The Climate and Nature Bill

Come to our Zoom call about this Bill on 4 December!

LATEST NEWS: Dr Roz Savage MBE, Liberal Democrat MP for South Cotswolds, has decided to select the Climate and Nature Bill as her ‘ballot bill’ of choice—which she will now champion in the House of Commons.

And this is where it gets exciting—having topped the ballot, Roz Savage MP has a chance to progress the CAN Bill all the way. In the four years since the campaign first began this is the greatest opportunity we have had to turn the CAN Bill into a CAN Act.

Let’s make history!

We must get 100+ supporting MPs attend the Second Reading debate on Friday 24 January. This is the only way we can move the CAN Bill onto the next stage of its journey into law—Committee Stage. Will you ask your MP to attend the Second Reading of the CAN Bill?

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

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!

What is the Climate and Nature Bill?

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’.

HELP MAKE IT HAPPEN


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Author: Ruth Jarman | Date: 12 October, 2024 | Category: Action Climate Emergency | 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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