By Sigurd Reimers
On 9th July, twelve people from European Grandparents for Climate’s UK member organisation Our Grandchildren’s Climate joined a mass lobby of Members of Parliament (Deputies) in London, together with 5 000 others from 130 organisations. Moreover, Our Grandchildren’s Climate was mentioned for the first time in a Parliament debate on climate issues.
About half of all the MPs met their constituents on that 9th July to talk about the debate around passing a new Climate and Nature Act/Law. Under the UK political representation system 650 constituencies (areas) are each represented by one MP. The action was very well covered by the media.
Among many other regional newspapers, the South Wales Guardian reported: A group of grandparents from across the country, who recently formed a new group called Our Grandchildren’s Climate, were also in the crowd to campaign for pensions to divest away from fossil fuels.
Grandfather-of-four, Sigurd Reimers, 80, from Taunton in Somerset, said: “We’re campaigning on behalf of the next generation or the generation beyond who are facing a fairly dire future actually, so the least I can do is take a day trip up to London and join all these other people.”
Mr Reimers, who will be meeting his local MP Gideon Amos, said he is concerned about the future state of the climate and the country when his youngest grandchild, who is a baby boy, reaches his age.
Read the full article of the South Wales Guardian here.
