The Prime Minister The Rt Hon David Cameron MP 10 Downing Street London SW1A 2AA The Deputy Prime Minister The Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP Cabinet Office SW1A 2HQ 18th October 2012

Dear Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister,

As heads of organisations representing millions of people in many sectors across society, we are

writing to urge your government to stand fully behind the 2008 Climate Change Act and show that

the UK is a global leader in the effort to avoid dangerous climate change.

Both of you played a key role in passing the Climate Change Act in 2008, with a cross-party

consensus. It remains a world-leading piece of legislation, and a model to which other countries

have looked when developing their own climate policy.

Delivering a sustainable, low carbon economy at a time of global economic crisis is a defining

challenge of our generation. This year’s extreme weather events across the world and their

impacts on food production, wildlife and people - particularly the poorest, plus the ongoing historic

summer Arctic ice melt are a stark reminder as to why we must act to limit climate change. We

believe that your success or failure in leading this global effort will be a defining part of the

Coalition’s legacy for future generations.

This autumn provides two opportunities to ensure this legacy is positive: the passage of the

Energy Bill, and the provision to include emissions from international aviation and shipping in the

Climate Change Act. The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has provided clear advice as to

what is needed in both cases to ensure the right outcome for the climate and support the UK’s

promising green economy. The role of the CCC as an independent adviser to government was

established in the Act and no government to date has rejected the Committee’s advice.

We therefore call on you both to stand by your promise to lead the greenest government ever and

ensure the CCC’s advice on aviation and shipping is accepted and implemented. We also call on

you to ensure that the Energy Bill is brought into Parliament and passed with a clear target to

decarbonise electricity generation by 2030 in line with the Committee’s recommendations.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Bain

Director, CAFOD

David Nussbaum,

Chief Executive, WWF-UK

Loretta Minghella

Director, Christian Aid

Ruth Bond, Chair,

National Federation of Women’s

Institute

John Stewart, Chair

AirportWatch

Tom Bragg, Chair

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Richard Craft, Director

Climate Friendly Bradford on Avon

Peter Robinson, Secretary of the

Alliance for Jobs and Climate

Barbara Stocking,

Chief Executive, Oxfam GB

Mike Cla

Chief Executive, RSPB

Matthew Frost,

Chief Executive, Tearfund John Sauven,

Executive Director, Greenpeace

Andy Atkins, Executive Director,

Friends of the Earth England, Wales

and Northern Ireland

Isobel Tarr, Co

UK Youth Climate Coalition

Jehangir Malik, UK Country Director,

Islamic Relief

David Bull, Executive Director

UNICEF

Lorna Howarth, Development

Director,

Artists Project Earth

Marilyn Mason, Coordinator

British Humanist Association

Phil Thornhil National Coordinator,

Campaign against Climate Change

Paul Bodenham, Chair, Christian

Ecology Link

Chris Church, Chair, UK Low Carbon

Communities Network

Grace Onions, Treasurer,

Croydon Real Nappy Network

Saif Ahmad, Chief Executive,

Made in Europe

Isobel Braithwaite, National

Coordinator,

Healthy Planet UK

Mike Clarke,

Chief Executive, RSPB

John Sauven,

Executive Director, Greenpeace

Isobel Tarr, Co-Director,

UK Youth Climate Coalition

David Bull, Executive Director,

UNICEF-UK

Marilyn Mason, Coordinator

British Humanist Association

Paul Bodenham, Chair, Christian

Ecology Link

Grace Onions, Treasurer,

Croydon Real Nappy Network

Isobel Braithwaite, National

Coordinator,

Healthy Planet UK

Kirsty Smith Executive Director of

MRDF

Isabel Carter, Chair,

Operation Noah

Simon Ross, Chief Executive,

Population Matters

Steve Litchfield, Chair

Swindon Climate Action Network

Deborah Burton, Co-Founder,

Tipping Point Film Fund

Ian Williams, Executive Director,

Society for the Environment

Ion Holban, Founder,

The New Environmentalist Society

Liam Burns,,National President,

NUS

Louise Hazan, Campaigns Manager,

People & Planet

Victoria Chester, Chief Executive,

Plantlife

Susan James, Chair, Portsmouth

Climate Action Network

James Collins,

Executive,

Progressio

Helen Drewery, General Secretary,

Quaker Peace & Social Witness

Malcolm Shepher

Chief Executive,

Sustrans

Philip Mulligan, Executive Director

UNA-UK

Dr James Cooper, Head of

Government Affairs,

Woodland Trust

Alex Galloway, Chief Executive,

Concern Universal

David Hampton,

Executive Officer,

Carbon Coach

Liam Burns,,National President,

Victoria Chester, Chief Executive,

Plantlife

James Collins, Acting Chief

Executive,

Progressio

Malcolm Shepherd,

Chief Executive,

Sustrans

Dr James Cooper, Head of

Government Affairs,

Woodland Trust

David Hampton, Chief

Executive Officer,

Carbon Coach

James Ramsay, Chief Executive

Officer,

Responding to Climate Change

Andrew Warren, Director,

Association for the Conservation

of Energy

Simon Trace, Chief Executive

Officer,

Practical Action

Sarah Hirom, Trustee,

One World Week

Non coalition signatories

Juliet Davenport,

Founder and Chief Executive

Officer, Good Energy

cc. Rt. Hon George Osborne MPcc. Rt. Hon Edward Davey MP

Harfiyah Haleem, Trustee,

Islamic Foundation for Ecology

and Environmental Studies

Jonathan Meldrum

Coordinator,

Gabriel Hartnell, Chairman,

Students for a Free Tibet UK

John Bunzl, Trustee,

Simpol-UK

Kate Metcalf, Women’s

Environmental Network

Paul Dixon,

Founder, Internuncio

Dale Vince, Chief Executive

Officer, Ecotricity

Robert Hokin, Chief Executive

Officer, ecoConnect CIC

cc. Rt. Hon George Osborne MP

Jonathan Meldrum, Vice

Coordinator, Medsin-UK

John Bunzl, Trustee,

UK

Paul Dixon,

Founder, Internuncio

Robert Hokin, Chief Executive

Officer, ecoConnect CIC