COP26 - less than a week away

Excitement - or concern (and trepidation!)

As we get closer to COP26, I feel both a sense of excitement that this major global conference is about to happen, in our backyard, as it were … and a real sense of concern and disappointment that we are going to be let down again by an incompetent and bungling Government. Not to mention trepidation at the threat of strike action by rail and bus employees!

This afternoon, Cumbrian MP Tim Farron has written to the President of the COP26 climate conference, Alok Sharma, urging him to block plans for a new coal mine in Cumbria.

According to a report in the Times at the weekend, Mr Sharma was said to be "apoplectic" with cabinet colleague Robert Jenrick, the Communities Secretary, after he gave the green light to the coal mine earlier this month.

There are now less than 100 days until COP26.

That's a huge climate summit attended by leaders from across the globe, hosted right here in the UK. It's a chance for the UK to show real leadership in tackling the climate crisis - but Boris Johnson won't take it seriously.

The Liberal Democrats have launched a Green Recovery Plan.

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Special Interest Group for Carbon Tax

Convenors Stewart Reddaway & Tahir Maher

Zoom links will be circulated close to the meeting dates, but please contact the convenors to express your interest in being part of the group.

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Special Interest Group for Doubling Nature

Convenors Cllr Pippa Heylings & Jason Billin

14 September - date subject to change due to guest speaker's availability...

Improving biodiversity by challenging the impoverishment of our declining natural economy.

The group will look at how significant increases in biodiversity might be reached by commitments to `Double Nature` both by government action at a national level, but also, significantly, by actions that can and should be taken by local authorities and community groups in particular.

Changing the Preamble for People and Planet

We hope to see many of our GLD family at the virtual conference this coming weekend and we have four fringe meetings to whet your political appetite. The fringes are loosely grouped under the strapline "For People and Planet" and there is a conscious element of addressing the issue of `Wellbeing` this year too. Indeed, our second fringe meeting, which is on Saturday evening, will address Wellbeing as its central goal, with our former MEP, Councillor Jane Brophy, Chairing the session from 17.35 pm onwards.

How to Cut Carbon Emissions Quickly and Effectively

Fossil fuels have delivered enormous benefits to humanity. Now, however, scientists are saying that the earth can't absorb much more of the carbon dioxide that fossil fuels produce.
The scientists can't be exact, but the remaining carbon budget will be used up in less than 10 years at the current rate of consumption.