Is climate on the menu at trade talks?
September 2021
September has been a busy month for the Reading group. We have concentrated on the trade campaign, ‘Don’t let corporate courts block climate action’. Jean Blaylock gave us an interesting talk, ‘Is Climate on the Menu at Trade talks?’ We had three stalls at various local events as well as a short action near the station on Global Justice Now’s Day of Action!
We have also been lobbying our two Reading MPs as we approach COP26. The group ‘Hope for the Future’ has been helping us to tailor our messages for each of our MPs. Alok Sharma is President of COP 26 so we have chosen subjects that have an international impact such as aviation, expanding local airports and the Cambo Oil Field; Matt Rodda is Shadow Minister of Pensions so we have been talking to him about pensions investments, insulation in pensioners houses and the National Investment Bank.
