NGOs unite on climate change

Eighteen campaign groups have joined forces this week to create the largest ever UK-based climate change coalition, in a move that aims to ‘mobilise millions’ on the controversial issue. Known as ‘STOP CLIMATE CHAOS’, the new coalition will campaign for the UK government to deliver vast reductions in the country’s carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions and commit to more progressive targets. Other aims of the group include lobbying for effective investment into renewable technologies and assisting the developing world on global warming action.

Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, WWF, RSPB and Tearfund are among the groups involved, with several others set to join. The group’s launch saw 500 volunteers from the various organisations involved forming a massive ‘human banner’ on London’s South Bank.

"We're facing a catastrophe, with hundreds of millions of people at risk from severe drought, starvation and disease, and by the middle of the century up to one third of land-based species may face extinction. The time has come to respond with the utmost urgency,” commented Ashok Sinha, Director of STOP CLIMATE CHAOS.

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