Great to have the opportunity to discuss sustainability in local govt with @LambethLabour's @RezinaChowdhury - lots of really interesting ideas covered around active transport, green public spaces, biodiversity and more! Thank you to Rezina for coming to speak with us
Lambeth's council ambitious action on sustainability is an example of the difference Labour in power can make - read about the Kerbside Strategy here
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Really looking forward to our Environment Network event next week with @RezinaChowdhury of Lambeth Council - all about sustainability in local government 🌿♻️
Check it out and sign up here -> youngfabians.org.uk/councils…@EnvironmentYF
Really looking forward to our Environment Network event next week with @RezinaChowdhury of Lambeth Council - all about sustainability in local government 🌿♻️
Check it out and sign up here -> youngfabians.org.uk/councils…@EnvironmentYF
Our new Women's Officer @emraylot wrote this piece last week for the YF Blog explaining why gender equity is critical to climate action - you can read it here 👇
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The pace & scale of #climateaction is insufficient to tackle #climatechange.
In 2018, #IPCC highlighted the scale of the challenge required to keep warming to 1.5°C. 5 years on, the Synthesis Report shows that the challenge has become even greater.
👉 bit.ly/SRYRpt23
🚨 NEW: Net zero policy tracker
🌱 The government has announced policies to cover 87% of all emissions reductions needed between 2028 & 2032 to meet its own #NetZero targets.
❌ But only 28% of these have policy frameworks in place for delivery 👉 bit.ly/3Fy1goF
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ALT Graph showing the current policy landscape across the power, industry, heat and buildings, transport, agriculture and land use, waste and greenhouse gas removal sectors.
As @Loganmach says, whilst Scotland needs a Deposit Return Scheme (as does the rest of the UK), the Scottish Government are going about it in a wrongheaded way that risks doing more harm than good
On the blog - @scotlandyf member @Loganmach explains why the Scottish Green's Deposit Return Scheme risks damaging Scottish business 🏴♻️
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The latest edition of Antics is fantastic – thanks to @jimmysergi_ for his hard work.
Great to see pieces from @BekenClark on how Labour can protect and restore nature, and from Tom Roberts on the terrible legacy of Cameron’s “cut the green crap” edict
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The @IPCC_CH Synthesis Report is a timely reminder to us all of what is at stake if we fail to take action on #climatechange
But it is also a reminder that we can implement the policies needed to make the transition to #NetZero – if we act now 1/3
ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/
The @EnvironmentYF is committed to showing how we can do so – our 2020 Climate Change Accountability pamphlet demonstrated ways to hold policymakers to account in taking action 2/3
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Our members will continue to develop and promote their ideas to take action, including through our developing pamphlet on land use/ownership, an area of emissions where UK policy falls particularly short 3/3
On the blog - Continuing our IWD 2023 series, @mahamsaleeem analyses the way in which the burden of unpaid labour falls heaviest on women.
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In October last year we produced a series of blog posts outlining what local authorities can do for climate and nature, to help meet our urgent net-zero targets - here they are in a 🧵1/7
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Many of these ideas are already in action and have been shown to work - what the APPG's report highlights is that there is so much more government can do to empower communities and councils to take transformative action. 6/7
The next Labour government 🌹should marry its ambitious plans for devolution and net zero and empower local areas to take the further actions needed to deal with the #ClimateCrisis, by leading as an active, investing government, but also releasing power to communities 7/7