MPs are currently debating the hugely important Energy Bill, which will determine how this country is powered for many years to come.
Yesterday they didn't take the opportunity to amend the Bill so that generating electricity from unsustainable wood would never receive long-term public subsidies. We were disappointed of course, but there will be plenty more opportunities to do this and to stop the world’s forests becoming a high carbon fuel for UK power stations.
Today MPs will face another test to make sure this Bill gets behind green power.
Churches, power companies, NGOs, engineering companies, the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats all agree that Government should legislate for the power sector to be almost zero-carbon by 2030.
This could be done as part of the Energy Bill, and Tim Yeo MP has proposed an amendment that would achieve this. Today he has appealed to MPs to back him, saying it “will benefit the economy, climate, consumers and business alike. I urge my colleagues on all sides of the House to seize the opportunity today to set it into law”
Yet the Coalition Government continue to doggedly oppose it.
It can still be won though. We’re calling on MPs to do the right thing for our environment and to vote for the ‘green jobs’ amendment. You can help by tweeting and emailing key MPs and asking them to #Vote4CleanPower.