Climate and Ecological Emergency in Sutton

Extinction Rebellion Sutton have started a petition to Sutton Council requesting that they declare a climate and ecological emergency in Sutton. Please sign HERE The petition reads: 

(A call to Sutton)..council to acknowledge the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Special Report on Global Warming (October 2018). We request that Sutton Borough Council notes the London Assembly has declared a Climate Emergency, recognises the seriousness of the situation and welcomes further ambitious steps. We request that Sutton Borough Council acknowledges the action already taken by Bristol, Manchester and many other city councils around the UK and the world to declare and commit necessary resources to tackling a Climate Emergency. We urge you to declare a Climate Emergency, supported by specific plans of action to make Sutton carbon neutral by 2030, and to call on government to give Sutton Borough Council the powers and funding to make this possible. We ask that Sutton Borough Council, its partners and representatives work together to report back to council and petitioners within 6 months with specific proposals.

The Petition has made it onto the front page of the local Guardian ON LINE ARTICLE HERE

PETITION HERE

This petition will form the basis of a campaign focused on Sutton Council and also Viridor/Pennon to develop Beddington Farmlands and surrounding communities into the borough environmental epicentre to deliver ecological and climate recovery in the coreland of the Wandle Valley Regional Park and to provide ecological and environmental public engagement infrastructure to deliver borough wide behavioural change.

Part of the focus of the campaign will be the development of Beddington Farmlands Nature Reserve into a premier flagship reserve and the adequate mitigation of the Beddington Farmlands Incinerator.

The plan over the next few months is to deliver Sutton and Viridor a list of local community requests/demands and campaigning for those requests to be met by a strategy of (in strategic order) a)Negotiation and Consultation b) Activism and Direct Action and c) Non-violent Civil Disobedience (NVCD).

Extinction Rebellion Sutton will also be supporting the national campaign focused in the Capital in mid-April which is focused on Central Government and national strategic objectives.