UCU: Campaigning on Green Issues

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes:
1. UK government 2050 net zero targets.
2. UN Climate Conference (COP 30) in November in Amazonia in Brazil.
3. Insufficient progress by most countries, including UK, to meeting inadequate
climate targets
Congress agrees to work together with other trade unions. Just Transition
Partnership, Campaign Against Climate Change/Trade Union Group and Climate
Justice Campaign to:
a. Put pressure on government to provide additional funding for
b. just transition away from fossil fuels, including at Grangemouth, and to
renewables with no loss of jobs.
c. home insulation and transition away from fossil fuel heating.
d. Campaign against the third Heathrow runway
e. Use COP 30 to organise round climate issues.
Congress further agrees to:
i. Affiliate to Campaign Against Climate Change.
ii. Call on General Secretary to
• move UCU electricity to renewables-only supplier
• survey UCU operations and discuss with NEC implementation of measures
to reduce environmental impacts.