Climate Change E-Action

Climate change is happening, and causing disproportionate harm to the poorest and most vulnerable people on earth, despite the fact that these people have done least to cause it.

Everyone has to adapt to the effects of global warming, but we are lucky enough that adapting to climate change is rarely a matter of life or death. However, for millions of people in developing countries, climate change means going without food because of failed harvests, setting up home under plastic sheeting after floods, increased risk of deadly diseases such as malaria, or fleeing their communities because of intensifying conflict over fewer resources.

Stopping catastrophic climate change requires urgent action from both individuals and governments but, crucially, there is still time to make a difference. The Scottish Parliament is about to work on a Scottish Climate Change Bill. As one of the first countries to set binding, long-term carbon reduction targets, we will set an example to the rest of the world. It is vital that we get it right.

Please fill in the form below, and we will forward your details to your MSP – make sure that Scotland heeds SCIAF’s Global Warning and does its fair share to stop climate change undermining the progress that has been made in the fight against poverty.

You can also read our Guide to Climate Change.

Send your MSP a Global Warning
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Message *	To my local MSP, Climate change is happening, and causing disproportionate harm to the poorest and most vulnerable people on earth, despite the fact that these people have done least to cause it. I welcome the Scottish Climate Change Bill and the opportunity for Scotland to do its fair share in meeting this challenge. I ask you to support the inclusion of the following in the Bill: 1. Set appropriate targets: Commit to action that will prevent global temperatures increasing beyond 2ºC. On the basis of the most recent scientific evidence, this means a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by at least 3% each year, and a minimum reduction of 80% by 2050. 2. Ensure transparency and accountability: Produce an annual carbon budget and set a duty to report annually on its implementation. 3. Implement fair and sustainable emission-reduction strategies: Implement strategies that support sustainable development, and do not have adverse social or ecological effects on developing countries. Scotland can and must do its bit in preventing catastrophic climate change undermining any progress towards ending poverty. Please support a progressive Scottish Climate Change Bill. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours in renewed hope of a world free from poverty,
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Climate Change E-Action

Send your MSP a Global Warning