Six months have passed since the Copenhagen climate change talks. They were billed as our best hope for a better, fairer and safer world. But this ‘decision-time’ failed to result in any ambitious or binding decisions.

Instead there is stalling on the world stage (but no stalling of our CO² emissions or their deadly impact on the world’s poorest families).

So what now?

It’s certainly not time to give up. If the families living in the high hills of Nepal, the river embankments of Bangladesh or the desert plains of Kenya are to survive and adapt, we can’t give up.

Here in the UK, the new Parliament means it’s time to “pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and start all over again“.

 232 new MPs – that’s 232 decision-makers who we need to convince that the impacts of climate change are unjust but not inevitable.

 At Practical Action, we’ll be drawing attention to the impact of climate change on poor communities and calling for action, now. And you have a crucial role to play too – millions of women and men will be counting on you.

Helen Marsh

Campaigner

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