-north-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542163","title":{"rendered":"Asking the climate question in the North West"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s more to this election than TV debates. Tristan finds out more about the <\/em>election meetings <\/em>Oxfam have been organising around the country to “ask the climate question”.<\/em><\/p>\n

In an election in which a series of historic leadership debates <\/a>takes place on TV, it could be easy to think they were the only events that mattered. That\u2019s not the case. On the 21st April Oxfam hosted the hustings (political meetings between candidates and voters) in the South Ribble Banqueting Hall in Lancashire.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Following its success, next week on the 28th we\u2019re hosting another one, this time in Bury North, at the Fusilier Museum in Bury itself. These debates challenge parliamentary candidates in two of the country\u2019s most closely fought constituencies to explain where they stand on the issue of Climate Change and could potentially prove crucial come May 6th.<\/p>\n

These are just two of a series of events taking place across the country as part of the national \u2018Ask the Climate Question<\/a>\u2019 Campaign. Supported by ten different environmental and development Non Government Organisations (NGOs)\u00a0and charities, it aims to make climate change an election issue and ensure our next government, whichever party gets into power, is fully committed to UK emissions reductions and a \u2018fair\u2019 and \u2018adequate\u2019 international agreement on climate change.<\/p>\n

As you might have guessed from the campaign\u2019s name, it asks voters to join in by simply \u2018Asking the Climate Question\u2019 to their local candidates, be it on the doorstep, at a local hustings or even in writing. Its both an easy and effective way to raise a crucially important issue and draw attention to what is arguably the greatest threat to the world\u2019s poor.<\/p>\n

As a self-confessed politics geek with a passion for tackling climate change it\u2019s been a joy to be charged with helping organise the debates in the North West and come Wednesday 28th I\u2019ll be there in Bury climate change question to hand and listening carefully.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Oxfam’s work on climate change<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s more to this election than TV debates. Tristan finds out more about the election meetings Oxfam have been organising around the country to “ask the climate question”. In an election in which a series of historic leadership debates takes place on TV, it could be easy to think they were the only events that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}