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Prime Minister recognises charities’ climate change work

By Ben West ⋅ November 23, 2007 ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Share on Facebook

Prime Minister Gordon Brown this week praised the ‘excellent’ work of British charities involved in You, Me & The Climate in working to raise public awareness of climate change. In his first major speech on the issue since taking office, Brown singled out The National Trust, Oxfam and RSPB, praising their efforts to ‘engage their members’ and in ‘campaigning on environmental issues’.

Perhaps even more exciting, however, was his acknowledgement that more use had to be made of these organisation’s expertise to ‘mobilise individuals to take more action themselves’. This is, of course, a concept at the core of the You, Me & The Climate project, and in what it hopes to achieve over the coming year.

Within the same speech, The Prime Minister also announced that National Trust Director General, Fiona Reynolds (who spoke at You, Me & The Climate’s launch) will be playing a significant role in delivering greater engagement on climate change. Along with Ian Cheshire of hardware store B&Q, Fiona will be advising the government on how expertise can be shared between Non-governmental organisations, business and government in order to create greater public awareness and action on climate change.

You, Me & The Climate will be looking with great interest for further development, as well as congratulating all the charities involved for this long-due recognition of the need for charities and organisations to engage with people from across society to deal with climate change, the greatest challenge the World currently faces.