Shropshire Climate Action
Cutting Carbon - Restoring Nature - Saving Money
Local lobbying
Why lobby?
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Making climate-friendly personal choices is important.
However, we know that behavioural changes by individuals and their local communities cannot reduce carbon emissions on the scale scientists tell us is crucial to avoid catastrophic climate change.
National and Local Government and businesses must take action too.
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How to lobby
Take a look at Market Drayton Climate Action’s dedicated Lobbying section on their website for inspiration, suggested content and contacts on who to lobby by topic.
Every month their members lobby those who can make changes at scale. This may be:
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companies extracting fossil fuels
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the banks and pension funds who invest in them
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and other organisations with large carbon footprints.
You can also write directly to government leaders and potential leaders, nationally and regionally, holding them to account for climate promises broken and demanding the serious, strong actions we expect from them.
Join the local lobbying network
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Climate and environment groups across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin are working together to share their lobbying efforts.
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If you would like to be added to the What’s App group set up for this purpose, please email contact@shropshireclimateaction.org to request this. This will require you to provide your mobile phone number.
Shrewsbury North West Relief Road
A key lobbying issue in Shropshire is the Shrewsbury North West Relief Road (NWRR)
The decision to proceed with the construction of the NWRR ignores both expert and popular objections. It will cancel out the carbon saving initiatives we need to reach net zero carbon. The proposal is both out of date and ecologically destructive.
Read more about the objections to the NWRR by clicking the button below:
You can help the Climate and Nature Bill by writing to your local MP.
The CAN website helps people create letters:
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to our local MPs who are already supporters of the CAN Bill (Julia Buckley, Labour, Shrewsbury and Helen Morgan, Lib Dem, North Shropshire)
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and local MPs that have not yet agreed to support it (Mark Pritchard, Conservative, The Wrekin, Stuart Anderson, Conservative, South Shropshire, Shaun Davies, Labour, Telford).
Groups that want to get more involved in the CAN campaign can use this pack of resources which has lots of ideas, including template press releases, downloadable materials and a pack of social media resources.
Write to your MP
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You can also write to your local MP to demand action in relation to climate change policies.
Click here and type in your postcode to find your MP. Or use the details below to contact your MP. You can call, email or write to them. As long as you are within their constituency they are obligated to respond.
