Lancashire & Cumbria COP26 Coalition

Part of national coalition organising around #COP26 talks Glasgow Nov 2021. Unions, faith groups, anti-fracking & environmental groups, XR & individuals

[Lancashire & Cumbria COP26 Coalition @Cop26LancsCBA]

Thanks to an entire anti-fracking movement for holding this additional methane-producing industry back - there's already too much in the atmosphere!

[ClientEarth @ClientEarth]

Methane is an unseen climate disaster. It is 80x more damaging than CO2 in the short term. Using a special camera, the #CutMethaneEU campaign found methane seeping into the atmosphere at 123 oil and gas sites across Europe. https://t.co/5auwd83tfR

[Tearfund Action @TearfundAct]

Planning to launch or re-launch your church’s plans for creation care? You can declare or recognise the climate emergency as a powerful way to bring people together and refocus hearts and minds: https://t.co/fRawgyGh3h

[Nanas UK @UK_Nanas]

Everything the government claims about targets and intentions for #COP26 - is seemingly just more hot air:

[Royal College of Psychiatrists @rcpsych]

@h_pinto13 @kirstenshukla @DazeAghaji @LynneJonespsych Even worse is government action to shut down protest aiming to highlight the threat of climate change. "It is a foolish man who removes his fire alarms and says there is no fire" #RCPsychIC

[Royal College of Psychiatrists @rcpsych]

@h_pinto13 @kirstenshukla @DazeAghaji @LynneJonespsych In Extinction Rebellion, @DazeAghaji found a community "willing to hold her in her grief", and made her realise this isn't just a climate issue, it's a human rights issue. Daze helped organise XR Youth, and made a space for young people to express their views. #RCPsychIC

[Royal College of Psychiatrists @rcpsych]

@h_pinto13 @kirstenshukla @DazeAghaji @LynneJonespsych "Everyone on this panel has decided to do something, and that's honourable," says @DazeAghaji. Daze grew up in poverty, next to an incinerator - and only much later realised this likely contributed to having asthma along with many in the same school class. #RCPsychIC

[Richard Dixon @Richard_Dixon]

Tories, Labour and Greens all support a moratorium on waste incinerator applications. What about SNP? –  - my @TheScotsman column on the need for a moratorium on new incinerators while the promised review is carried out, just as happened with fracking https://t.co/PW6QQQ0JCY

[Lancashire & Cumbria COP26 Coalition @Cop26LancsCBA]

THank you @YCCNetwork - you're doing an incredible job! See you in November #COP26

[Lancashire & Cumbria COP26 Coalition @Cop26LancsCBA]

And with a relationship like this, what incentive is there for those with the power to make change - to do so? You'd think the need to protect our vital life-support system would be enough but the short-term gains seem to win out for some in UK politics.

[Pascoe Sabido @pascoesabido]

UK politics awash with fossil fuel money = UK awash with fossil fuels
#fossilfreepolitics
https://t.co/AkkYogTgYD

[Lancashire & Cumbria COP26 Coalition @Cop26LancsCBA]

As #Genocide is legally recognised as a crime ...so too must #Ecocide. Some amazing work accomplished here:

[Stop Ecocide International @EcocideLaw]

The moment you've been waiting for! Today the expert drafting panel convened by the Stop Ecocide Foundation reveals the result of 6 months of legal deliberations: their proposed definition of #ECOCIDE as a fifth crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

[Lancashire & Cumbria COP26 Coalition @Cop26LancsCBA]

[Climate Change Committee (CCC) said planning decisions should be tested against target to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions.. But it did not support case that planning authorities should take account of carbon emissions from the use of oil produced onshore..]

[Green New Deal UK 🌍 @GreenNewDealUK]

Reports from two leading bodies on climate change have been published or leaked, and the warnings are clear. #IPCC #CCC

Our generation has a choice - to rise up and build a future worth fighting for, or watch it burn up in front of our eyes.
https://t.co/QBqny1M1eq

[Lancashire & Cumbria COP26 Coalition @Cop26LancsCBA]

Please do read on:

[☮️ David Swanson ☮️ @davidcnswanson]

We're inviting organizations to partner on this petiton to #COP26

https://t.co/PeIj2ZLh5R

@COP26 @MockCOP26 @Cop26Group @GLAagreement @COP26_XR @Glasgow4COP26 @ClimateByHarryG @Cop26LancsCBA

[Lancashire & Cumbria COP26 Coalition @Cop26LancsCBA]

@lakelandruth @NorthWestFOE @AllerdaleGreenP @ourlakes @CAfStweets @COP26_Coalition can add more but it is individuals and groups involved with: social justice, anti-fracking, Unions, anti-racism etc. Not a group in itself really - seems just to be for connecting, networking and ensuring we make maximum impact at #COP26 - early days :)

[Food & Water Watch @foodandwater]

Extremely normal political discourse: an elected official would rather change the moon's orbit (which is not actually possible) than agree to reduce emissions. https://t.co/9r8t2vjoFn

[Extinction Rebellion Scotland @ScotlandXr]

If only we could have predicted this, then...
Oh, wait. 😑
#USdraught #ClimateEmergency #unprecedented

[Lancashire & Cumbria COP26 Coalition @Cop26LancsCBA]

Welcoming #BrigantiiBorderMorris to the Lancashire & Cumbria COP26 Coalition

[Natalie Bennett @natalieben]

Dreadful news for UK farmers.

Imports of food with far lower environmental and #animalwelfare standards to arrive with deal.

From a nation that's still trashing its landscape on a spectacular scale
#ClimateEmergency #NatureCrisis
https://t.co/dGoZrMBHOs

[Craig Bennett @CraigBennett3]

THREAD: An excellent but deeply worrying report from @theCCCuk today on the 'climate risk' we are already 'locked into'

But sadly, the Govt seems to be in denial about need to 'climate proof' all future decision making

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https://t.co/Ureo2DS6BL