Big Ask Campaign

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The Big Ask is a campaign by Friends of the Earth calling for a new climate change law in the United Kingdom and 15 other EU member states.^[1] The United Kingdom Government announced the introduction of the Climate Change Bill in the Queen's Speech on November 15, 2006. This was as a result of 130,000 people across the country asking their MP to do more about climate change.^{[citation needed]}

1 UK Climate Change Bill
2 Draft bill
3 Big Ask Web March
4 References

[edit] UK Climate Change Bill

This law is intended to tackle the main cause of climate change — emissions of carbon dioxide gas.

The law that Friends of the Earth are calling for would require the UK Government to cut the amounts of carbon dioxide being released by 3% year on year.

The Big Ask reasoning is:^[2]

All the major political parties say climate change is the biggest threat we face
They all have ambitious targets for cutting carbon dioxide (20% by 2010, 60% by 2050)
Yet emissions of carbon dioxide in the UK keep on rising
The UK needs to show leadership in showing that climate change can be tackled
The Climate Change Bill is the best way of doing this

[edit] Draft bill

The Government has now produced a Draft Climate Change Bill with a closing date for responses on 12 June 2007. ^[3] The Big Ask Campaign has entered its next stage and is campaigning to make the Bill stronger than the Draft Bill. People are being asked to lobby their MPs again to ask them to support a Bill that will:

reduce emissions every year so the UK reaches a target of at least 80% cuts by 2050
include annual targets so politicians can't blame preceding Governments for missed targets
include emissions from international aviation and shipping