Our planet is in crisis, balanced on a knife-edge at the point of no return. Due to man-made climate change, global temperatures are soaring, the polar ice caps are melting faster than ever before, and whole nations are already facing the existential crisis of rising sea levels and extreme weather. Whole species of animals are being wiped out month by month, and global famine is a very real threat. At our recent conference in Bournemouth, our Party committed to working with our European partners to combat the effects of climate change.
There is something that the architects of Brexit are desperately trying to distract us from.
Our planet is in crisis, balanced on a knife-edge at the point of no return.
This is something that we can only tackle if we all work together, collaborating with every single nation across the globe. No one will be unaffected, but, just like with Brexit, the poorest in society will suffer first and suffer most deeply.
We need to take action now. The British government together with its European partners needs to move much faster and be much more ambitious in the steps it is taking to prevent the largest global crisis the world has ever faced. And as President Trump unpicks environmental protections one by one, harming the whole world in the process, the UK and Europe need to take centre stage as a global leader on tackling man-made climate change.
That's why, at the Liberal Democrat Autumn Conference in Bournemouth, our members have just backed radical action to cut carbon emissions by 75% in the next 10 years.
The government needs to move much faster and be much more ambitious
The motion we have just passed commits us to:
We owe it to future generations to leave them a habitable planet.
Full details of our motion are found on the party's website here
If we don’t take action immediately, the effects of climate change will destroy society as we know it in our own and our children’s lifetimes.
Join us and support the Liberal Democrats plan to Revoke Article 50, stay in the European Union, and improve the environment here.