MPs and Local Carbon Budgets

2 August 2010

We're calling for legislation for local carbon budgets in the Energy Bill to drive a huge increase in local action to tackle climate change.

If you can do one thing to help the campaign, please contact your MP. You can:

• Call their constituency office to speak to the MP directly
• Write them a letter or an email
• Visit them in person at one of their surgeries (usually on a Friday or Saturday)

The local carbon budgets campaign messages, campaign introduction and local carbon budgets briefing below outline everything you will need to say to your MP.

The key thing is to ask him or her to write to Energy Secretary Chris Huhne calling for local carbon budgets to be introduced in this session of Parliament.

Letters

Your group members can sign this letter to your respective MPs. You can also print off copies for members of the public to sign. Alternatively, we can print some and send them to you.

When you've got them signed, please send them to us and we'll return them to you to present to your MP.

• Letter to MPs about local carbon budgets (PDF version)
• Letter to MPs about local carbon budgets (RTF version)

Petition

If you'd prefer to get people to sign a petition rather than individual letters to your MP, then you can use this template instead:

Petition to your MP on local carbon budgets

Useful information

Campaign Introduction
A two-side introduction to the Get Serious About CO2 campaign and local carbon budgets.

Local carbon budgets briefing
Everything you need to know about local carbon budgets and how they would work.

Talking to the public about local carbon budgets
How to talk to members of the public about local carbon budgets - key messages.

Powerpoint presentation
A powerpoint presentation on the Get Serious About CO2 campaign, with a focus on local carbon budgets.

Timeline and list of resources
A timeline for the campaign, and list of the key local carbon budgets resources.