Your suggestions for climate new year’s resolutions in 2024
We launched our new year’s climate resolutions campaign at the COP28 Global Day of Action on 9th December in Edinburgh, and have gathered hundreds of suggestions from people across Scotland for new year’s climate resolutions for party leaders to commit to.
The effects of climate change are evident and affecting life in Scotland on a daily basis. I want a world my descendants (and yours) can live in: you are not doing enough.
Ruth
Climate action is greatly needed to address the current threats that climate change is having on our planet. I know many people in the west of Africa and I have seen how climate has impacted them and their wildlife over the past few years. The changes have been noticeable over a very short time period, lead by droughts and sea level rise. If we believe that we too will not be impacted by this, we are greatly mistaken.
Charlotte
You have been elected to a position of power and responsibility and to represent the people of Scotland. We are at a crucial point in time where we must take action in order to maintain the planets ability to support all human and natural life.
Neil
I'm scared. Scared for my children, animals, the wildlife everywhere and for the ocean. Everything is going wrong.....
Heather
Climate change is the most important issue confronting the people of our world today. Please take urgent action to deliver a climate plan that meets Scotland's legal climate targets.
Jocelyn
Some of our European neighbours are already addressing their dependency on an economic growth model built on fossil fuel. At the very least, we should be tabling these key questions for discussion across all activist spaces, regardless of who wins a two-horse race at the next election: how do we address our dependency on fossil fuel? How do we recover our shared commons at a local level? What would sufficiency look like? How might wealth be redefined within an ecologically sensitive community and by whom? How do we redistribute our shared wealth equitably, locally and within a global economic system which is de-colonial and de-commodified? Some of the answers are simple, are grounded in common sense and are already being implemented in more progressive contexts: - Public ownership of all services (health & social care, transport, housing, energy & water, education), job guarantee with universal basic income & living wage - Tax reform for high earners (top 20%) and a wealth tax (2%) on assets above £10 million - Increase member-led Trade Union (TU) membership using policy reform and revoke anti-TU legislation. Embed international and environmental solidarity policies - Sectoral transition planning to address growth dependencies across each sector - Implement ecologically sensitive regenerative local agriculture initiatives - Organise democratic, communitarian and regional citizen assemblies - Reprioritise and redevelop economic systems holistically for health, wellbeing & justice
Rhona
Thank you for keeping the importance of the climate change crisis in your plans for a fairer, decarbonised and cleaner Scotland.
Stephen
As a family we have been doing our bit to combat climate chaos: we installed solar panels over 10 years ago, I personally never fly now (the last time was to visit our daughter who was working in New Zealand for a year, in 2008), I always use public transport, walk a lot, and we keep our energy consumption to a minimum ... So we think it is time for those in power and the rich and those with power to make similar sacrifices for the future of the planet and grandchildren.
Arthur
