Campaigners Handover Petition Demanding Government Does More To Tackle Climate Change

Environmental campaigners have presented a petition to Harborough’s MP demanding the government does more to tackle climate change.

Signed by over 500 people, it was handed over to Neil O’Brien during a gathering by the Old Grammar School today, where people held placards calling for more to be done to deal with the issue.

Rev canon Brian Davis presents the petition to Neil O’Brien MP Pic: Gordon Blunt

The Sustainable Harborough Community group launched the petition during the Cop26 climate change summit last month, with people signing it on-line and during gatherings in the town centre.

Tim Claydon, chair of Market Harborough Climate Action Group, spoke to Hfm:

The petition reads:

We the undersigned, residents of your constituency call upon our Government :

– to end its support for coal, oil and gas, within the UK and elsewhere.

– to end climate-wrecking projects such as a new coal mine in Cumbria, a vast oil field in the Cambo Field off Shetland, and new oil drilling in Surrey.

– to stop funding fossil fuel developments around the world, including a planned gas mega-project in Mozambique.

– to support justice for those who live in parts of the world where they are most affected by the climate crisis, and yet have done least to cause it.

– to lead by example – world leaders will not listen to a government that does not practice what it preaches!”