It’s time to #PriceOutPollution
We’ve spent the last tHREE years campaigning for effective policies that can make polluters pay for the damage they are doing to the environment, and deliver 'net zero' at a price society can afford. Learn more about our campaigns below.
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lead the charge.
To get to ‘net zero’ and ensure a truly green recovery from COVID-19, the UK needs to account for the true costs of fossil fuel pollution. The best way to do this? By implementing a stronger, fairer and more consistent system of carbon pricing across the UK economy.
We made the case for replacing layers of pricing complexity with a simple carbon charge that recycles revenue back to people and planet in our gov.uk petition. The petition was signed by 108,000 members of the public and triggered a debate in Parliament, which was held on the first day of COP26 and heard contributions from a cross-party section of MPs.
You can read more about the petition campaign - and download our campaign artwork - below.
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PRICE POLLUTION AROUND THE WORLD.
To have any chance of achieving the temperature targets laid out in the Paris Agreement, we need to ensure that all countries are doing everything they can to curb the production of greenhouse gas emissions. But when it comes to pricing pollution, consensus has been difficult to achieve.
That’s why we coalesced over 50 high-profile signatories to our COP26 Carbon Pricing Declaration, which called on the UK Government to use their presidency over COP26 to raise ambition abroad, and lead diplomatic efforts to negotiate global carbon pricing agreements. This includes them leading multilateral engagement on Border Carbon Adjustments (BCAs).
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STRONGER CLIMATE protections.
The short-term cycles of government can be a real problem when it comes to addressing climate change. The UK has one of the strongest climate laws in the world (the Climate Change Act of 2008), but we’ve still been unable to prevent successive governments from taking decisions that damage our progress on environmental issues, including carbon pricing.
For climate policy to be truly effective, we need to prevent politicians from being able to swerve their commitments. That’s why we want to strengthen climate protections, to ensure that all government decision-making is conducted with our legislated net zero target in mind.