Defending the Environment

Agenda

• Our approach to defending the environment

• Working together to defend the environment

• Challenges and opportunities of working together

• Our environment campaigning plan

Energy and Environment Steering Group

• Reduce business carbon footprint

• Reduce business waste going to landfill • Encourage employees to reduce their

impact on the environment

• Work with our members and customers to take action on climate change

Campaigning to defend the environment

• Low Carbon Community groups • Carrier bag free communities • Transition Towns • The Wave and ACT – Co-operatives

Europe• Earth Hour – WWF • Greener Together – Co-operatives UK • Gloucester Friends of the Earth

Challenges

• How to manage and coordinate all of these campaigns and groups?

• Is there a consistent strategy in place?

• How do we ensure that these campaigns are making a difference?

Opportunities • Set concise overall campaigning themes • Set targets of achievement for each

campaigning theme

• Monitor the success of each campaigning theme

• Work together to achieve the above

Midcounties environment campaign plan

• Lobby government and UN to reduce global emissions - Compulsory greenhouse gas reporting - Set fair and ambitious reduction targets

• Support local transition- Encourage the creation and development of transition groups - Encourage involvement in local transition

• Beyond the Brink – what are your doing to defend the environment? - Watch the Beyond the Brink documentary - Celebrate actions taken to defend the environment