Take Action - Current PetitionS & Campaigns
We have rounded up national and local campaigns that, in a couple of minutes, you can sign or help along.
Have a tiny bit more time and want to voice your opinion more directly?
Email you local MP and remember to include your address and postcode. The more emails they get around particular issues, the more notice they have to take.
North Devon: Selaine Saxby - selaine.saxby.mp@parliament.uk
Torridge District Council: Geoffrey Cox - coxg@parliament.uk
Current national and local campaigns
THE CLIMATE & ECOLOGY BILL
Zero Hour is the campaign for the Climate and Ecology Bill (formerly the CEE Bill) – a plan for a new UK law that addresses the full extent of the climate and nature crisis in line with the most up-to-date science. The Bill is the only proposed legislation before the UK Parliament that ensures a comprehensive and joined-up approach to the emergency.
⏰ From 2 minutes to 10 minutes of your time, there are many ways which you as individuals can help.
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STOP ECOCIDE
(n) “Destruction of the natural environment by deliberate or negligent human action”
Sign the open letter for an Ecocide law to protect and support our relationship with the ocean.
Recognising those worst harms - “ecocide” - in international criminal law sets a preventive and necessary parameter to ensure that human activity stays within safe boundaries. Such a law will create accountability at the highest levels of decision-making in government and industry, encouraging due diligence and strongly reinforcing existing regulations pertaining to ocean protection.
Find out more and sign the letter
#CHOOSELOOSE
Everyday Plastic are calling for all UK supermarkets to remove plastic packaging from five fruit & veg products so shoppers can #ChooseLoose.
Sign the Petition
BAN DISPOSABLE BBQS
Join the ongoing campaign to get the use of disposable bbq’s in open countryside and moorland banned and made illegal. Locally, a disposable BBQ was responsible for the huge devastating fire on Baggy Point last summer.
Sign the Petition
NATURE RECOVERY DECLARATION
Aligning with the Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan and the Prime Minister’s pledge for 30% of the UK land to be protected by 2030. Support the North Devon Biosphere's plan to restore and protect our county's nature rich land and marine environments.
Sign the Declaration
#STOPROSEBANK
The UK government has just approved Rosebank, the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK.
With this decision, the government is siding with oil and gas giants over a liveable future for all, whether that’s a habitable planet or not having to choose between heating and eating. But the past year has taught us that the UK government will back down, will u-turn, will bend to the will of the people if enough of us fight back.
And that’s exactly what we’re going to do. There's a lot to do. Keep up with what’s next in the fight, and the different ways we can take action together
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BAN DISPOSBALE VAPES
Disposable vapes are littering our communities, leaking chemicals into the environment and endangering local wildlife.Two disposable vapes are thrown away every second in the UK – that’s 1.3 million a week!
Over 40 countries have already banned vapes in some way. Three quarters of Brits think they should be banned.
Sign the Green Peace Petition
STOP DEEP-SEA MINING
Join countries around the world in supporting a global moratorium on deep-sea mining. Covering around 65 per cent of our planet, the deep sea contains some of the last truly pristine places on Earth. More than 5,000 new species have recently been discovered living in an area of the seabed considered a hot spot for deep sea mining. Check out Blue Marine foundation blog page to read why this potential devastating industry needs to be paused.
Sign the Government Petition