The Climate and Nature Bill

LATEST NEWS: The Bill is adjourned to 11 July. Whether there will still be Parliamentary time for it to be heard again on that day remains to be seen. See above for Zero Hour’s statement. And here for more detail on what happened.

Thank you to all who prayed and campaigned for this Bill. We will continue to fight for our country to legislate for a safe and beautiful future.

For the next few weeks our attention is turned to our joint campaign to stop new oil and gas in the UK.

We will update this page with “next steps” soon.

Pick up the phone

Is your MP yet to confirm if they will be there to vote for the CAN Bill on 24 January? With only two weeks to go, the most effective way to take action is to call their office(s). 

Zero Hour’s new resource provides you with everything you need to ring your MP—and includes tips about what to say. This really does work, so please, if you can, call your MP this week!

Join the Vigil

Lent vigil – credit C Aid A. Sheppey

Friday 24th January, 9am – 11am, beside Carriage Gate outside Parliament, followed by Quaker Meeting for Worship with Quaker Support for Climate Action in Parliament Square at 11am

All are invited to join Christian Climate Action and the Quakers to pray for the passage of the Climate and Nature Bill as it’s second reading get’s under way.

Come when you can, stay as long as you can for a (mostly) silent prayer vigil. Bring a picture to hold of something that matters to you that the Bill will safeguard. If you are coming before work and want to arrive a bit earlier, the Zero Hour Team (who have been doing the webinars on the Bill with us) will be in Parliament Square from 8.30am. Do pop over and say hello to them – look for the banner with the bee.

 Let us know you are coming.

Can’t join in person? 

You can watch and pray from the comfort of your home or desk. 

 Watch the debate online – https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Commons

Get your church involved

And please ask your church communities to step up to this moment. Here is some suggested text for your church newsletter.

What is the Climate and Nature Bill?

This bill brings honesty and responsibility back into climate legislation.‘ Caroline Lucas

Want to campaign on something that tells the truth about the climate and nature emergency and how the UK should respond and show leadership? This is the page for you!

The Climate and Nature Bill is a plan for a new UK law that addresses the full extent of the climate and nature crisis in line with the most up-to-date science.

The Bill is the only proposed legislation before the UK Parliament that

  • ensures a comprehensive and joined-up approach to the emergency
  • acknowledges the full extent of the UK’s emissions and ecological footprint
  • acknowledges its responsibility to ensure that it prevents and reverses damaging impacts, globally,
  • so that the least developed nations still have the chance to develop sustainably. 

The theology

Why should Christians support the Climate and Nature Bill?

Watch Revd. Vanessa Elston of Christian Climate Action in A Faith Response to the CEE Bill.

More about the Bill

The Climate and Nature Bill was developed with members of the successful ‘Big Ask’ campaign (a Friends of the Earth initiative which led to the Climate Change Act 2008), Power for People, as well as top scientists, economists, lawyers and academics – just take a look at this ‘hall of fame’!

The CAN Bill sets out a whole-of-government emergency plan to rapidly transition away from fossil fuels and reverse the destruction of nature. The Bill would:

  1. Provide a clear, joined-up plan—the crises in climate and nature are deeply intertwined, requiring a plan that considers both together.
  2. Reduce UK emissions in line with the Paris Agreement—ensuring that UK emissions are reduced rapidly, for the best chance of limiting warming to 1.5°C.
  3. Halt and reverse the decline in nature—setting nature measurably on the path to recovery by 2030, as agreed at COP15.
  4. Ensure that the UK takes responsibility for our overseas footprint—both emissions and ecological.
  5. Involve the public—giving people a say in finding a fair way forward through a ‘climate and nature assembly’.

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Date: 22 January, 2025 | Category: Campaigns Uncategorized | Comments: 6


Comments on "The Climate and Nature Bill"

Edward Gildea:

June 3, 2023

I think we need more profound changes than the CEE bill, helpful though it is. We need to invent 'One Planet Economics' because our global neo-liberal economics requires multiple planets. There is no alternative to a Carbon Tax, which can be used to fun the new technologies and transition Companies must have a Triple Fiduciary Duty: to the Environment, to Humanity and to their Shareholders. No just be driven by maximising profit for shareholders. We need to replace the Crown's ultimate ownership of Land to a Commons Trust, which can hold landowners responsible for their Stewardship or abuse of it. We must place an increasing monetary value on Nature, as per the Dasgupta Report, so that destruction and degradation of nature becomes economically unviable.

Ruth Jarman:

March 28, 2023

Hi Isabelle, I'm finding out!

Isabelle Wood:

March 27, 2023

As with Alan above (23rd March) I search in vain for an update on this Bill.Can you help?Isabelle

Ruth Jarman:

March 3, 2023

thank you for the nudge! On it!

Alan Stephen Rebeiro:

March 3, 2023

HiJust looking through your website and noted this page on the Bill. It seems the Bill was reintroduced through the Lords and is subject to its third reading. Perhaps this webpage should be refreshed to ensure the reader is aware of the current position?Alan

Tessa:

July 4, 2022

Please see conclusion 4 from the Green Finance Observatory: https://greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/UK-Biodiversity-Unit-Market-2.0-1.pdfThank you for your consideration of the brief.


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