Raise your voice
Action to tackle climate change has to happen both at an individual level and at national political and global levels.
Make sure that your voice is heard as a citizen and as a consumer by writing to local councilors, MPs, politicians and businesses to ensure they are aware of the changes that you would like to see in the world. Ultimately, if enough people are saying similar things, they will listen.
Write individual letters or take part in organized campaigns or online petitions, in line with your personal values.
Here are a few ideas:
Ask your MP to support the Climate & Nature Bill
The Climate and Nature Bill requires urgent action to reduce the negative impacts that human activities have had on the health of soil and biodiversity and restore and enhance nature, so that it wildlife and ecosystems can thrive. When they are healthy, living systems such as forests, peat bogs, salt marshes and the sea bed, support life and absorb carbon from the atmosphere, which can help tackle the climate emergency too. The Bill also outlines new targets for the UK to reduce its real fair share of carbon emissions, in line with the spirit of the Paris Agreement.
For the Bill to succeed it will require cross-party support and all MPs to unite behind it. Could you meet with, or write to, your MP to ask them to support the Bill?
Visit the Climate & Nature Bill website
Sign the petition calling on governments to make ecocide an international crime
The principle of putting planet over profit is something that the late lawyer, Polly Higgins, devoted her life to, in advocating for a law against ecocide.
Establishing ecocide – defined as serious damage or destruction of the natural world – as an international crime, would mean that people who commission projects causing such damage, eg chief executives or government ministers, would be legally responsible for the harm caused to others. It would be akin to other atrocities, such as genocide and war crimes. This would create one simple law that would have the power to protect the Earth.
You can read more about the Stop Ecocide campaign and sign the petition to call for an international crime of ecocide here.