Planet
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Challenging the Government’s hot air over climate change
Today we hold our final district council meeting before the local elections, and I’m supporting a motion backing the Climate and Ecology Emergency Bill, which asks our MP to support the bill through parliament. The measures proposed in this bill, if passed into law, would give us a real chance of averting catastrophic climate change […]
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All talk and no action on energy
AS a member of Gloucestershire Climate Action Network I met Neil Carmichael twice this year to discuss measures to combat climate change, locally and nationally. He told us he supported renewable energy, and mentioned developing carbon capture and community energy schemes as good things. Within months the government had axed support for both of these. […]