Salisbury Friends of the Earth

Friends of the Earth has begun an online virtual march in support of its Climate Change campaign. To join you submit a short video of yourself which will be sent to your MP.

Public pressure is needed now as the government moves forward on its draft Climate Change Bill. The public consultation on it is over and there is now a clear challenge to convince the government on these three points:

* include international aviation and shipping
* agree to annual targets
* set an 80% reduction target for 2050

UPDATE - following the local elections, the review process has restarted and the council have conducted a survey showing strong local concern about climate change.
Read more at the SDC website

Salisbury District Council currently has no climate change policy, Salisbury Friends of the Earth can reveal, and has delayed a review which was intended to make proposals for reducing carbon emissions locally.

Legislators from twenty of the world's major countries have agreed in outline a new framework which could allow further progress to halt global greenhouse gas emissions. The agreement is not yet binding, but will be considered by the G8 leaders when they meet in June 2007.

The need for international commitments beyond the Kyoto targets up to 2012 is increasingly urgent, but it now seems the logjam may have been broken, with United States political opinion finally starting to shift and also major developing economies such as China and Brazil willing to discuss limits on future emissions.