Our Plans to tackle the Climate Emergency

10 Dec 2019

thursday is polling day and your chance to vote Lib dem

Lib Dems ambitious spending plans to tackle the climate emergency

The UK must play its part in addressing climate change and cut greenhouse gases in every sector of the economy to achieve net-zero.

Lib Dem logo bird projected on blockwork

Remaining in the EU will help to ensure that the international community works together to tackle the climate emergency. We cannot lead the world on climate change action if we are outside the EU.

The Liberal Democrats have set out ambitious £100 billion spending plans to tackle the climate emergency, including generating 80% of our electricity from renewables and retrofitting all homes by 2030.

  • The Liberal Democrats plan includes the full costings of how the Liberal Democrats would spend £100 billion tackling the climate emergency and details on how they would cut greenhouse gases in every sector of the economy to achieve net-zero.

Plans in the Liberal Democrat's 'Our Plan to Tackle the Climate Emergency' include:

Renewable energy
Climate Change. Part three of our ‘Plan for the Future’
Ban Plastic Waste
  • Generating 80% of our electricity from renewables by 2030.

  • Retrofitting all homes - cutting energy bills - and targeting those in fuel poverty first by 2025.

  • Planting 60 million trees a year to increase UK forest cover.

  • Ensuring all new cars sold are electric by 2030.

  • Banning all non-essential non-recyclable single-use plastic within three years.

EU Climate Change

For the sake of our future and our children's future, vote for the party with a credible plan working with other nations to tackle the climate Emergency.

 

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