Big Climate Connection lobby

by Fiona Montgomery

It’s time to lobby MPs on climate change in November. Stop Climate Chaos Scotland is organising the Scottish part of the Big Climate Connection lobby on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 November.

It takes place three weeks before the UN Climate Talks in Cancun, Mexico, so we can make sure our MPs push for key policies that will ensure there is significant progress at Cancun towards a fair, ambitious and binding global climate deal.

UNISON Scotland is also helping SCCS promote its 10-point manifesto for the Scottish Parliament elections next year. SCCS coalition members, including UNISON, will be taking this to the autumn party conferences.

The manifesto ‘asks’ include calls for: a green procurement bill; action on a Just Transition to a low-carbon economy; a strategic climate fund for public bodies and the integration of health and climate change policies.

Check out the SCCS and UNISON Scotland green workplace websites for the latest on the Big Climate Connection and for information about coming E-actions supporting the manifesto and calling on the Scottish Government to strengthen the public bodies climate change duty. www.stopclimatechaos.org/scotland

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