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Our website contains a variety of items dating back to 2001. You can use this archive to explore by year, campaign theme, specific campaign, and category. See also our new releases, our media appearances and our newsletters.

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Let your MP know that the real work on climate starts now

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20th Dec 2019

Now that the election is over, we need as many MPs as possible to roll up their sleeves and start the urgent work of tackling the crisis.

Fossil fuel company adverts must display climate change warnings (Client Earth)

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8th Dec 2019

We're in a climate emergency that fossil fuel companies helped create. Right now BP is flooding the public with adverts about its clean energy. The truth is that more than 96% of BP's annual spend is still on oil and gas. We think these ads are greenwashing.

Have your election candidates signed the pledge to fight climate breakdown?

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27th Nov 2019

See who’s standing for election in your area and whether they’ve taken the pledge

Ask your election candidates to sign our climate pledge

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23rd Nov 2019

Flooding. Fires. Famine. The climate emergency is real. And it’s already taking its toll.

Tell Party leaders to debate climate and nature on live TV

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12th Nov 2019

Time is running out to tackle the climate emergency. The new government will have to make climate action an absolute priority. So what would party leaders do for the environment if their party was in charge?

To: Party leaders – Take part in a national televised climate and nature debate

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5th Nov 2019

Alongside school-strike organisers UKSCN, we are calling on the leaders of the UK’s political parties to agree to a televised climate and nature debate ahead of the general election on 12th December.

Please ask your MP to sign the Trees and climate change Early Day Motion (EDM 31)

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23rd Oct 2019

Caroline Lucas and 5 other Members of Parliament have submitted an Early Day Motion calling on the Government to double UK tree cover to help fight the climate emergency.

Tell the UK government to take urgent climate action

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14th Oct 2019

Our leaders have let us down. But from school children going on strike, to the rise of clean, affordable community energy, millions of people across the world have recognised the climate emergency – and are doing something about it.

Join the Global Climate Strike (20th September 2019)

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24th Aug 2019

Young people have been leading the fight against the climate crisis – striking from school to demand the government takes urgent climate action. Now they’re calling on the adults to join them

Demand the EU & UN sanction Brazil to halt increased deforestation of the Amazon (Petition)

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The government of Brazil led by Bolsonaro favour the development of the Amazon rainforest over conservation, escalating deforestation. Deforestation threatens indigenous populations who live in the forest, loss of a precious and complex ecosystem and a vital carbon store that slows global warming.More details

Tell the new government not to frack it up

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1st Aug 2019

The government has changed but the climate emergency remains.

Declare a Climate Emergency in Bolton. (Change.org)

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30th Jul 2019

Leading researchers and scientists have now warned that we have less than 11 years to take action to tackle climate change, otherwise we face the gravest threats to our local and global environment – this includes increased flooding, droughts, extreme weather events and millions of displaced people. We must act urgently.

End opencast coal for good Campaign (Coal Action Network)

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29th Jul 2019

Don't give permission for any new opencast coal mines. Refuse Banks Group’s permission to extract 3 million tonnes of coal at Druridge Bay, Northumberland and revoke planning permission at Bradley, Pont Valley, County Durham.

No Fracking Northern Ireland (Friends of the Earth Ireland)

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28th Jul 2019

Fracking in Northern Ireland seems to be going under the radar since the ban in the Republic of Ireland - but the threat to the North is real and very close. There are 2 active planning applications for Fermanagh and Lough Neagh Basin. The public consultation ends on 31 July and WE SAY NO!

Tell GM Pension Fund Stop Funding Climate Destruction (19th July)

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3rd Jul 2019

GMPF continue to invest more than £1 Billion in fossil fuel companies - including nearly £700 million in companies like Shell and BP which spend millions of pounds in actively obstructing action against climate change.

We Need a Fossil Free European Investment Bank (350.org)

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13th Jun 2019

Our finance ministers are meeting this Friday 14 June as Governors of the European Investment Bank. This is a once-in-a-year event, and we must demand that they take a stand against the Bank’s dirty relationship with fossil fuels.

Sign up for #TheTimeIsNow mass climate lobby (26th June)

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4th Jun 2019

It’s no secret we’re facing a climate emergency. So why does it seem our MPs are the last to know? We need to tell them that it’s time to sit up and take notice. Time to act. Time to fight climate chaos.

Help create a full-time Climate Youth Champion!

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3rd May 2019

A message from Amelia, campaigner with Young Friends of the Earth Manchester and member of the Manchester Climate Change Board and Youth Board

Tell the government to protect the climate from coal

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14th Apr 2019

Climate-wrecking coal should be a thing of the past, right? But Communities Secretary James Brokenshire is about to decide whether to approve an opencast coalmine in Druridge Bay, Northumberland.

Say NO to weaker earthquake rules for fracking (Campaign to Protect Rural England)

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26th Feb 2019

The fracking industry is calling on the Prime Minister to weaken the rules on earthquakes. Write to your MP today to oppose this proposal

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