Liberal Democrats have committed to ambitious plans for fight against our climate crisis.
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.
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 government 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, we 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 backed radical action to cut carbon emissions by 75% in the next 10 years.
The Liberal Democrats will:
- Empower councils and give them the resources to reduce emissions and set up green projects in a way that makes sense in their own communities
- Plant 60 million trees a year, every year, which is one tree for every person in the UK
- Convert rail networks to ultra-low-emission technology (electric or hydrogen) by 2035
- Ban non-recyclable single-use plastics within three years
- and a whole lot more!
There’s no time for wringing our hands when it comes to the climate crisis. Our new policy lays out a credible plan for fast, effective action to beat global heating.
Find out more here.