If you are a Green Liberal Democrat and a Trade Unionist you may wish to accept the invitation below to attend the launch of TUCAN - the Trade Union Clean Air Network - on Wednesday 6th February at 2.00pm. Air Pollution has been described as a Public Health Emergency that affects every sity and most, if not every, workplace. It is not only a Trade Union issue it is an issue for everyone. We should not forget that Air Pollution is associated with 40,000 premature deaths each year in the UK.
After leaving school Phillip took a degree in Agricultural Botany at Aberdeen followed by a PhD on oilseed rape, agronomy and plant breeding at Newcastle University.
Could you contribute to a study day on being greener in beautiful Beverley on March 30th 2019? Speakers currently booked will be discussing the Circular Economy; Solar PV and battery storage; following a vegan diet; plastics and how to make an eco bricks, individual responsibility for lifestyle changes; EcoChurch etc. There will be a vegan lunch.
Stall-holders include Friends of the Earth, A Rocha/Climate Stewards/Eco Church, Green Christian, Friends of the Earth; Tropic vegan make-up, EcoShed green products and a company which makes plastic alternatives. It would be fabulous is the Green LibDems could also have a stall or be involved in some way - the local Green Party is knocking at the door!
If you are keen to be involved especially if you could fly the flag for Green LibDems, please Contact Linda Johnson lindajanejohnson@gmail.com.
As Liberal Democrats and Green Liberal Democrats we are all aware that Climate Change is the number one issue facing humanity. The IPCC Report in October 2018 made it very clear that we only have twelve years left to radically alter our impact on the planet to limit the climate change dangers of extreme weather, drought, floods and poverty.
Inevitably Air Pollution is linked to climate change most obviously through the burning of fossil fuels to power cars, planes, buses, motorbikes and other forms of transport. Air Pollution is not a new problem it has been with us for decades, you only have to read about the reasons for the introduction of the original Clean Air Act in 1956 to know that (Life before the Clean Air Act - your memories and pictures: The Guardian 05/07/16 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/05/life-before-the-clean-air-act-your-memories-and-pictures
It is clear that developing an unconventional oil and gas industry in the UK will result in unacceptable negative impacts on local communities, local democracy, energy security, jobs, the climate, health and the environment, and that the government should instead be urgently developing an energy policy and infrastructure that provides the clean renewable energy future that our country - and the planet - so desperately needs.
In October there was a very interesting briefing by UNCTAD of its report on Debt Vulnerabilities in Developing Countries: "A New Debt Trap? and its Trade and Development report." It was the first of these reports that interested me most due to its coverage on the alarming trends in debt and extent of the debt crisis.
GLDNEWS November 2018 Protest: Together for Climate Justice - Saturday 1st December 2018
http://grn.lib.dm/a417KS
Join The Green Liberal Democrats: We meet from 11:45 near Great
Portland Street tube station (Met & Circle), where there is a pub, a
Pizza express and shelter. It is only about 200 metres east of the
Regents Park station (Bakerloo).
Please bring your GLD banner from the Brexit demo if you still have it.
Background: The recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPPC) is a landmark for our planet; setting out just
what is at stake if we breach 1.5°C of Global warming.
Maps, speakers and more at: http://grn.lib.dm/a417KS
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Volunteers please for Beverly Green Day (Yorkshire) 30 March 2019
http://grn.lib.dm/e4MK
GLD NOTTINGHAM CONFERENCE Saturday 15th June 2019
http://greenlibdems.org.uk/gldconf2019
We need bold action on climate change says Sir Ed Davey MP
http://grn.lib.dm/a617M0
Heathrow 3rd Runway motion to Southwark Council by Cllr Graham Neale:
http://grn.lib.dm/a217Mk
A choice of evils: Landfill vs Burning Refuse by Julian Hawkins
http://grn.lib.dm/a417LW
Bristol Council declare a Climate Emergency (Peter Bruce)
http://grn.lib.dm/a617K4
Greening the Workplace by Kevin Daws
http://grn.lib.dm/a117LB
Liberal Democrat Trade Unionists call for action on Climate Change
http://grn.lib.dm/a517LC
Model Motion for Trade Unions to affiliate to the Campaign Against
Climate Change http://grn.lib.dm/a817LB
The FrackFree United Declaration
http://grn.lib.dm/a717KR
Climate Emergency: Jane Brophy's speech to Trafford Council
http://grn.lib.dm/a517MB
Fracking: Jane Brophy's speech to Trafford Council
http://grn.lib.dm/a217MC
Badger Culling: Jane Brophy's speech to Trafford Council on
http://grn.lib.dm/a817Mz
Joint statement from Lib Dems, Green Party, SNP and Plaid Cymru on
Barnier meeting
http://grn.lib.dm/a217JN
Climate Change Armistice 100 legacy : Mary Page declares a Climate Emergency
http://grn.lib.dm/a817LZ
Rugby Borough Council Air Quality Annual Status Report
http://grn.lib.dm/a117JN
Southampton City Council Clean Air Zone consultation response
http://grn.lib.dm/a517M0
Banking on Climate Change, Fossil Fuels report 2018.
http://grn.lib.dm/a017MD
Brexit Welter: opinion by George Miles
http://grn.lib.dm/a917MC
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enables you to use our logos with your news and campaigning material and
access GLD members locally who might help you in your area.
https://greenlibdems.org.uk/en/page/candidate-accreditation
YOUTH OFFICER: Green activists in the Liberal Democrats are looking for
a volunteer Youth Officer. We're looking for keen green-minded members
to help us publicise the vacancy and advise the GLD Exec on how best to
work with young people.
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This ninth annual fossil fuel finance report card grades banks
on their policy commitments regarding extreme fossil fuel
financing and calculates their financing for these fuels from
2015 to 2017.
