Our voting system lets our planet burn. We must democratise to decarbonise.
MP Claire Coutinho Minister for Energy Security and Net Zero, MP Steve Barclay Minister for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, MP Ed Miliband Shadow Ministers for Energy Security and Net Zero, MP Steve Reed Shadow Minister for Environment, Food and Rur
Compass has just launched this report, joined by a number of organisations and leaders in the fight against climate change in calling for a change to our voting system for the sake of climate. They include:
- Friends of the Earth
- Green New Deal Rising
- Greenpeace
- Rapid Transition Alliance
Read the full paper: Democratise to Decarbonise.
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We have come together as organisations and individuals committed primarily to issues of climate justice to ensure that democracy is now a first order issue.
The scale of the climate crises we now face is a consequence of a broken political system.
We need to change our political system - in particular our voting system.
We currently have First-Past-the-Post, a winner-takes-all system that locks us into a fossil-fuelled status quo, encourages short-termism, excludes huge swathes of voters, stifles new ideas and cooperative politics, allows parties to ignore national issues, and enshrines the influence of the already rich and powerful. This all makes policies building climate justice so much harder to pursue.
We need an approach to tackling the climate emergency that centres on empowering people all across our country. That is why the undersigned call on the government to endorse a change in our voting system as the cornerstone of action on the climate emergency.