Local lobbying

Why lobby?

Making climate-friendly personal choices is important.

However, we know that behavioural changes by individuals and their local communities cannot reduce carbon emissions on the scale scientists tell us is crucial to avoid catastrophic climate change.

National and Local Government and businesses must take action too.

How to lobby

Take a look at Market Drayton Climate Action’s dedicated Lobbying section on their website for inspiration, suggested content and contacts on who to lobby by topic.

Every month their members lobby those who can make changes at scale. This may be:

companies extracting fossil fuels
the banks and pension funds who invest in them
and other organisations with large carbon footprints.

You can also write directly to government leaders and potential leaders, nationally and regionally, holding them to account for climate promises broken and demanding the serious, strong actions we expect from them.

Join the lobbying network in Shropshire

Climate and environment groups across Shropshire are working together to share their lobbying efforts.

If you would like to be added to the What’s App group set up for this purpose, please email admin@zerocarbonshropshire.org to request this. This will require you to provide your mobile phone number.

Shrewsbury North West Relief Road

A key lobbying issue in Shropshire is the Shrewsbury North West Relief Road (NWRR)

The decision to proceed with the construction of the NWRR ignores both expert and popular objections. It will cancel out the carbon saving initiatives we need to reach net zero carbon. The proposal is both out of date and ecologically destructive.

Read more about the objections to the NWRR by clicking the button below: